Criminal incidents of latvian girls with foreign tourists, or The safety of relationship

Hi Guest,

What a great statement and so general......As stated in another post, just be clever and you will not have any problem.......

Lance, I don't suggest you go anywhere near the Police. Latest news is that two students were stopped in Old Town and asked if they wanted a ride to their hotel or the Police Station. If they approach you, and they are becoming menacing tell them you are going to call the US or your own Embassy. There have been isloated incidents where drunken tourists have been beaten up and their wallets taken from them by a male, dressed in a Police uniform in the Old Town (decide for yourslef if he was a police officer). What you need to do is to register a complaint with your Embassy, then have them take it up with the Police and insist on a formal complaint being made to the Latvian Government. Also a medical student (mature student) was hassled by a Policeman in Old Riga area - the scam here is that they offer you a price to walk or a free taxi ride to visit the Police Station. One officer told a reliable source that the Salaries were so bad that they had to do this to survive, so you can to a degree understand their behaviour. I was in a taxi a number of years ago, and the taxi driver was pulled over, told to step into a white transit type Police van where he paid 20 Lats, and he was then let go. He was stopped because he was told his "taxi sign" was not straight. I could not see that it was lopsided in any way. It is not in the interests of certain individuals to clean up the Old Town , since it would lose substantial fraudulently earned revenue from tourists. A recent minor incident I changed $500 in a small bureau de change which had slot machines inside it (Old Town). The rate indicated on the board outside was not the price given. When I suggested it was a mistake it ended up in a rather burly gentleman escorting me out into the street. Of course I was not given a receipt and so there was nothing I could do. Always use the banks (the best ones are Swedbank, Nordic). Do not use the Latvian banks, they are a law unto themselves. But having said all this I don't suppose it's different in anywhere else in Eastern Europe.

There's no more problem than in your country..............you must be carfull thats all...............but latvian women are so beautiful and sociable.....................

is it great danger if i walk alone at night ?there are dangerous thieves on the road?

As anywhere else, you can't be sure to be safe while walking on the night. Thieves are not reporting where they hide and when. They just rob.

i am trying to find a friend to come with me i am worry about safety, is better to be with friends company then by myself, beside i might get bored walking the streets all alone...

Hola Cuabnito!
Send me a private message. Maybe we can make a joint trip to Latvia.
I agree travelling alone could be boring

There is also a good and nice woman dancing in a strip club(for example)

I believe Latvian girls are nice and friendly , I have been shoked about that news when i heared. I hope there will be arrested those people who done that crime because it is a very nasty attitude from people who are sick.

yeah man... 2 hours ago the 2 latvian girls approached me in the street to meet me... after they insisted that we go to the wine store where i paid 100 eur for bottle (u know that after we go to their place because they said it is right in the same building)... then went to disco where had to pay 50 bucks for 3 cocktails... and then we met the police guy who told me that the girls are on blacklist and want just suck of money and steal my wallet.... So it became obvious when i talked to them....

Be careful!!!!

i ll loe to visi Riga with a friend...We fly from Norway..Any tips..I do architecture and am into electronic-indy music scne,also heavy int classical music and jazz...

i ll loe to visi Riga with a friend...We fly from Norway..Any tips..I do architecture and am into electronic-indy music scne,also heavy int classical music and jazz...

tigeroni
Sounds like you would be heavily drunk... skipping letters... chewing words... dancing tongue... I would like to speak loudly in your ear: WHAT?

Yes, and to repeat things twice! Argghhh!!...