# Need advice--stop elderly from doing something stupid/dangerous re: foreign travel

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-advice-stop-elderly-from-doing-something-stupid-dangerous-re-foreign-travel/750199>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 26, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-advice-stop-elderly-from-doing-something-stupid-dangerous-re-foreign-travel/750199 "2016-03-26T03:29:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-advice-stop-elderly-from-doing-something-stupid-dangerous-re-foreign-travel/750199/21 "2016-03-29T14:04:57Z")

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> [@Princhester](#):
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> Given that you pretty much know there is a crime in progress, could you report it to police? I don’t know if they’d do much without a complaint from the victim, but maybe an independent third party telling him it’s a scam might get through to him.

My thought too. Would the Jamaican police be helpful in this matter?

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-advice-stop-elderly-from-doing-something-stupid-dangerous-re-foreign-travel/750199/22 "2016-03-29T17:46:29Z")

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> [@ivylass](#):
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> My thought too. Would the Jamaican police be helpful in this matter?

There’s a bigger chance that they’re in on it.

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