Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > > Must've been any awfully dinky tourist or else a thief on a Harley using a > > grappling hook roped to the handlebars. At 6'4", 265 lbs. I'd like to see > > someone come by on a scooter, grab my waistpack with one hand and drag me > > helplessly to my death. > > DT > > This is correct. many people have been badly injured. Maybe it can't happen > to you, but then not everybody weighs probably 300 pounds and is at the same > time always alert and ready for anything. You have probably traveled > extensively in Rome and know all the pitfalls and the workings of the crooks > there by hart. > > >This has nothing to do with bashing. This are bare facts. I am 5'7", 175 lb. and hardly imposing physically. I have spent over six weeks in Rome over the years beginning in 1964, last time being in 1998, without a problem. I have never had anything stolen let alone seen an untoward incident. Much of this time I was single and traveling alone. For approximately two weeks of that time, my wife was with me and she too had not one single untoward incident. I always travel with my Leicas and always have one or two dangling from my neck. Maybe I'm lucky but I don't think foreign travel is that perilous if one uses common sense. I would be much MORE concerned about traveling in any number of American cities i.e. Camden, Jersey City, Newark, Detroit, L.A. etc. etc. Paul T. Collura