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Mine was a friend actually disappearing for entire night in Ukraine. He was in a night club and he disappeared. We reported it to the police etc. They told us he might've been kidnapped or something.

In the end it turned out he actually got drunk and slept in a toilet where he closed himself.

Croatia. I was running across Split with my then Croatian gf from random ustasha's cause they heard my accent. Thank God, I ran onto police station or I could've been dead now.

18/11 experience, would do it again

>>2807585
true Croats seem to be incredibly hostile towards Serbs. Is it the same way in Serbia tho

>>2807585
Like dogs they were chasing you because you were running from them, lol

This is so innocuous but I still think about it. I was on the Turkish coast. It was windy with light rain and off season, so all the establishments with seaside bars and restaurants had been taken them down. You could still access the foundations, so I was having fun exploring. Several of them jutted out from a piers, 20 or so meters into the sea. I was drunk and not paying attention to my surroundings. I didn’t realize how wet the pier was; wetter than it should have been just from the rain. It very quiet, calm, and I was all alone. No one wanted to be out in this weather. Then I heard a Turkish man screaming at me. I thought it was the owner of the bar. Whatever. I slowly moved away and climbed off the pier to chat with him. As I did, it happened. huge wave shot in. From nowhere. It eveloped everything, smashed into the pier with force and shot back out to sea as quick as it came. Oh yeah, my wife was waiting for me there and she can’t swim, not that it would have mattered given the force. He was the only person we’d seen in about 30 minutes. Closest thing I’ve experienced to an angel.

I booked the cheapest hostel in Stockholm and it was full of black Muslims. I had two Somalians in my room who looked like they wanted to murder me and a friendly Nigerian who woke me up in the middle of the night, completely drunk, asking for money. There were no windows in the room and honestly, the entire thing looked like giant fire hazard.

I was in Philadelphia seeing a band. We were standing outside and a homeless friendly black dude walks up and says "It's my birthday, can I get $2." I said, "if you can tell me what day it is, I'll give you the money'. He says, "It's October 12th. It's my birthday". I have him the $2. This white dude pulls out a gun and sticks it in the homeless guys face and demands the money. The black guys backs away and he pistol whips him in the face. Then another guy walks up with a gun and cocks it and points it at the homeless dude. The homeless guy drop the $2 and walks away and the two white dudes pocket the cash. I went in and got my buddy and we left. Everyone in our group also got food poisoned that night from eating at White Castle and 2 people ended up hospitalities with salmonella. One dude Joe almost died from it. Philadelphia sucks.

>>2807666
Some Thai street vendors began yelling at me when I turned to step down the concrete beach wall in Cha-am. I ignored them and promptly my feet shot out from under me and my ass went bump bump bump down three huge algae-covered steps. The vendors said something to the effect of "we tried to warn him! he ignored our shouts!" I got up and walked away.
>>2807721
how do two dudes pocket a single $2 bill?

>>2807760
Don't criticize the story, it's not meant to be real.

>>2807764
It was absolutely real. I've been to Philly 5 times in my life and had 4 serious encounters with crime. We went in a group once 2guys split off and got robbed on south street at knife point. We were approached by crack dealers. We had a guy try to hit us with his car while we were biking. We had the gun/food poisoning incident. We had an artist pull out a hammer and threaten us on the street. Philly is the fucking worst.

>>2807666
similar story. Honestly I had so many near death experiences in my life I'm surprised I'm alive, but the closest 2 calls was because of water.

