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Beggars and Cons: I encountered a few gypsy...
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  • Updated by larsy on Sep 14, 2005
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  • I encountered a few gypsy cliques, kids putting signs in your face while others try to rob you and women with fake babies. Luckily I held on to my money.

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    Train Stations: NIGHT TRAINS- OK everyone...
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  • NIGHT TRAINS- OK everyone knows they are not as safe as daytime trains, but it is they are convenient. Well me and my four friends get a cabin and are ready to sleep when Mr.18 year old Italian with white shorts freak comes in and practically sits on my friend. We speak 2 words of Italian and he speaks English about as well. We tell him we are going to sleep and he wont leave us (There were PLENTY of empty cabins) we whip out the guide book and uses the women defense page (serious) and tell him my friend has an an infectious disease (she did have a rash on her leg) this does not faze him, he was disgusting. After we ignore him he leaves....Only to return and do some 'exotic dancing' pelvic thrust in our door which he is blocking. A minute of this goes on so I MACED him (OK I did not MACE him I sprayed him with some Saniguard) My friends thought he was going to murder me but we pushed him out into the hall and all of us had to pull the door closed. Then we had to DUCT TAPE the door shut with about 20 pieces (it really worked when he tried to come in later in the night) When the ticket taker came for our tickets we had to spend 5 minutes untaping the door but when we told him we had been harassed he asked if it had been the guy with the white shorts. He had been harassing all the women in the train and he thought we were pretty clever with the duct tape.

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    Comments for larsy about Rome
    GroovyDoc Fri Jan 3, 2003 11:49 UTC
     I've read about 30 different people's pages and yours was the first with a pushy-man story! I loved it and I'm packing duct tape!
    iandsmith Wed Dec 11, 2002 02:26 UTC
     There I was looking for tips on Rome and I learnt another use for duct tape!
    syllybabe Thu May 16, 2002 22:59 UTC
     Good duct tape tips! Funny page
    brazilnut30 Tue Feb 5, 2002 01:10 UTC
     LOOKS AWESOME!
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