Italy: rage and ruins

Italy was memorable for our experience with the shady side of life; the gypsies/pickpockets, the policecar which did an initial-D at 4th gear and drifted into MY direction, the thieves in the R2 bus, and my agonizing wait at the police station. Apparently, people pay the mafia protection money so that their cars would not be jacked in the carparks. I would later learn from sar that the mafia in Naples control the garbage trucks too. Pretty Godfather stuff eh? I thought maybe if I'm born in Naples, I'll might grow up to be a priest by day, and a mafia leader by night. 'To those outside the law I became as one outside the law that I might win those outside the law'?? Just kidding...