On 01/06/2011 4:25 AM, Storrmmee wrote:


>
> Of Euro cities I've been to, from accounts of people we met,
> pickpocketing was the worst in Madrid. Rome's gypsies were mostly
> extremely bad musicians trying to demand payment for torturing our
> ears.


My parents did several bus tours in Europe. The only crime that came
close to them was in Barcelona, where one of the people on their tour
was robbed right in front of their hotel.

I saw an interesting thing in Paris one day. A woman was on the ground
having seizures while the children stood by trying to look scared and
the father asked for help. Having been trained in first aid, I was
about to offer help, but then I realized they were gypsies. No one else
was naive enough to help either. Mother got up, dusted herself off and
the walked away.


My son was on a school trip to Europe and while on a bus in Rome an old
Gypsy woman bumped into him. He shoved her away and told her to get
lost. The chaperone gave my son hell for pushing the old lady. While the
chaperone was admonishing him for his actions, the old lady stole the
chaperone's wallet.