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"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> John Q Public wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>> John Q Public wrote
>>>> lorad <lorad474@cs.com> wrote
>>>>> wis...@yahoo.com wrote
>>>>>> David P. <imb...@mindspring.com> wrote
>
>>>>>>> http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-04-22-popkostadinova-en.html
>
>>>>>>> Nikoleta Popkostadinova
>>>>>>> "No maths and no water in Stolipinovo"
>
>>>>>>> "The jobs boom in Bulgaria has left the Roma behind"
>
>>>>> Tourist towns in France are crawling with them..
>
>>>>> The little bastards will crowd in on tourists, pushing against them
>>>>> to pick pockets and reach into purses.
>>>>> The ones I had to deal with were easy to spot though; they are all
>>>>> little, about 5'8'' , and the same weird olive colored faces.
>
>>>> Read up on the gypsies, they have an interesting history but are by
>>>> nature due to their
>>>> society mafia like and corrupt to their cores, beggar kings,
>>>> prostitution, con games.... are all
>>>> daily bread for gypsies.
>>>> Once in a while the group does resemble the stereotypes
>
>>>> Just like in Sicily and the mob where they have had periods where
>>>> very few men were around for women to marry because of vendettas....
>
>>> That never happened.
>
>> Yes it did, there have been a number of periods where this occured
>
> Easy to claim. Have fun actually substantiating that claim.
>
> The murder rate was never that high.
>

I am married to a Sicilian.

We were married in Sicily with her family in attendance.

I have heard *many* stories from the old timers.

I have sat in the park in Partinico with the "retired" old timers and 
listened.

I have been to dinners in Bagheria given by "honorable" men.

Yes.....the murder rate was that high at some periods in their history, and 
men would flee beacuse being an independant meant death, and being on the 
wrong side meant death.

Made Malta and Spain look very attractive.

"And that makes *you* a cumquat!"....Dennis Hopper to Christopher Walken in 
"True Romance".