{"id":34091,"date":"2026-09-09T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=34091"},"modified":"2026-09-10T06:22:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:22:03","slug":"drugged-and-robbed-in-medellin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/drugged-and-robbed-in-medellin\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugged and Robbed in Medellin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>By Mike Huber<\/h6>\n<p>The past few years I have been a fulltime traveler and rarely has anything bad happened to me or those around me (outside a minor pickpocketing incident here or there). That was until Medellin, Colombia. This story is not to give the city or country any type of a black eye, as I was there three months and felt extremely safe, even when motorcycling solo through some of the most remote regions of this South American country.\u00a0 The short of this is bad things can happen anywhere to good people no matter the precautions you take.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34094\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1000057525-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1000057525-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1000057525-600-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/> In my travels there have been only really three places that blew my mind.\u00a0 The expansiveness and emptiness of the Australian Outback, the expansiveness and density of Tokyo, and the expansiveness and curves of the women in Colombia.\u00a0 Yes, my writing is probably not politically correct. I honestly don\u2019t give a shit as it\u2019s true.\u00a0 Medellin, Colombia has some of the most beautiful women on earth. On any given night there are <em>monchichis<\/em> in battalion formation. A sight to behold for sure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34096\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1000088573-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1000088573-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1000088573-600-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the downside to this country, there is an epidemic of men being drugged with something called scopolamine.\u00a0 This drug has you become compliant for several hours to the point you will go to your ATM and withdraw all your funds and give it to whomever asks you to.\u00a0 It then becomes a heavy sedative which will leave you unconscious for 12 hours to 3 days, depending on the dose.\u00a0 The drug is derived from the datura plant and can easily be absorbed into your body by having it added to a drink, blown into your face, or even just having skin contact with it. Pretty much if you are out and about in Colombia and someone wants to drug you with this, it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34095\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1000059413-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1000059413-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1000059413-600-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The probability of this terrible incident happening goes up greatly when using dating sites such as Tinder while in Colombia. The people you meet can be predators working with a team to rob you blind and take everything you own from cash, to credit cards, to laptops and phones.\u00a0 Quite often before they leave you unconscious in your hotel or apartment, you will have provided them with all your logins and passwords to every account you have.\u00a0 The following blog series will be a story of this event.\u00a0 Sadly, it\u2019s true and none of it has been embellished or exaggerated.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<style>\r\n        .wpedon-container .wpedon-select,\r\n        .wpedon-container .wpedon-input {\r\n            width: 171px;\r\n            min-width: 171px;\r\n            max-width: 171px;\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style><div class='wpedon-container wpedon-align-center'><form target='_blank' action='https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr' method='post' class='wpedon-form'><input type='hidden' name='cmd' value='_donations' \/><input type='hidden' name='business' value='ExNotes@ExhaustNotes.us' \/><input type='hidden' name='currency_code' value='USD' \/><input type='hidden' name='notify_url' value='https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-post.php?action=add_wpedon_button_ipn'><input type='hidden' name='lc' value='en_US'><input type='hidden' name='bn' value='WPPlugin_SP'><input type='hidden' name='return' value='' \/><input type='hidden' name='cancel_return' value='' \/><input class='wpedon_paypalbuttonimage' type='image' src='https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif' border='0' name='submit' alt='Make your payments with PayPal. 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This story is not to give the city or country any type of a black eye, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/drugged-and-robbed-in-medellin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drugged and Robbed in Medellin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[392,89],"tags":[247,5054,5052,5053],"class_list":["post-34091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-back-in-the-day","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","tag-colombia","tag-dating-in-colombia","tag-riding-in-colombia","tag-safety-precautions-in-colombia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1000057539-900.jpg","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34388,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34091\/revisions\/34388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}