I was pick-pocketed in Naples, Italy, at the bus stop in front of the
picturesque ole port, downtown (very close).
Fortunately, the wallet had a drivers license, a library card, a $5
lotto ticket(s),
and only $2.
I cancelled the credit card asap.
The librarian when I got back to my Georgia, USA,
told me he had his wallet cut out of his back pocket
at nearby affluent
Gwinnett Place Mall, and I "enjoyed" the irony.
I won't be going to that Mall b-t-w, however.
Regarding apparent gypsies &/or the usual
thieving street punks:
The technique they used on me was to sort of surround me, then filch it
outa my back pocket.
Of course I did not realize it immediately; but when I got on the bus,
then...@#$%^&*()_+.
Well, I was told not to carry a wallet in back pocket, so I deserved
the lesson.
Advice: put an empty ole wallet in back pocket maybe as a decoy or
terrific reverse
joke, and
utilize one of those
stomach belt bag things, which I never have, but if I think about it
the next time I'm at a store, then why not get the thing.
Being a tourist trapped/victimized by street bastardes sure is...fun,
and I suppose part of the romance, experience & cruddiness of real life
as it drearily is.
Thumper wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:17:22 -0500, "jim"
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Von Fourche" wrote in message
> >news:ei68f4$9as$1@web.aioe.org...
> >>
> >> "Charles" wrote in message
> >> news:301020061752137095%fort@his.com.remove.invalid...
> >>> In article <1915-4545E84D-711@storefull-3317.bay.webtv.net>, RICK DAVIS
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Agreed!! Going by boat is way diffrent than taking a bus or cab to the
> >>>> falls. I wonder if the reaction would have been the same if they had to
> >>>> walk out thru the market place? I doubt it.
> >>>
> >>> I went by boat and did not walk through the market place. I planned it
> >>> that way. That is the beauty of the internet. You can do advance
> >>> research and avoid pitfalls.
> >>
> >>
> >> Even if people don't do research on the net before they visit a place
> >> like the Falls they should not be subjected to the harassment that
> >> visitors encounter when they are more or less forced to visit that market
> >> on top of the Falls.
> >>
> >> Ocho Rios = Bad.
> >>
> >Nobody is forced to buy anything and you are not even forced to walk through
> >the straw market. Signs point you the way into the Market and the other
> >points to the exit. I do agree that the vendors at the falls were a bit over
> >the top but the ones downtown are lots of fun. In the dozen or do times we
> >have been there we have had fun every time and would go again in a
> >heartbeat.
> >Jim
> >
> They wouldn't even be there if no one bought from them.
> thumper
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