>Be me, kid on a ferry in the north atlantic ocean, probably 9, a notably more rarted than most kids my age
>we're talking, icebergs, blue whales and crashing waves north atlantic
>Ask my mom if we could take a walk on the deck
>Wind was HOWLING so fast, it was the kind of wind that distorts your skin
>In hindsight, my mom has some weird form of OCD/overmedicated for it where she's insanely overprotective yet never realizes when I'm rationally in danger, only irrational fears like food poisonings or whatever
>So my mom clearly doesn't recognize any danger
>Start opening up my coat and doing "parachute" when I jump and the wind pushes me back a bit.
>Mom and cousins (also my age) think its funny
>Keep doing it
>Make a "joke" that the wind pushes me down and roll across the deck
>Wind is actually pushing me when I start rolling, can't stop.
>Back hits squarely on a support pole where the lifelines are (the guards on the side of a boat)
>just a rudimentary system, with iron poles and 2 sidelong chains, cause its the 90s
>would have rolled right under the chains into the northern atlantic if my back didn't hit the pole
>Tell my mom we should go inside or something or smarten up and just act normal til the walk is done, don't remember

story#2
>Early 20s, still rarted
>go swimming on a beach in the south of spain, its completely calm
>swim out stupidly far, like hundreds of metres
>waves pick up, like 8 feet
>don't fight it, just float there, manage to stay calm
>waves calm down, I swim back and I'm fine

>>2807849
Drug tourism is always a bad idea, anon. My night at a bar in Tuxtepec de Oaxaca ended with a drunken robbery attempt at 3 AM in a residential alley on the way to "a dude who might have some weed". The police also stopped by as I was stumbling back to my room. I told them the name of the hotel and they wished me a good night. Earlier I had met a weed dealer in the bar who wanted 400 pesos ($22 at the time) for some weed. I had bumped some coke off a key and knocked over a glass of beer. The weed dealer got very angry that I was unwilling to go through with the sale.

Tuxtepec was one of the cheapest cities I encountered in Mexico.

>>2807583 (OP)
when I was in my teens I went out to several places on a cruise with family, one of which being Port-Au-Prince, DR. we stayed strictly in the tourist areas and tours, but only one of them took you through some of the safer main streets, though not very far from favela-ish buildings. I remember seeing the look on the faces of the locals who tried to keep up with the tour vehicle we were in. the look of sheer desperocity to sell anything was something that locals in no other country I've been to have topped yet. in addition, we got told some mecabre stories of past tourists and were advised not to eat or drink anything bought at all. I still bought a coca-cola anyways like a retard, and it was one of the best I've drunken in my life.

>>2807585
>split
there’s your problem. ja sam sa sjevera i isti kurac mi se desio kad su čuli da govorim kajkavski
>>2807599
shut the fuck up

>>2807711
Anon I would have left. Why didn't you leave!

>>2808070
I'm retarded, it was La Ramona, Dominican Republic

Me and the buddies did a guys trip down to Colombia a while ago. It's just a constant feeling of unease everywhere you go, like you are being sized up.

In Bogota, we are in the downtown historic area near the plaza. We walk further than we should to try and hail an Uber. It's getting dark. Shady dudes start following us. We have to duck into two different shops to get them to go away. We get a local shopkeeper to call a taxi (never get in a random taxi in Colombia, especially as a Gringo foreigner) since we are told we are in a dangerous area and Ubers won't accept fares there.

In Cartagena (outside walled old town), we watch two American tourists a few feet away from us get robbed in the middle of the street. A thug hiding behind a parked car runs up on them, rips the necklace off the guy's neck and goes running down the street. An angry local vendor pulls out a machete, starts yelling loudly and chases him down the street, slashing the machete on the street for effect.

In old town Cartagena, everyone is trying to sell us coke and there are hookers everywhere. But this is Colombia. What did you expect? I watch a drug deal in a local park. Dealer is not even hiding the cocaina. A couple minutes later, two cops show up on a motorbike. They go up to the guy, confiscate his drugs and drive off again.

My buddy gets the bright idea to score a date with a female tourist cop. He later tells us she keeps trying to lead him down secluded dark streets, and not with good intentions - like it's a setup. Same for when we go to get our Uber. She's insisting on us getting into this one specific cab and wants to know the name of our hotel. The street is dark and there are young thuggish dudes sizing us up nearby. We pray for safety. Our Uber finally shows up and we get out of there fast.

