Waking life

I'm glad this post has helped people. It's crazy that this is his job is to try to scam people everyday. With this wide spread news hopefully he have to look for another profession. Keep spreading the word and maybe this will turn into a cruise urban legend so nobody will get scammed agin.

I wish I would of taken a picture. As I walked I wanted to go back to take a picture to post on here, but my girlfriend wanted to avoid a conflict. If anybody is with a big group of people or anybody daring should try to take a picture of him to post here. This guy does not look like he is doing very well, for a supposed tourist he looks a lot like a homeless person. Be aware they he is pretty good salesmen but, now you have the heads up. I have had people try to rip me off before along with a lot of other experienced travelers but, ripping of fellow Americans makes me angry. At least this cockroach is off the mainland if we could get him pushed out of Puerto Rico on a small uninhabitated island in the middle ocean that would be great. Pass this information along to any people in San Juan or on the cruise if possible.

We arrived Saturday night in Old San Juan a day early for our 7 day eastern carribean. We checked into our hotel then proceded to walk to a bar and a man stopped us asking if we speak English. He stated that he was engineer from Milwaukee and him his dad just got jumped a block outside old San Juan. He stated his dad was in the hospital and he just went to the US embassy and they were closed. He proceded to tell him he needed seven dollars to get back to the hotel. First of all I doubted we would get jumped one block outside Old San Juan and secondly his story sounded too rehearsed. It sounded like he told this story a thousand times I suppose he said it so fast because he could tell I wanted to walk away. I then told them their was no money I could give him, he seemed really distressed when I walk away.

We had a great time and came back to spend one more day in Old San Juan. Sure enough I was walking down the street and the same man in a different outfit approached me asking if I spoke English. I just walked away ignored him somewhat shocked, I later asked a homeless American for directions. I then asked him if he knew this guy asked people if they spoke English and he stated yes, he sees him trying the same scam everyday. This man is in his fourties between 5-11 and 6-1 foot tall. Dirty blond hair with a thin build. Be aware of this scam artist and tell him where go if you see him.