Have you ever been held up or robbed?

[Nanoose]

Once I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and a guy came up to me with a butcher knife and asked for my wallet. So I took a pouch out of my breast pocked pulled out one of my darts and informed him that I was a dart champion then asked him if he wanted to see. (I wasn’t a dart champion but he must of believed me because he left) Cheers and happy week end!

Give me your money please by BTO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRIGW2-ks7A&feature=related

[ECO]

Two attempts on my last trip to Jamaica.... Once by Likke pickney when I was donating supplies to a school and once by a bad man who misjudged his chances of robbing me. I have a picture of the second one that was taken before the incident....no more details pon dis board.

[Wahoo]

I was basically robbed on the Hip Strip of Mobay on the second day of my first trip to Jamaica, but I mostly fault myself for being such a rube. In retrospect, I should've just broken the street hustler's jaw, but I didn't want to get the police involved.

[Nanoose]

Well this thread isn’t going like I thought because I figured the hold ups and robberies would have been in other Countries and not Jamaica (in my head Jamaica is a place you can go to and party like it was 1999 with no worries).
ECO – the part about you being held up well giving school supplies sent a chill up my back because recently I became involved with a charity that tries to help the youth of Jamaica (in part with education) and maybe there not as capable of taking care of their self’s and the much needed school supplies. So I suggest we set up a net work to insure that the supplies get through.
Wahoo if you would have broken their jaw you would of become part of the problem and not part of the solution on the other hand a person can quickly get over a broken jaw but if you take the time to crack or fracture their ribs they will think about you with ever breath for months. Cheers and happy week end!

[ECO]

Lol Nanoose, it was just a little boy who wanted what I had in my pocket.......not like I was bringing rice to starving kids in Africa and my convey got overtaken by bad men. With so many people having our idea of "nothing" and with them seeing us as having everything it paints a big sign on our backs "ATM-no card needed". Plus the principal lady karate chopped his arm while never breaking eye contact with me......I can't image what else she did once I left.....they still beat kids in Jamaica.

Keep up with your charity efforts, many down there really have nothing and what they do have they don't have enough of (school supplies, clothing, school uniforms, food, bedding, personal hygiene items, FOOD). This past trip I gave away most of my clothes and even my shoes, I wore flip flops home. <--excluding the clothes that I traded for wood carvings, music and other stuff I wanted.....wanted not needed like food or ganja.

BTW, if you ever make it down there to see the reactions of the kids when you show up in a rural area with school/art supplies it's priceless. It's also priceless every time you hear something like "why you not black".

[Nanoose]

Lol Nanoose, it was just a little boy who wanted what I had in my pocket.......not like I was bringing rice to starving kids in Africa and my convey got overtaken by bad men. With so many people having our idea of "nothing" and with them seeing us as having everything it paints a big sign on our backs "ATM-no card needed". Plus the principal lady karate chopped his arm while never breaking eye contact with me......I can't image what else she did once I left.....they still beat kids in Jamaica.

Keep up with your charity efforts, many down there really have nothing and what they do have they don't have enough of (school supplies, clothing, school uniforms, food, bedding, personal hygiene items, FOOD). This past trip I gave away most of my clothes and even my shoes, I wore flip flops home. <--excluding the clothes that I traded for wood carvings, music and other stuff I wanted.....wanted not needed like food or ganja.

BTW, if you ever make it down there to see the reactions of the kids when you show up in a rural area with school/art supplies it's priceless. It's also priceless every time you hear something like "why you not black".

So your saying that I should stop looking at this Likke pickney guy as a possible threat to Jamaican education for the time being? Cheers and happy week end!

[ECO]

Likke= little

Pickney= kid/kids

The threat is the cost of getting the rural kids to schools (expensive bike taxi routes for those that live too far away to walk), school uniforms that cost $$, over crowded classrooms, horrible teacher to student ratios, parents (in some cases) that never finished school and can not help their pickney with homework, hungry kids that have their mind on an empty stomach more than what they are being taught......I'm sure others can add to this list.

Also, what's the point of staying in school when you are old enough to take on a paying job? It's not like in the UK/US/CA where you finish school/college and get a good paying job......in some area there are no jobs or very little demand for educated workers. <--Not my opinion just repeating what I hear.

[Nanoose]

Likke= little

Pickney= kid/kids

The threat is the cost of getting the rural kids to schools (expensive bike taxi routes for those that live too far away to walk), school uniforms that cost $$, over crowded classrooms, horrible teacher to student ratios, parents (in some cases) that never finished school and can not help their pickney with homework, hungry kids that have their mind on an empty stomach more than what they are being taught......I'm sure others can add to this list.

Also, what's the point of staying in school when you are old enough to take on a paying job? It's not like in the UK/US/CA where you finish school/college and get a good paying job......in some area there are no jobs or very little demand for educated workers. <--Not my opinion just repeating what I hear.

Well I have been thinking that educational learning kits could help solve a few of the problems. There are free educational learning kits on the Internet for just about any subject and for all grades and they come with a teachers guide. So say there was a kid that wanted to learn grade five math but can’t get to school get them a grade 5 learning kit and the next year grade 6 and so on. I think they would also be helpful in the class room - with a lot of the learning kits the only cost would be the paper used for making copies and I would be willing to pay for some of it.
Learning is nearly impossible on an empty stomach - and the thought of what’s the use in learning when its not going to help my future doesn’t help.
(but maybe we can help make it easier some how or some way) Cheers!

[Nanoose]

Lol Nanoose, it was just a little boy who wanted what I had in my pocket.......not like I was bringing rice to starving kids in Africa and my convey got overtaken by bad men. With so many people having our idea of "nothing" and with them seeing us as having everything it paints a big sign on our backs "ATM-no card needed". Plus the principal lady karate chopped his arm while never breaking eye contact with me......I can't image what else she did once I left.....they still beat kids in Jamaica.

Keep up with your charity efforts, many down there really have nothing and what they do have they don't have enough of (school supplies, clothing, school uniforms, food, bedding, personal hygiene items, FOOD). This past trip I gave away most of my clothes and even my shoes, I wore flip flops home. <--excluding the clothes that I traded for wood carvings, music and other stuff I wanted.....wanted not needed like food or ganja.

BTW, if you ever make it down there to see the reactions of the kids when you show up in a rural area with school/art supplies it's priceless. It's also priceless every time you hear something like "why you not black".

Well being a bastard I would have to tell them that since I don’t know who my daddy is maybe I am a black man. (being a bastard I get to be all kinds of nationalities I was half Irish last week) Cheers!

[GhettoGurl]

I have been in Aruba for most of my "adult" life... Nobody would have dared to rob me there... I did have my car stolen BUT the people that did that did not know that car was mines... had they known.. they would have thought twice!!!

[Rose21]

Never been robbed but my mom was robbed. Two teen age boys snatch her pocket book on her way home from work. She had her glasses that she had bought the day before for $500.00 in her pocket book. I felt so bad for her, she was never the same after that incident. Now she's like an old lady everthing is tied up and tuck someplace lol.