Robbed at gunpoint

The wife and I walk streets for exercise in Maine and when we are in Mexico. Although I conceal carry in Maine we feel safer in Mexico when we're out walking in the evening unarmed.
In Maine one dark night we were walking in a nice neighborhood when two young men approached us and asked for a cigarette (how old is that line?) Anyhow, I'm fairly tall and didn't appear worried or nervous and they left us alone. Something like that has never happened in Mexico to us.
Children are nowhere to be seen on the streets at night in the US while they are out in numbers in Mexico.

Car jacking crimes were quite common in the US a couple of decades ago. News reports published them all the time.
So. . .now, are car jacking crimes down? Or is that not "news" anymore?
It's news only when reported.
Thanks for the news Paul.

This type of crime has been going on for a long time, it surges and then recedes, in times past the crooks would ride a bicycle and snatch the watches of the person with the arm resting on the window frame at a stop light, I saw it happen on Avenida Reforma to the guy in front of me at the stop light, then they were not violent, today they have a knife and some have a gun, the violence has escalated, as I stated before this does not happen on one corner only at one spot but all over the different areas of the cities, it is so random that the authorities are not able to catch them, some ride motorcycles and others bicycles and some are on foot.

Just be aware of what you do, doors locked and windows rolled up, less chance for the crook, do not try to be the hero because you were in the armed forces and have commando training, your chances of getting hurt go up as age goes up.

navegator

qtla9111 wrote:

rocmoc wrote:
Just be cautious or stay NOB.

rocmoc n AZ

Staying NOB? With the latest news and crime statistics I don't think it makes any difference what country you're in.

Agree with you in general but not locally! But I was referring to you have a choice to go SOB or not, Choice is Yours! Was talking about choice, nothing else! You expanded my post!

rocmoc n AZ

I was not trying to get people paranoid, just advising caution in some areas. As ohers have said you are at risk in the US as well.