View Poll Results: Do you feel less safe in Dubai now than you did 12 months ago?
I feel less safe
5
41.67%
I feel more safe
1
8.33%
No change
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Do you feel safe?
Jun 25th 2006, 8:26 am
#1
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Do you feel safe?
Recently, there have been anumber of stories like this:
http://www.7days.ae/2006/06/23/help-...y-husband.html
How does that make you feel?
http://www.7days.ae/2006/06/23/help-...y-husband.html
How does that make you feel?
Jun 25th 2006, 9:13 am
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Re: Do you feel safe?
Originally Posted by BurpusMe
Recently, there have been anumber of stories like this:
http://www.7days.ae/2006/06/23/help-...y-husband.html
How does that make you feel?
http://www.7days.ae/2006/06/23/help-...y-husband.html
How does that make you feel?
Jun 25th 2006, 10:21 am
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Re: Do you feel safe?
It is scarey!
Also - what about the story in Gulf News about how the roads in Dubai are getting (even) worse. This stuff makes me wonder about the "overall" safety of the place.. is it getting better or worse?
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10048912.html
Also - what about the story in Gulf News about how the roads in Dubai are getting (even) worse. This stuff makes me wonder about the "overall" safety of the place.. is it getting better or worse?
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10048912.html
Originally Posted by Malteser
Gawd...thats very scarey.. :scared:
Last edited by BurpusMe; Jun 25th 2006 at 10:28 am.
Jun 25th 2006, 11:10 am
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Re: Do you feel safe?
Originally Posted by BurpusMe
It is scarey!
Also - what about the story in Gulf News about how the roads in Dubai are getting (even) worse. This stuff makes me wonder about the "overall" safety of the place.. is it getting better or worse?
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10048912.html
Also - what about the story in Gulf News about how the roads in Dubai are getting (even) worse. This stuff makes me wonder about the "overall" safety of the place.. is it getting better or worse?
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10048912.html
Here we are still a bit safer tho we do hear the occassional horifying story. Of course its rarely on the news and its spread by word of mouth. All in all its still safer than any other country in the end. Well at least for the time being
Jun 25th 2006, 1:58 pm
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Re: Do you feel safe?
I just can't shake the "creeps" when I read articles like this:
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10047245.html
On the other hand - there are also articles like this:
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10042456.html
It's difficult to know what to think.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10047245.html
On the other hand - there are also articles like this:
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10042456.html
It's difficult to know what to think.
Jun 25th 2006, 2:06 pm
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Re: Do you feel safe?
Originally Posted by BurpusMe
I just can't shake the "creeps" when I read articles like this:
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10047245.html
On the other hand - there are also articles like this:
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10042456.html
It's difficult to know what to think.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10047245.html
On the other hand - there are also articles like this:
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles.../10042456.html
It's difficult to know what to think.
We will never know the truth. They will always hide facts from us
Jun 26th 2006, 5:29 am
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Re: Do you feel safe?
Originally Posted by BurpusMe
Recently, there have been anumber of stories like this:
http://www.7days.ae/2006/06/23/help-...y-husband.html
How does that make you feel?
http://www.7days.ae/2006/06/23/help-...y-husband.html
How does that make you feel?
http://www.7days.ae/2006/06/26/i-won...thout-him.html
And the bad news is he was found in a suitcase in the desert.
2 people were arrested.
Two people have been arrested - a man, who was carrying a British passport and a woman of African origin. Police say they have evidence that the couple had communicated with Steiner via the Internet and arranged to meet him. They believe that the couple invited Steiner to their home, where they killed him.
There's something a bit fishy about this, all is not as it appears.
Whether we'll ever get to know the real truth is a different question though.
Jun 26th 2006, 7:32 am
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Re: Do you feel safe?
They believe the body is that of Martin Stiener but DNA tests have yet to confirm this .
Jun 26th 2006, 7:36 am
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Re: Do you feel safe?
Originally Posted by Heart of gold
They believe the body is that of Martin Stiener but DNA tests have yet to confirm this .
That's once the animals had had a bit of a nose and munch at it!
Jun 26th 2006, 7:37 am
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Re: Do you feel safe?
Originally Posted by MJC
Can you imagine the state (and smell) of a body, in a suitcase, in the desert FOR UPTO 11 DAYS.
That's once the animals had had a bit of a nose and munch at it!
That's once the animals had had a bit of a nose and munch at it!
Yes I can. And the only way to get the true identity is for DNA testing, Im sure his wife is hoping that it is not him.
Jun 26th 2006, 8:04 am
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Re: Do you feel safe?
Originally Posted by MJC
Well the good news is he's been found.
http://www.7days.ae/2006/06/26/i-won...thout-him.html
And the bad news is he was found in a suitcase in the desert.
2 people were arrested.
There's something a bit fishy about this, all is not as it appears.
Whether we'll ever get to know the real truth is a different question though.
http://www.7days.ae/2006/06/26/i-won...thout-him.html
And the bad news is he was found in a suitcase in the desert.
2 people were arrested.
There's something a bit fishy about this, all is not as it appears.
Whether we'll ever get to know the real truth is a different question though.
Emirates Today quoted police as saying it is him, "...facial features are still recognisable..." however they added DNA tests would confirm his identity.
They also claimed he met the couple through the internet, met them in a mall then went back to their apartment.
Sounds very fishy to me!
Jun 26th 2006, 8:14 am
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Re: Do you feel safe?
Originally Posted by NorthernLad
...They also claimed he met the couple through the internet...
Jun 26th 2006, 8:47 am
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Re: Do you feel safe?
Originally Posted by BurpusMe
Which site did they meet on? Britishexpats? 3xpatgossip? Souq.com? Dubizzle? Perhaps the dreaded expatriates.com? If no, then maybe expatmoms.com? dubaiadventuremums.com?
Jun 26th 2006, 9:30 am
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Re: Do you feel safe?
:scared: it is scarey and yes it is fishy
Still noone deserves to die that way. I hope they get what they deserve
Still noone deserves to die that way. I hope they get what they deserve
Jul 2nd 2006, 4:54 pm
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Re: Do you feel safe?
The crime rate has always been higher than reported - it's just that it was always crimes in the low paid communities - so no-one cared.
Now some rich people are also dying...shock horror!
The road death rate will keep rising until the government realise that getting police chiefs to say "it's appalling that so many people die, we will crack down" won't cut the death rate.
Now some rich people are also dying...shock horror!
The road death rate will keep rising until the government realise that getting police chiefs to say "it's appalling that so many people die, we will crack down" won't cut the death rate.
