A tour company in Rio de Janeiro is in trouble because along with taking people on tours of the city’s notorious slums, it has been arranging for tourists to meet with genuine armed drug traffickers, and even have pictures taken with them. Who knew there was a market for that?
But here’s the best part. Instead of denying it, the guy from the tour firm in question said yeah, he does have tours like that, but “I’m not the only one.” Ah, good to know there’s competition.
“Mr. Soprano! Can I call you Tony? Sorry to barge into your Bada Bing! office here. Can you just stand between me and the little woman for a snapshot? Yeah, keep that real mean look! Say, can you kind of point that gun at me, Tony?”
James Gandolfini: REUTERS/Phil McCarten
Brazilian police recover body of alleged drug trafficker in Rocinha shantytown of Rio de Janeiro in a 2004 file photo. REUTERS/Bruno Domingos
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Oh sure, who wouldn’t want to get up close and personal with a drug trafficker?! I myself have often wanted a photo of me and the guy who mugged me a few years ago, or with some of the hookers downtown. I totally understand this. Retired Mafia dons would be great, too, the real ones, not Tony Soprano, the wuss…
- Posted by Dee TUuuummmmm. You called Tony Soprano a wuss. I’m tellin’.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksKid, you’re hired.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksThinking about drug traffickers sends me into a downward spiral. Next Odd.
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks