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The woman, who claims to be pregnant after being caught, is held by the hair and arms and stopped from stealing the bag at Piazza di San Lorenzo, a square in Florence
The woman, who claims to be pregnant after being caught, is held by the hair and arms and stopped from stealing the bag at Piazza di San Lorenzo, a square in Florence
My God, why would any American want to visit Europe? I'd rather visit Detroit instead.
Probably a gypsy juvenile, so she will be turned loose the same day. Undoubtedly the police are familiar with this thief. What these vile creatures need is a sound caning, then thrown in jail for 2-3 weeks.
Too bad they didn’t mud stomp her into the pavement. She’ll be back out stealing again tomorrow.
Every trip I’ve ever taken to Europe, the gypsies have been there - on subways, in public squares, anywhere there’s a crowd. And I’ve learned to put my wallet in my front pocket when they’re around. Stereotypes usually exist for a reason.
So jail the crooks already!
The thieves are probably gypsies. This is how they operate. I know. I’ve seen it and been the victim. They send women to do or young girls 14 years because they are released by the police.
When I was 19 way back when and going to college in New Orleans, I had bought a quart of beer and poured it into the mandatory milk type paper carton so I could consume it on Bourbon Street. I paid with a 50 dollar bill and stuck the folded bills from the transaction into my Levi’s right front pants pocket partially exposing the bills.
As I was standing on the corner of Bourbon and Saint Louis Street I noticed a small framed black man approaching from across the street, as he got close to me he threw his right arm up in my direction causing me to flinch as his left hand grabbed the corners of the bills protruding from my pocket. I don’t know why, to this day almost 55 years later, I instinctively reached around my back with my left hand and grabbed the guy by his clothing not knowing that he had grabbed my cash and pulled him close, I was 6’3” strong corn fed midwesterner, but I knew he had tried something.
He immediately handed me my money and started apologizing before he received the obligatory beat down. Except, I didn’t beat him down, I gave him a choice, give me all the contents in HIS wallet or get the snot beat out of him before I called the NOLAPD.
He complied and gave me almost 300 dollars and I turned him loose. Along with a warning that if I saw him on Bourbon Street again I would call the cops and tell them you just pickpocketed me, and I told him he was a master of his craft and I had learned a valuable lesson.
Today, he probably would’ve stabbed or shot me.