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How My Wife Stopped a Pickpocket on a Rome Subway

It was crazy, but I still think the threat of being robbed is way overblown

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Rocco Pendola
Feb 27, 2026
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The record needs to be set straight about petty theft in European cities.

Not because it doesn’t exist, but because what we do with the fear of it matters more.

But first, a little story about what happened to us in Rome last week.

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