Security when driving in São Paulo

cog on 2004-07-02T17:10:37

As soon as we get in a car, all doors are locked. When using one of the company cars, the windows are shaded, so people can't look to the inside and see we have notebooks with us... when driving in a cab, notebooks are placed in the trunk...

Several guys have been robbed in the past, apparently... someone even told me that out of every 10 workers on Vivo, 1 has already lost a notebook to robbers... these numbers seem odd to me, but then again, I have seen some guys on motorcycles trying to look inside our car (when we were stopped at red lights), and I have also seen a guy on a motorcycle being arrested by the police (I didn't see the whole thing happening, but our driver said: "see what happens to people stealing notebooks?")