Calgary woman brutally assaulted in Mexican resort

[Tron_fdc]

Meh. I'll still go to Costa Rica over Mexico. Prices are relatively the same, but the surf is better, water is cleaner, and people are generally more laid back. The little town I spend a lot of time in is run by American hippies, so there's plenty of access to organic foods and healthy meal options.

I've always thought of Mexico as the place to go if you want to sit around a pool and drink all day when you're not lining up at the food troughs. I'm not really into that, so Costa has more to offer (to me anyways).

To each his own though. It depends on what you're looking for, and what you enjoy doing.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

Meh. I'll still go to Costa Rica over Mexico. Prices are relatively the same, but the surf is better, water is cleaner, and people are generally more laid back. The little town I spend a lot of time in is run by American hippies, so there's plenty of access to organic foods and healthy meal options.

I've always thought of Mexico as the place to go if you want to sit around a pool and drink all day when you're not lining up at the food troughs. I'm not really into that, so Costa has more to offer (to me anyways).

To each his own though. It depends on what you're looking for, and what you enjoy doing.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find many people who would choose Mexico over Costa Rica. They aren't in the same market IMO.

[normtwofinger]

Originally Posted by fotze

So as to further piss off gobsgraham, Costa Rica does intrigue me, but taking kids seems like it would be counter productive, true?

Not at all. There are tourists with kids here all the time.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

Meh. I'll still go to Costa Rica over Mexico. Prices are relatively the same, but the surf is better, water is cleaner, and people are generally more laid back. The little town I spend a lot of time in is run by American hippies, so there's plenty of access to organic foods and healthy meal options.

I've always thought of Mexico as the place to go if you want to sit around a pool and drink all day when you're not lining up at the food troughs. I'm not really into that, so Costa has more to offer (to me anyways).

To each his own though. It depends on what you're looking for, and what you enjoy doing.

Costa Rica is my next place to go for the reasons you mention, but Mexico has a lot of what you talk about as well. They just don't promote it very well.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by normtwofinger

Not at all. There are tourists with kids here all the time.

Well, that's disappointing to hear.

[normtwofinger]

Originally Posted by getbak

Well, that's disappointing to hear.

I hear Palm Spings and Florida is nice. Maybe you could find a nice old-folks home there for your next vacation.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by normtwofinger

I hear Palm Spings and Florida is nice. Maybe you could find a nice old-folks home there for your next vacation.

I was thinking more along the lines of Hedonism.

[Old Yeller]

Originally Posted by Thor

1.6 million Canadians visited Mexico last year, 6 were killed.

Yes, we should panic.

Especially now that Mexicans are apparently dressing up as tourists in order to beat women before trying to pin the crime on sleeping husbands.

[Flamenspiel]

I don't agree with comments that in terms of risk Mexico is the same as Canada or Aruba, nor do I suggest that people should not go there. Everyone has a different level of risk tolerance and that is factored into their travel plans.

Here is a link to the state department and the ministry of foreign affairs. Sorry if these were posted already. Personnel anecdotes are great to read particularly when reviewing places to stay and go, but in assessing risk I suggest taking professionally gathered governmental information into consideration as well. While the risks are quite a big range in the listed countries, its not exactly a list of Rick Steves Books:

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_p...w/tw_1764.html

http://www.voyage.gc.ca/countries_pays/menu-eng.asp

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by fotze

So as to further piss off gobsgraham, Costa Rica does intrigue me, but taking kids seems like it would be counter productive, true?

I enjoyed Costa Rica, great food and people. We did a rainforest tour and hit up a active volcano and then went to a big hotsprings.

[zuluking]

It'd be nice if some of our resident criminal psychologists that spent a number of pages accusing the husband would offer some sort of apology now that the facts are out. If you're okay with wild conjecture based on your Criminal Psychology 200 course and a few back seasons of CSI, you should be okay with saying that aforementioned wild conjecture was in poor taste and borderline defamation of character. Calgary is not that big a town.

[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by zuluking

It'd be nice if some of our resident criminal psychologists that spent a number of pages accusing the husband would offer some sort of apology now that the facts are out. If you're okay with wild conjecture based on your Criminal Psychology 200 course and a few back seasons of CSI, you should be okay with saying that aforementioned wild conjecture was in poor taste and borderline defamation of character. Calgary is not that big a town.

It looks like it's not the husband, but it wasn't "wild conjecture", as that scenario was much more likely than a "random" attack. You can pass along my apologies to the husband if he is indeed innocent. The interwebz is serious business.

[RedMileDJ]

Originally Posted by zuluking

It'd be nice if some of our resident criminal psychologists that spent a number of pages accusing the husband would offer some sort of apology now that the facts are out. If you're okay with wild conjecture based on your Criminal Psychology 200 course and a few back seasons of CSI, you should be okay with saying that aforementioned wild conjecture was in poor taste and borderline defamation of character. Calgary is not that big a town.

Wait...you want people to apologize on the internet? You must be new around here (the internet).

[Lt.Spears]

You dont go to Costa Rica to sit on a beach, you go there to Surf and do some eco-tourism.

[moon]

Originally Posted by zuluking

It'd be nice if some of our resident criminal psychologists that spent a number of pages accusing the husband would offer some sort of apology now that the facts are out. If you're okay with wild conjecture based on your Criminal Psychology 200 course and a few back seasons of CSI, you should be okay with saying that aforementioned wild conjecture was in poor taste and borderline defamation of character. Calgary is not that big a town.

I am not sure what the big deal of Calgary not being a big town or concerns this guy might read the board are.

People were talking about his possible guilt in a general "husbands are usually the guys who did it" way. Nobody once said Mr. Nabb is guilty because of something they knew/heard about him personally.

If anything all husbands should be pissed off because it was husbands, not Nabb personally, that had their character questioned.

[Hockeyguy15]

Question for people up in arms about the speculation of it being the husband....

Do you think he really cares what people of the internet are speculating? If it was me, and I was innocent I would have a little more on my mind than what some hockey board posters were speculating about me. An innocent man would be more concerned about his wife, and rightfully so.

Oh and I would expect that the police and cops first thought was that it was domestic abuse. They aren't doing their job if they don't suspect everyone.

[troutman]

Family forced to defend husband of Mexico beating victim
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/20.../19295741.html

[Old Yeller]

My wife was just beaten within an inch of her life, every bone in her face is broken and she just had a setback where she's developed pneumonia... I better check Calgarypuck to see what they think of my character.

[zuluking]

Originally Posted by Red-Mile-DJ

Wait...you want people to apologize on the internet? You must be new around here (the internet).

Thus the "It'd be nice" part. I wasn't really expecting it, but it'd be nice. Vlad summed it up nicely - "I'm only sorry if you know someone involved, but not really cuz it's the internet."

[YYC in LAX]

I cringe everytime I see a picture of the husband. Not because I think he's guilty; in fact I defended him, but because he just looks so goofy.