And for more pickpocket news - this time at Sistine Chapel
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And for more pickpocket news - this time at Sistine Chapel
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It makes sense that this would be a problem area for pickpockets, with nearly everybody looking up, up, up.
It makes sense that this would be a problem area for pickpockets, with nearly everybody looking up, up, up.
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The number 64 bus that runs the length of Rome over to the Vatican has ALWAYS been a pickpocket nightmare! Its high season people-don't leave your backpacks,handbags or cameras unattached to your hands/body!!!!
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There is really nothing new about thieves in the churches and chapels, as it is an ideal set up for them. Not only are many tourists looking up at the paintings and windows, but I have seen many women kneel in a pew and shut their eyes to pray -- having left their purse sitting behind them, unattended. Most of all, people are alert around other tourist hotspots, but they imagine the thieves simply wouldn't be so nervy as to target a church, but they do.
To me, it is no more wrong to steal in a church than it is to steal on the street or train station.
To me, it is no more wrong to steal in a church than it is to steal on the street or train station.