While in Rome my wife was accosted by about a half dozen Gypsy children while we were site seeing by the Colosseum. Apparently this is an often used method to steal wallets from women's purses. They just surrounded her and put their hands all over her while one of them goes for the purse. I was close by and yelled at them loudly to get away from her and they just ran away probably looking for the next victim. We laughed about it later but it would not have been so funny if she had lost her passport etc..
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