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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I always know it is a scam when a young beautiful woman acts interested in me.
Haha. One of my boys has had a couple of close escapes.
“Wookin’ pa nub.” Must be from the Velvet Jones “I want to be a ho” routine. Timeless.
Avoid Colombia! Don’t let any more into the country!
But that would be a sane policy, and there is little sanity to be found any more in the USA.
Note to self: Do not leave my red state where our home is in the middle of nowhere and Canada is within eyesight.
A man used to be able to get married to a decent woman.
He had a job without a college degree.
He could be the sole provider, and get merit based positional and monetary gains.
His wife could raise the children.
He could afford a house.
It’s 2024…
Nominees for the 2023 Darwin awards.
Thank you. People misspelling the country of Colombia is one of my pet peeves.
Mothers know. Can't tell you how many of the sons of my women friends have been keel-hauled through soul-destroying divorces from utterly frivolous females who take the house, the kids and most of their money over trivialities. It's disheartening for any mother of sons.
Stay out of mexico, central america and south america
doesn’t sound like the “American” was interested in marriage. More likely he was interested in a pump and dump. So I don’t feel too bad for him.
Looking for love in all the wrong places?
All true. If you are an older man, I don't think you truly understand the dating scene in America. Right now, there's no incentive for an American man to "settle down". So that's why an American man is only interested in a pump and dump.
So why don't we change our laws to support marriage?
The Bush family, free traitors, assorted neoCON scum like Romney, along with their friends, the Democrats, did what was best for the 1% and the foreign hordes, all at the expense of normal, main street Americans.
Open borders, free trade, and “diversity” were all vastly more important to the policy makers than 1950s peak America, which has been mercilessly mocked by their psychophants in the media.
Diversity is the national religion and can not be questioned. It’s so important that you just have to give up normal family life and a living wage. Sorry folks.
The dating scene was bad 20 years ago. I can’t even imagine how filthy and depraved it is now.
Tell our leaders to stop worshipping diversity and maybe we can bring back some common sense Christian values to America like laws that support marriage.
Do Not trust the cab driver. Do Not tell the cab driver anything about yourself.
District of Columbia?
Columbia, MD?
British Columbia?
All of our institutions are corrupted. Schools. Churches. Media. Courts. You name it.
The Mormons are wacky. But they're doing a lot of things right. Close knit community. A strong social circle. Their society encourages young folks to get married and to stick together and raise families. If you decide to get a divorce, they'll basically disown you so you'll have to move out of Utah and never talk to your family again.
Why did Buckwheat wash his close in Tide? Because it was too cold out-tide!
You are OK.
Truthfully: Many leaders have betrayed allegiance, duty, sworn oath of office and country.
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