Crime is a serious problem there and you have to watch your back bc it seems that everywhere you go, even the cops there are looking to rob you.

>>2808169
I don't get Colombia, I'm a white guy who's learned spanish pretty fluently but haven't been to a latam country yet. I hear stories like yours and yet I also hear stories from my boomer coworkers who went to colombia and said it was safer than USA.

I'm almost MORE worried I'd find trouble if I speak spanish than not. I also have a phobia of latinos low key because my latina ex almost murdered me. Idk, they just don't value life.

I feel like I'd never go to colombia without a fellow street smart friend, trouble is, my friends are not street smart.

>>2807666
Had a slightly similar experience. I was snorkeling in Malaysia and having a good time. Suddenly a guy on the beach starts yelling something at me. Had no clue what it was. Then my girlfriend starts yelling and saying he's telling me I'm too far out. I really didn't feel like I was that far, but once I started swimming towards shore, I realized I wasn't getting any closer. I was being washed out into the ocean pretty fast. I went all the fuck out and put all my energy into swimming as hard as I could and eventually got to a point where my girlfriend could help pull me back to the beach.

This was on a tiny ass island with absolutely nobody else around. If I'd gotten washed away, nobody would've seen me at all and I would've died on a perfectly sunny and warm day.

>>2808502
>I don't get Colombia, I'm a white guy who's learned spanish pretty fluently but haven't been to a latam country yet. I hear stories like yours and yet I also hear stories from my boomer coworkers who went to colombia and said it was safer than USA.
Colombia is a country that "recently" (10 years ago) finally came out of 60 years of constant civil war. So there are armed private security dudes everywhere in the capital and the cities. So if you are a fat boomer, that barely leaves the nice areas of town, it will be incredibly safe for you.

However, the kind of coomer anons that are on these boards, are not like that. They are adventurous because they want to find the best cooms. So they go to places like Medellin and Cartagena and go into the rough shithole neighbourhoods and experience the real Colombia.

>I'm almost MORE worried I'd find trouble if I speak spanish than not. I also have a phobia of latinos low key because my latina ex almost murdered me. Idk, they just don't value life.
There are some Latin American countries that are safer than America. However, Colombia is def not one of them, it's one of the more dangerous ones.

>I feel like I'd never go to colombia without a fellow street smart friend, trouble is, my friends are not street smart.
If you stick to the resort areas and fancy areas Colombia is safe as fuck, like your boomer friends told ya. Trouble only finds you if you wander around random streets.

>>2807583 (OP)
Went to Gary Indiana once and St Louis.

>>2808502
I never got drunk in Colombia. I never went out past 11 PM. I would walk any street once, but there were many streets I wouldn't walk down a second time. It was 2020, so mask mandates and nighttime curfews were enforced in many Colombian cities. These days, a leftist guerrilla is ruling the country, so it's doubtful you'd see police shoving around bums in the park like I saw back in 2020. They feel emboldened to do whatever they want.

Also, a lot of Americans dress in old rags when they travel. Colombians disdain poor-looking gringo vagabonds. You won't get dates and you won't get mugged either.

>>2808632
Looking like a poor, diseased leper is good safety camouflage no matter where you go in the world.

>>2808546
>If you stick to the resort areas and fancy areas Colombia is safe as fuck
Wouldn't old town Cartagena fit this description? Asking as I would like to visit with y kids.

>>2809106
Probably safe if you are there during the day and not at dusk.

However for a trip with kids that involves wandering around town and not living in fear of making the wrong turn, I would consider a safer Latin American destination. Maybe Costa Rica, Argentina or Chile.

Either that, or going wherever but staying mostly in your resort.

>Mugged at gunpoint in Istanbul.
>laugh.jpeg
>refuse to give money
>leader of gang shoots wall next to my head
>laugh harder and say come and get it
>they run off

>>2809119
>>2808546
why not Peru instead? Macchu Picchu + great looking tutors too