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>Seriously to drift "a bit": "Safety wise" let's compare some rough
>numbers/estimates: DC, AFAIK has a kill-rate of over 500 people a year
>(which I think is more than all of The Netherlands has on a yearly basis),
>no idea what this is like in Italy, but I do know that in some cities I went
>to (Caracas, Lima) this rate is substantially higher. For Caracas I think
>the number is something like 50-100 per weekend or so, nice eh?
Man, I could care less about getting killed. Shit, if I'm dead, they can *
have* my camera gear. It's getting robbed that I don't like......
>Yet I've
>never had a single problem over there regarding theft, nor in Lima where I
>lived (and in both cities I _did_ bring my Oly gear to some of the parts
>where people are likely to get their belongings stolen).
Sure, they'd rather shoot you than rob you.
I think a good solid monopod would make an excellent club, eh?
--
Be Seeing You.
Dirk Wright
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