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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 245012" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p><strong>Re: Around the world with Traveller</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>This is a great thread and<span style="color: navy"><span style="color: navy">,</span></span> as Cheryl mentioned on the "Cruises advice" thread<span style="color: navy"><span style="color: navy">,</span></span> we've been on a few cruises.</p><p> </p><p>Lifer's advice above is so true. In areas in Europe there are lots of pick pockets and in Italy we were warned by both the cruiseline and our tour guides.</p><p> </p><p>We had an incident in Florence, Italy where we were on a tour with a group of about 25 or so people from the cruise. We were just enjoying the sights walking through the main square where there are wonderful statues, ancient buildings and some shopping and just about ready to stop for lunch at this really nice hotel. The area was crowded and our group was a little spread out with other people in between. I was lagging a little behind mesmerized by all the interesting things to see. All of a sudden two young Italian men, locals, maybe 18-20 years old... dressed nicely to fit in with the tourists, got in between me and Cheryl, my daughter and mother in law who were a few steps ahead of me. These young men blended into our crowd without suspicion. They had no idea that I was right behind them when I saw one of them reach into Cheryl's backpack and came out empty, a smooth move that Cheryl didn't even notice. For a split second I said to myself that SOB just put his hand into our backpack<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/mad.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" data-shortname=":mad:" /> I immediately yelled and shoved the one who had tried to steal something from us. Both of the pick pockets tried to make me look like the bad guy for shoving them but after demanding that they get the hell away from us and several more of our group backing me up by surrounding them they walked off.</p><p> </p><p>While the culprits were still in view I found our tour guide (a real hoot of an Italian woman herself, she sang to us on the bus and was quite a source of entertainment) and explained the situation and asked if we should get the police involved. She said it wouldn't help because they'd be right back on the street before you knew it. She had warned us previously on the bus that if you see a pickpocket hit them, kick them and yell and scream and said I did the right thing.</p><p> </p><p>We were lucky that the pocket of the backpack that was exposed only had some trash in it. We were warned before on what kind of items to bring to avoid being a target. I think Cheryl was actually setting up a sting operation just to get some excitement generated.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/laugh.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":laugh:" title="Laugh :laugh:" data-shortname=":laugh:" /></p><p> </p><p>We were lucky, unlike one of the ladies on our tour that had her expensive watch taken right off her wrist. She didn’t notice it was gone until much later.</p><p> </p><p>Be careful. don't wear expensive jewelry and don't put things you want to keep in your backpack or back pocket.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 245012, member: 1940"] [b]Re: Around the world with Traveller[/b] This is a great thread and[COLOR=navy][COLOR=navy],[/COLOR][/COLOR] as Cheryl mentioned on the "Cruises advice" thread[COLOR=navy][COLOR=navy],[/COLOR][/COLOR] we've been on a few cruises. Lifer's advice above is so true. In areas in Europe there are lots of pick pockets and in Italy we were warned by both the cruiseline and our tour guides. We had an incident in Florence, Italy where we were on a tour with a group of about 25 or so people from the cruise. We were just enjoying the sights walking through the main square where there are wonderful statues, ancient buildings and some shopping and just about ready to stop for lunch at this really nice hotel. The area was crowded and our group was a little spread out with other people in between. I was lagging a little behind mesmerized by all the interesting things to see. All of a sudden two young Italian men, locals, maybe 18-20 years old... dressed nicely to fit in with the tourists, got in between me and Cheryl, my daughter and mother in law who were a few steps ahead of me. These young men blended into our crowd without suspicion. They had no idea that I was right behind them when I saw one of them reach into Cheryl's backpack and came out empty, a smooth move that Cheryl didn't even notice. For a split second I said to myself that SOB just put his hand into our backpack:mad: I immediately yelled and shoved the one who had tried to steal something from us. Both of the pick pockets tried to make me look like the bad guy for shoving them but after demanding that they get the hell away from us and several more of our group backing me up by surrounding them they walked off. While the culprits were still in view I found our tour guide (a real hoot of an Italian woman herself, she sang to us on the bus and was quite a source of entertainment) and explained the situation and asked if we should get the police involved. She said it wouldn't help because they'd be right back on the street before you knew it. She had warned us previously on the bus that if you see a pickpocket hit them, kick them and yell and scream and said I did the right thing. We were lucky that the pocket of the backpack that was exposed only had some trash in it. We were warned before on what kind of items to bring to avoid being a target. I think Cheryl was actually setting up a sting operation just to get some excitement generated.:laugh: We were lucky, unlike one of the ladies on our tour that had her expensive watch taken right off her wrist. She didn’t notice it was gone until much later. Be careful. don't wear expensive jewelry and don't put things you want to keep in your backpack or back pocket. [/QUOTE]
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