US embassy staff hurt in Caracas strip club shooting

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**Dreadclaw69**

Your tax payer dollars hard at work

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22699157

Two US embassy officials have been injured in a shooting after a brawl at a nightclub in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, police said.

The incident reportedly took place at the Antonella 2012 Club, a pole dancing bar in the Chacao neighbourhood.

The US confirmed two of its embassy staff in Caracas were being treated for non-threatening injuries after an "incident at some sort of social spot".

Local media named the pair as Roberto Ezequiel Rosas and Paul Marwin.

The shooting happened on Tuesday morning, Venezuelan officials said.

It is not clear whether it occurred inside or outside the club, which is located in an upmarket part of town.

Police said one man was hit in the abdomen, while the other was shot in the leg and abdomen.

"Apparently it was a fight originating in a nightspot where these people were attacked," Venezuelan police spokesman Duncan Rico told local media.

"Shots were fired at them and they suffered gunshot wounds."

The US State Department said embassy officials in Caracas were liaising with the two men and their families.

Spokesman Patrick Venetrell said the incident happened in "some sort of social spot or somewhere outside the embassy grounds".

Caracas is thought to be one of the most dangerous cities in Latin America.

Last year, the government introduced a new gun law banning the sale of firearms and ammunition.

**KalashnikovMarine**

Hey now, a man/woman/other should be able to enjoy the... relaxation facilities of their choice in their off work hours, now if it was a work function at a titty bar I think there would be room for complaint, in particular because my work certainly never hosts fucntions fun places like that!

**kronk**

What they do in their off-time is their own business, but Venezuela isn't the best place to go clubbing if you're an American.

**KalashnikovMarine**

If you are stationed in Caracas you really do not have many other options for a Friday night out kronk.

**Dreadclaw69**

Maybe after the Secret Service was told off for using prostitutes in Venezuela all government workers were told to dial back on certain activities

**azazel the cat**

I WANNA KNOW WHAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT KNEW ABOUT THIS INCIDENT!

I wanna see emails, and I demand a senate inquiry. Caracas might end up being Obama's Watergate!

I don't even have the energy to keep the joke up. Someone get Whembly on this.

**d-usa**

This will make for a better HBO movie than Bengazi, because boobs

**rubiksnoob**

d-usa wrote:
This will make for a better HBO movie than Bengazi, because boobs

To be fair, if there were boobs in Benghazi, HBO would find them. A even if there weren't they'd still find a way to work them in.

**Jihadin**

Depending on where your at...closest thing to boobs will be a Maxim magazine

**Easy E**

I knew there was a reason I thought it would fun to work at State.

**Kilkrazy**

So much for US citizens' preparedness for impromptu gun fights.

**Hordini**

Kilkrazy wrote:
So much for US citizens' preparedness for impromptu gun fights.

Sounds like they were following the draconian gun laws of the country they were in.

**Kilkrazy**

Lightweights.

**kronk**

Hordini wrote:
Kilkrazy wrote:
So much for US citizens' preparedness for impromptu gun fights.

Sounds like they were following the draconian gun laws of the country they were in.

Yeah, the only guns they were allowed to pack were the ones that the strippers polished in the back rooms...

**Hordini**

kronk wrote:
Hordini wrote:
Kilkrazy wrote:
So much for US citizens' preparedness for impromptu gun fights.

Sounds like they were following the draconian gun laws of the country they were in.

Yeah, the only guns they were allowed to pack were the ones that the strippers polished in the back rooms...

I hope they weren't open carrying.