[george wythe]

3,000 euros is about 4,060 American dollars {or 5,398 Australian dollars}

[weegee]

Nice little racket if they run themselves a sting operation.

Didn't Italy elect several porn stars?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Hey, you're only going to get one chance to rob the American tourists, so you might as well make it count.

[Logical me]

What a crock of sh@@. Typical of Italy. Everything backwards. So the police sit there and watch a vendor selling bogus items and arrest the one who has no idea it is counterfeit and purchases the item. What a jacka@@ country. A pure racket.

[savedbygrace]

In Italy, there is apparently more than one way to get pinched in the butt.

[trebb]

Sounds like how the locals around Biloxi went with fireworks a few years back. There are fireworks stands all over theplace and city officials decided to control a perceived problem. It remained legal for the stands to sell them and for people to venture onto the property where the stands resided in order to purchase them, but it was illegal to possess them once you left the parking lot. Tell me there weren't some Dims involved in that one. It only lasted a season and many folks dared the city to try to enforce such stupidity.