jota1500 wrote:
I meant him over 11-12 years ago in the DR while on either my first or 2nd mongering vacation. He was a chill dude and just super excited about life. Who wouldn't be on vacation.
Gave me some pointers, advice, and a card. I had no idea who he was then. His advice was about on point for a newbie though I will admit. I knew some stuff from research, but he knew all the spots, the game chicas play, what areas to avoid, ect. He also gave me contact to a badass apartment I stayed on future trips for $30 a night. Also how I found out about Jaguar's(for anyone that remember those glory days). Think he was trying to setup some storage unit business or something then.
Not sure if he changed or got more cocky as the years passed, I never keep up. So I do not really understand the hate against him. The word was out way before he started making video's. I think people just locked on him for no reason or didn't like his out in the open style. I've meant far worst mongers over the past 12-13 years.
He was personable enough and fine that way. But he apparently had been warned that his promotion of the sex business in Costa Rica might get him in trouble. The law he was charged under was put in place to stop that sort of promoting. He knew about it, I have been told, and thought he would be fine. In the end, on appeal, there were enough problems with his case that they determined there should be a new trial.
The hate, or at least the negative, is that some blame him for some of the changes that folks have had to make so as to not run afoul of the laws in Costa Rica. But he is not to blame for the law, he just happened to be the first one charged under it.