{"id":130,"date":"2005-11-17T06:36:19","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T11:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=130"},"modified":"2005-11-17T06:36:19","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T11:36:19","slug":"tourists-robbed-on-inca-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/11\/17\/tourists-robbed-on-inca-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists robbed on Inca trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepost.ie\/breakingnews\/breaking_story.asp?j=187894990&#038;p=y878958x5&#038;n=187895876\">Thirteen tourists were robbed <\/a>of cash, cameras and other goodies on the Inca Trail in Peru.  Something to think about &#8212; and  investigate &#8212; before your next eco-tour or adventure hike: are the people there desperate enough to follow you up tortuous trails, hold you at gunpoint, steal your prized posessions and haul it all back down the hill?<br \/>\n<P>Normally the case for backcountry security has nothing to do with cops, courts or other instruments of the law:  your base protection is the likelihood  that the criminals are too lazy to hike anywhere to steal anything, much less carry it back to civilization once they&#8217;ve stolen it.  But say you were in a large group accompanied by low-paid load-bearers who are easily bribed &#8212; now the equation changes, because a small group of crooks can steal a  large amout of stuff in one haul, making the venture far more profitable.<br \/>\n<P>This is one of the reasons why I have no urge to hike the rest of the world&#8217;s trails until I&#8217;ve seen all the good ones in the good ol&#8217; USA.  Plus there&#8217;s the whole &#8220;how many trips to REI do I lose if I blow two grand visiting the Andes?&#8221;  A man has to think of his gear jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen tourists were robbed of cash, cameras and other goodies on the Inca Trail in Peru. Something to think about &#8212; and investigate &#8212; before your next eco-tour or adventure hike: are the people there desperate enough to follow you&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/11\/17\/tourists-robbed-on-inca-trail\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}