Safety

[germanb68]

You should pay attention to not be a victim of some variant of EL CUENTO DEL TIO.

 

[lamarque]

Hí there,

I am planning to travel to BA next month but some of the stuff I've been reading in the forums has almost put me off. If there is a major risk of getting mugged, I'd prefer to stay away. Does physique help? I'm middle-aged, 6ft 1ins, 13 stone and I'm not in bad nick for my age.

I don't plan to go anywhere outside the safer areas and I usually stay in my hotel anyway in the evenings when I'm on trips.

For example, I was in Manhattan in 2011 and I ddn't feel the slightest quiver.

What do you think, folks, should I risk going to BA?

Are you for real? or this is just a joke lol
Man the city is more than safe to do turism in it, just take the normal precautions and pay atention for pick pockters and you will have a great time

 

[NoseyParker]

I have lived her for a year now, I thought all was ok, street safe, savvy, and always alert. Unluckily I was robbed twice in a week.... The first time not so scary my car was broken into in abasto the second time I was outside my apartment waiting for a cab walking to the corner and three men pulled up in a car behind me, grabbed me, ripped off my top and stole me very non expensive looking purse..... I was obviously a lone female with victim written across my forehead, ladies beware of black cars with blacked out windows driving slowly.......

 

[Joe]

My experience is that the people that get in trouble are the one that have put themselves at a disadvantage by being intoxicated or high. If you like to go out partying late at night, getting wasted and lost in a strange neighborhood then your going to run into trouble in many parts of the world.

 

[Farenheit]

My experience is that the people that get in trouble are the one that have put themselves at a disadvantage by being intoxicated or high. If you like to go out partying late at night, getting wasted and lost in a strange neighborhood then your going to run into trouble in many parts of the world.

What rubbish, so that French tour guide killed at the Falklands monument was high on drugs was he? It is dangerous here. I was at home with my son when a man waving a gun broke into the house. My friend was in an office armed robbery, and our architect was tied up for 2 hours in his Palermo apartment with a gun held to his head. David Glen, one of the baexpats veterans had his Candyland store robbed and even posted the video on youtube. If you don't like the truth, stick your head back in the sand.

 

[Joe]

What rubbish, so that French tour guide killed at the Falklands monument was high on drugs was he? It is dangerous here. I was at home with my son when a man waving a gun broke into the house. My friend was in an office armed robbery, and our architect was tied up for 2 hours in his Palermo apartment with a gun held to his head. David Glen, one of the baexpats veterans had his Candyland store robbed and even posted the video on youtube. If you don't like the truth, stick your head back in the sand.

I should have said "most people that get in trouble". I haven't lived in BA for a couple of years and from your post it sounds like it's halfway to being Somalia! Have these incidents you referred to happened recently? I did a Google search "French tour guide killed at Falklands monument" and it turned up nothing but maybe it wasn't covered in English press sources.

 

[allcraz]

I should have said "most people that get in trouble". I haven't lived in BA for a couple of years and from your post it sounds like it's halfway to being Somalia! Have these incidents you referred to happened recently? I did a Google search "French tour guide killed at Falklands monument" and it turned up nothing but maybe it wasn't covered in English press sources.

https://www.google.c...iw=1517&bih=741

All of us who were here at the time took that news very hard, I think. It was less than a year ago. These incidents don't make me fear for my life in BA. They just make me realize that these things will happen from time to time and I need to be as rational and aware as I can be.

 

[Iznogud]

What rubbish, so that French tour guide killed at the Falklands monument was high on drugs was he?

Not aware of any Falklands monument. There must be a mistake.

That tragedy at Plaza San Martin was a freak event and shockingly not representative of what typical crime is all about here.
Retiro and other train and bus terminal areas concentrate all kinds of marginal folk Not the safest places specially for people who stand out as potential victims.
We must be aware at all times that life does not go on forever and the unexpected and unthinkable can take it away or ruin it for us in a blink.

 

[Farenheit]

Joe, I was robbed in 2011. My architect was robbed 6 months ago. In fact, workers were attacked at the house he's building in provincia too, the year before. These robberies are happening all the time. I know of countless stories through friends (the client of one was car-jacked in the last 3 months and another friend had to change his keys 6 months ago because someone in his apartment block was mugged at gun-point for their car).

 

[nlaruccia]

I should have said "most people that get in trouble". I haven't lived in BA for a couple of years and from your post it sounds like it's halfway to being Somalia! Have these incidents you referred to happened recently? I did a Google search "French tour guide killed at Falklands monument" and it turned up nothing but maybe it wasn't covered in English press sources.

There was a lot of press about the incident of the French photographer being stabbed.

http://stayingsafeabroad.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/argentina-french-photographer-42.html

http://news.brunei.fm/2012/02/09/french-photographer-stabbed-in-front-of-buenos-aires-falklands-memorial/

http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/general-talk/174902-photographer-stabbed-death.html

http://jpgmag.com/photolinks/display/1002/

http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfromargentina/french-tourist-killed-in-plaza-san-martin/

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11470333-french-photographer-murdered-in-buenos-aires

http://en.mercopress.com/2012/02/08/french-photographer-stabbed-to-death-when-taking-pictures-of-buenos-aires-malvinas-memorial

http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-685833.html

http://topic.worlds-luxury-guide.com/photo/01CZa9i0S3c7u?q=Buenos+Aires