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Tony Pike Missionary Robbed Stripped - Trinidad, Tobago / Caribbean - Posted: 15th Jan, 2011 - 2:13pm
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Tony Pike Missionary Robbed And Stripped
Is there really hope for Trinidad and Tobago? These people are coming to this country to HELP those who are in need. It is so sad to see they experience things like this:
QUOTE A VISITING missionary was beaten, robbed and stripped down to his underwear on Sunday night.
Tony Pike, 47, a missionary originally from Heidelberg in Germany, has been in this country for the past year 'trying to fill the life of people with hope".
However, Pike himself almost lost hope on Sunday after those he is 'trying to feed bit the hands".
Pike relayed the story of his attack to this newspaper at Express House yesterday.
A member of the "Is There Not A Cause", Pike was on his way from a Sunday night church service to a Glencoe apartment where he was scheduled to spend the night. He attends the Divine Destiny Church in Diego Martin.
After exiting a maxi-taxi on the Western Main Road, Carenage, Pike entered a shop to buy a Smalta, he said.
Around 11.30 p.m. Two young men approached Pike from behind and one held him in a headlock.
Pike was beaten, he was pick-pocketed and his laptop computer and cellular phone were stolen.
He attempted to fight his attackers but the assailants ripped his pants off. The men dropped the laptop during the scuffle with Pike.
Two customers, who were in the shop at the time Pike was attacked, called the emergency E-999 hotline.
However, the police never came.
"I stood naked for more than two hours along the Main Road, if that happened in Germany they would have called and the loony bin would have come for me," Pike said.
"After giving a 30-minute speech on responsibility, two young men who said they knew the attackers were willing to tell police exactly who the men were, but they left when the police did not come," he said.
Pike said to make matters worse a police car passed him along the road while he stood in his underwear, waving his ripped pants.
The car never stopped...
Tony Pike, 47, a missionary originally from Heidelberg in Germany, has been in this country for the past year 'trying to fill the life of people with hope".
However, Pike himself almost lost hope on Sunday after those he is 'trying to feed bit the hands".
Pike relayed the story of his attack to this newspaper at Express House yesterday.
A member of the "Is There Not A Cause", Pike was on his way from a Sunday night church service to a Glencoe apartment where he was scheduled to spend the night. He attends the Divine Destiny Church in Diego Martin.
After exiting a maxi-taxi on the Western Main Road, Carenage, Pike entered a shop to buy a Smalta, he said.
Around 11.30 p.m. Two young men approached Pike from behind and one held him in a headlock.
Pike was beaten, he was pick-pocketed and his laptop computer and cellular phone were stolen.
He attempted to fight his attackers but the assailants ripped his pants off. The men dropped the laptop during the scuffle with Pike.
Two customers, who were in the shop at the time Pike was attacked, called the emergency E-999 hotline.
However, the police never came.
"I stood naked for more than two hours along the Main Road, if that happened in Germany they would have called and the loony bin would have come for me," Pike said.
"After giving a 30-minute speech on responsibility, two young men who said they knew the attackers were willing to tell police exactly who the men were, but they left when the police did not come," he said.
Pike said to make matters worse a police car passed him along the road while he stood in his underwear, waving his ripped pants.
The car never stopped...
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QUOTE Pike said to make matters worse a police car passed him along the road while he stood in his underwear, waving his ripped pants.
Its stories like this I want those ignorant Trinis to see and digest when they logon here from abroad and say how 'nice' the country is and how they wish to come back and we should say positive things about the country only. Give me break, I see crime daily in this country.
Post Date: 2nd Dec, 2009 - 11:57pm / Post ID: #
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Name: Alicia
Comments: Yes it is very sad and scary place... Think I would feel safer visiting Iraq than Trinidad. Explain to me why foreigners still going there to visit or live and those who living there has not left as yet... Unless where they are originally from even worse! if there could possibly anywhere worse than Trinidad. What keeps foreigners there?
Post Date: 5th Jan, 2010 - 1:45pm / Post ID: #
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Name: Pueppi
Comments: Excuse me guys! I am a German national, living in Trinidad, and I happened to hear about this story too! first of all: the guy is not even German! He has German roots, thats all. Hes American... Just by the way.
I know, it doesn't make thinks better but:
I really think it is way too much to say to feel even safer in Iraq! How stupid can you be to say something like that? I live here since three years, and nothing ever happened to me. You just have to stay away from a certain crowd, don't piss off the wrong kind of people and have to adjust to the mentality here.
But you could do all this things and still be killed in Iraq, because its random there!
Crime is everywhere. The guy was not killed, he was robbed. If you are being robbed, just let it go. Give up your stuff, and nobody would hit you! but this particular guy acts like a lunatic, so what else should have happened to him?
Before making such stupid comments, come here and see for yourself! Sure, its not paradise, but to put it worse than Iraq? Please....
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Where did you hear he is not German? He is from Heidelberg and he IS a German national, not like it makes a difference really.
QUOTE I live here since three years, and nothing ever happened to me. You just have to stay away from a certain crowd, don't piss off the wrong kind of people and have to adjust to the mentality here.
Wow, what else you have to do? I don't know if you can see but it doesn't sound good.
Post Date: 19th Sep, 2010 - 10:04pm / Post ID: #
Tony Pike Missionary Robbed And Stripped
Name: Tony
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Comments: (TO EVERYONE) I am Tony Pike [Not verified], the Missionary supporter who was Beaten, Robbed & Stripped.
To 'Joe Public'& to all, No- I am NOT American! Just because my last name sounds English means nothing. Also, in the future please refrain from the unkind (& seemingly moronic) statements such as when you described how I supposedly acted like a 'lunatic' when I was viciously attacked. Were YOU there? (NO!) Any newspaper article cannot adequately portray reality - it has to leave out much information to keep their column short.
Look Friends, I was in fear for my LIFE when I was viciously Attacked! I used to teach Martial Arts and I maintain a body-builder's physical shape - and so 'I' Attacked my attackers but thinking they were going to kill me(!), not necessarily to regain my Laptop and some of my cash.
I came to T&T because it needs hope more than anything. I did my best in the 2 years I lived there, but I only left not because the going got rough, but (figuratively speaking) all the Rules and Referees retired. I still miss and fervently PRAY for the rest of the good, God-fearing people in Trinidad, Venezuela, Jamaica, etc., who must somehow tolerate what it's previously peaceful Country has turned into. I wish you would do the same.
To all: Thank you for all of your comments and concerns. I appreciate them. But please be concerned the most about the unfortunate daily victims of Trinidad's out-of-control 'Free-for-all'.
I am living back in Europe now (Switzerland) recovering, & thinking on what I might do next to instill hope to the ravaged World.
Thank you kindly / mit [.] Tony
Post Date: 14th Jan, 2011 - 4:35am / Post ID: #
Tony Pike Missionary Robbed Stripped
Tony is an American who moved to T&T two years ago. We have been friends for many years. I did a Google search and found him. I know his writing/posting style and this is Tony from USA. Best wishes to him in Switzerland.
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Tony Pike Missionary Robbed Stripped Trinidad & Tobago / Caribbean
Countrylife, is Tony in Trinidad despite all this? I imagine that by now he decided to migrate to his homeland? I remember reading about his experience and I thought it was very scary.
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