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Pancho

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6th one reported today

Prices to DR have dropped 12% over the last week, per NBC Nightly News. 

Coincidence?  

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dominican-republic-tourist-deaths-some-americans-rethinking-their-vacations/

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After at least six U.S. tourists died under mysterious circumstances there in the last 12 months, Americans with plans to visit the Dominican Republic are reconsidering their vacations. The deaths include a California man, Robert Wallace, whose family told Fox News he became critically ill in April at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino resort in Punta Cana. They decided to come forward after learning of others recently who died in similar circumstances while vacationing on the island.

Wallace's family says he was in the Dominican Republic for his stepson's wedding. He quickly became sick and died after drinking a scotch from the minibar at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Nearly two months later, his family still doesn't have answers. 

We now know of at least five other Americans who have died in the Dominican Republic in the last year -- most recently, Miranda Schaup-Werner and a couple from Maryland, Edward Holmes and Cynthia Day. All three died at Bahia Principe hotels. Preliminary autopsies released by Dominican authorities say they all had fluid in their lungs and respiratory failure. Toxicology reports have not yet been released.

Felecia Nieves' sister Yvette Monique Sport also died at a Bahia Principe resort. She says last year, Monique had a drink at the minibar inside her hotel room, went to bed and never woke up.

 

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InkaUtexas

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voodoo is a bitch. 

But on a real note, I lived there a long time. My ill mother lives there now deciding to retire there. My two bothers have lived there for 20+ years. None of us have died. Yet.  

If this is anything, there is someone fucking around at the distributors or these people are abusing certain drugs. One thing you can get in the DR is any knock off pharmaceutical for a good party. And none of that shit is going to be regulated. 

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7 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

We stay at all inclusive hotels for our Punta Cana and Liberia, CR layovers. Free booze in the room attached to the wall. No way I'm ever touching that again. 231fbe9ab7b47f9d463eeedbad405239.jpg

Is there a chance in hell that those bottles aren’t diluted with turpentine or at least really sketchy grade alcohol. 

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As soon as we heard about the deaths I immediately assumed alcohol. If you distill cheap alcohol but don’t remove the poisons properly, you will kill someone. They buy cheap alcohol to save money and I could easily see this being the issue. There are probably other death bottles sitting in hotel rooms as we speak. Or on the back shelf of the bar.

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Moby Ric

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Bootleg booze in resorts in the Caribbean is a rampant.  You would have to be an idiot to think they are actually serving top shelf shit at some middle class all inclusive resort at the pool bar.  It is all garbage even if it is being poured out of a top shelf bottle, it has been either replaced with cheaper shit, or watered down.

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59 minutes ago, Moby Ric said:

Bootleg booze in resorts in the Caribbean is a rampant.  You would have to be an idiot to think they are actually serving top shelf shit at some middle class all inclusive resort at the pool bar.  It is all garbage even if it is being poured out of a top shelf bottle, it has been either replaced with cheaper shit, or watered down.

I should be dead many times over

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Moby Ric

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There was a big thing on bootleg booze in Mexico about a year ago, it was mainly happening at certain resorts.  Here is a link to one of the stories.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/mexico-blackouts/2018/06/27/mexico-resorts-and-tainted-alcohol-assaults-blackouts-tourists-continue/733401002/

Some people died due to tainted drinks.  But this quote is just great:

After no more than three drinks, Smith began acting out of control, jumping on the back of her husband's aunt and doing other out-of-character things. She had to be carried back to the room, where she lost control of her bodily functions and blacked out. She regained consciousness about 24 hours later, confused and with no recollection of anything that had happened.

 

Oh and I am going to Cabo in about a week.  Hope I live. 

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Bootleg booze in resorts in the Caribbean is a rampant.  You would have to be an idiot to think they are actually serving top shelf shit at some middle class all inclusive resort at the pool bar.  It is all garbage even if it is being poured out of a top shelf bottle, it has been either replaced with cheaper shit, or watered down.

Saw this first hand with a bottle on Crown in PV about 10 years back. We were at a side bar and the lobby bar was up top. Guy insisted on Crown in the lobby bar. Workers get an empty Crown bottle and fill it with whatever. Walked the Crown bottle up and drunken Bama fan was happy.
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13 hours ago, Moby Ric said:

Bootleg booze in resorts in the Caribbean is a rampant.  You would have to be an idiot to think they are actually serving top shelf shit at some middle class all inclusive resort at the pool bar.  It is all garbage even if it is being poured out of a top shelf bottle, it has been either replaced with cheaper shit, or watered down.

 

Wait there are people that actually think they are getting top shelf liquor at a "3 star" All Inclusive resort? 

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6 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Honeymooned in Punta Cana for a week. Wife drank mostly champagne and I drank mostly Presidente. We stayed drunk and happy the whole time and didn't die. Though Presidente will give you the occasional squirts.

Good way to do it. Drink Presidente and the excellent rum (Barcelo, Bermudez and Macoris) when there. Fuck drinking the imported shit 

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7 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Honeymooned in Punta Cana for a week. Wife drank mostly champagne and I drank mostly Presidente. We stayed drunk and happy the whole time and didn't die. Though Presidente will give you the occasional squirts.

Make sure to hit the shart thread. 

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When I am required to be at an all inclusive this is usually my action packed itinerary

Hit swim up bar at 830am
Tip pool bartender $20 and tell him you'll be there all day. 
Order Tecate.
Repeat x 20
Laugh at the reactions of  the other customers when you swim up to the bar, and dude just totally blows off everyone waiting patiently to order a drink, or stops in the middle of mixing a cocktail, and gets you a beer right away.
Stumble up to room.
Order enough room service to kill a horse.
Fall asleep before room service arrives.
Wake up to find a bunch of cold cheeseburgers and chicken wings and shit in your room, and eat it for breakfast to battle off your raging hangover. 

 

No dying, all awesome. 
 

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We now have a pretty big last name involved. 

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Businesswoman and "Shark Tank" investor Barbara Corcoran recently revealed that her brother mysteriously died at a resort in the Dominican Republic, TMZ reports. 

John Corcoran, a retiree who owned a roofing company in New Jersey, was purportedly vacationing on the island in April when a friend found him unresponsive in his hotel room. At the time, John was waiting for his girlfriend to arrive, the outlet said. 

Barbara told TMZ that she learned that her brother died of a heart attack, although no autopsy has been performed. The television personality added that, of her nine siblings, John was her "favorite brother" and had a larger-than-life personality. A representative for Barbara later confirmed John's death to NBC News. 

Details surrounding John's death are scant, and it is unclear whether he died at one of the hotels where six others have been found dead. Since last year, several American tourists on the Caribbean island have suddenly fallen ill and passed away. 

 

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1 hour ago, mchookem said:

are none of these deaths being autopsied when the bodies are returned to the US??

Probably because the first couple of them looked nothing out of the ordinary and the trend is only being discovered weeks after the deaths.     

I wouldn't doubt with any foregin national leaving the island now, the first thing will be a stop at medical examiners office for an autopsy especially if they are from the US.  I wouldn't trust the findings from a DR offcial as far as I could throw him/her.  

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