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From: "Gregory N. Daugherty" <gdaugher@rmc.edu>
Subject: Re: Rome
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At 01:19 PM 2/5/99 +0100, you wrote:
>
>
>> As for people being robbed by perps on motorini - that is
>> largely an urban legend (or is *that* an urban legend?).
>
>Alas this is not an urban legend: my father's camera has been 
>stolen this way about four years ago near the Pantheon.
>

	I witnessed one in Naples in the 80's and a colleague told me of a snatch
outside Herculaneum - and the victim was a nun in full habit. And of course
she wouldn't let go of the Mother House's camera!

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