Travel Alert For Brazil

If you are heading down to Rio de Janeiro for a vacation or on business, Blue Crab Boulevard just wants you to remember this handy-dandy, really important travel alert.

WHATEVER you do, DO NOT park illegally.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A street parking attendant in Brazil's crime-ridden city of Rio de Janeiro was charged with sawing a woman in two over a parking space dispute, police said on Wednesday.

The 29-year-old male suspect was arrested on Tuesday night and confessed to murdering businesswoman Edna Souza, 51, in a house she was trying to rent in the middle class Botafogo district, a police spokeswoman said.

"Only the bottom part of the corpse has been found. Today police are going in force to the city waste dump, which will be combed to try to find the upper part," the spokeswoman said.

The man, a convicted robber, dumped the two parts of the body wrapped in black garbage bags next to waste bins in two spots on the streets of the lively district. A janitor who found the bottom part alerted the police.

Don't say we didn't warn you. Would you get half fare coming home, though?