Bayres Crime Wave? Redux

Furthering our previous post about the li'l crime wave in lovely Palermo, Clarín recently reported that at 11 p.m. two guys in their early 20's jumped tango singer Adriana Verela's [spelling corrected] domestic worker, forced their way into the apartment on the 2500 block of Coronel Diaz (the edg eof Palermo), and stole cash in dollars, euros and pesos. Varela (right) was not at home.

Further fanning the flames, La Nación reported an attempted carjacking (replete with gunshots) at the intersection of Avenida Luis María Campos and Clay, two clothing stores that were burgled at dawn, a kiosk that was robbed twice in 2006, and another kiosk--on the 2400 block of Borges--that's been jumped 20 times in three years. Of course, La Nación might be especially sensitive to this crime wave: on August 17 they published an article about two of their own journalists who had been home-invaded--at 2:15 p.m. in the afternoon, while resting with their two-month-old baby--by armed assailants in their apartment on the 2000 block of Gurruchaga.

Bad Behavior Bonus: Further further proving that as we said before many drivers here can't drive worth a pig's ass, Los Andes runs a DyN story that says that in an average month there are 500 car accidents and 600 hit pedestrians just in the city of Buenos Aires. So the next time you see a car in B.A., remember your what they taught you to do if, um, your clothes caught on fire: Stop, drop and roll. Or just run.