Posted on 01/20/2024 7:14:10 AM PST by DoodleBob
BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Minnesota comedian Tou Ger Xiong had fallen in love with the expat lifestyle in the vibrant Colombian city of Medellín: stock trading by day, fine dining and dance clubs by night.
He was one of a rising number of Americans and foreign nationals who began flocking to the country after the Covid-19 pandemic, some on new digital nomad visas introduced to help spur a growing startup scene.
But hours after prosecutors say he went out on a date on Dec. 10, he was calling family and friends back home to wire him $2,000, telling them he had been kidnapped and held for ransom. The next day, police found Xiong’s lifeless body with multiple stab wounds and bruises after being tossed off a 260-foot cliff along the side of a stream in a lush, wooded area of a city renowned for its eternal spring climate and rolling green hills.
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Xiong is one of at least eight Americans who died in Colombia’s second-largest city in November and December amid dozens of cases involving male tourists who were held captive and robbed, often after meeting women on dating apps, Medellín officials said. The deaths, some after the victims were drugged, and a spike in attacks against foreigners led the U.S. Embassy in Colombia to issue an alert this month urging caution for U.S. citizens meeting people through online dating platforms.
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In some of the deaths, which the U.S. Embassy deemed suspicious, American men were found dead in their hotel rooms or rented apartments after outings with local women. In other attacks, thugs robbed and killed them on the street while they were on dates…. Others are believed to have died from mixing heavy drinking and the kind of mind-altering drugs gangs slip into drinks to incapacitate a victim before robbery.
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You get what you ask for. Asking to be drugged & robbed or worse will likely get you just that.
Bet she wasn’t, Fee Tines A Mady.
Why would someone spend lots of dough abroad to get robbed and killed when you can simply go to Chicago?
Back when comedy was good.
Maybe I’ll listen to Delirious or Raw for fun later.
Certainly not.
I loved when Buckwheat was shot.
Don’t worry, Columbia’s coming to you, if you’re in the US.
I still laugh as much at Delirious now as I did back then...
“Hey boy, you look mighty cute in them jeans.....”
And Texxon was there!
To add insult to injury his date was probably a tranny.
Unfortunately, you are probably right.
There is a war going on there
I never let that get in the way when young though admittedly
My Colombian time was 80s
Pablo time
I think it’s actually better now
Not for this guy obviously
Not unless you don’t mind a close Burma shave...
Freepers are too old to realize how screwed up young American women are now
It’s horrible
I blame guys looking elsewhere at all
Ha, Mr. T was great.
An aside-It’s not that I’m getting older, it’s that our society truly sucks now.
Yeah, more and more when people give you love advice. It makes you want to ask, “any advice on how to catch bone cancer”?
Lol
This is why I’m on freerepublic
My (Ill-advised)friend who married a Colombiana remarked that there are basically two types of Colombian women: those with breast implants, and those saving up for breast implants.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that….
I hear Pablo’s hippos are running rampant.
I only vacation to Europe or islands where Europeans rule, or still have influence.
I would like to visit Japan though.
You need to laugh if we’re heading towards bad times. :)
DONT BLAME
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