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JohnWebb

A car attempted to stop me when going round the Barcelona ring road last year. A passenger was leaning out of the window pointing at the back tyre and trying to guide me to the exit just ahead. I steered as if I was going up it so he pulled ahead. I then steered at him with horn on and he realised who was largest and accelerated away!

nickleress

[align=center] hi all just thought i would warn any one going to italy of our experiance
in a place just north bari, having traveled france and spain and a few other countrys for 25 years, and have had some near misses of getting robbed, this has never detered us returning, but will never again go to italy,a beautiful country and so are the people, bar just a few,we was in rimini and went to bank,the tella ask my husband ron ] [/font]were we were traverling to, greece he says, then the warning came not to go anywere near bari, he said it is a very dangerous region, so ok we gets approx 25 km outside barrie, and goes into this very ouiet village and parked next to a bench were about 7 men were sat, as we parked our mh a man ran out of this small unit think he was a mechanic, we ask him were the pizza place was, had we looked across this small square we would have seen it, i can say from than on it was a nightmare, the mechanic man ran in to this pizza shop, than all what must have been the staff ran out to the back of the building, than a giant of a man came towards the van opened the drivers door and dragged me out,to say we were teriffied is an understatement, i dont know why with his rolex fine clothes and jewelry he would be intrested in our duetto, as he looked like a man of means, this happened very ouickly, and ron like me didn't realize what was happening at first, well i kid you not this giant had to bend down to sit in the seat he was huge, all the time this was happening the men on the bench next to me did nothing, there was also a few houses, a couple of shops were people could see what was happening to us, everything was so surreal, as the van was being driven by the giant, i was banging on the door and managed to open the drivers side, your going to like this, we both jumped on the man, ron who was frantic by now,was trying to push kick him out and shouting at me to get in the side door, no chance, this maniac was still driving the van while i was trying to pull him out, than as we turned the corner all the men workers stood next to two large wooden doors, waiting for the van to be driven in, to the left there was traffic lights with about 4 cars waiting, could see some concerned faces, this i might add was all in slow motion to me,think ron thought the same as me and we really went for him, screaming what he was going to do to the giant, and at the same time we were pushing hitting him,thought we had nothing to lose at this stage, and i we would have gladly givern them the mh but than what would have happened to us, the giant to our surprise than got out the van full of scratches and i recon one big headache, i jam sure these lights saved us,with that i jumped in the drivers seat, and have never drove like a bat out of hell before or since, on the way home ron went back in the same bank, the tella ask him did you have a nice time, when ron told him all the gory details, the tella seemed upset and told him if the police had been there they would have also turned a blind eye like the men on the bench, and you would have ended up in a pepperoni than putting his finger across his throut, lol when ron laughed at this he said he was deadly serious and said there is a lot of poverty in and around bari and also mafia run, and should have listenend to what he told us, and said he was very sorry that we had to go through such a harrowing time in his country, and hope it did not put us off going back, and like i said although i would love to go back i cannot yet, even after all this time, sorry this has been a long post, but thought i should share this horror story to warn others thinking of traveling this region, sounds like a crime novel but it happend to us, dont want to scare anyone going to this lovely country just be carful were you go, regards to all jean*ron

hogan

aultymer

nickleress -Sorry guys I just can't read your, no doubt, informative post.
My old eyes cannot follow umpteen lines of unpunctuated text on screen. If you could edit it and start a new paragraph every now and then it would help.
I am sure there is something important in there.

hilldweller

Free formatting service: ( since we are off to Italy and there may be something important buried in here ).

hi all just thought i would warn any one going to italy of our experiance
in a place just north bari, having traveled france and spain and a few other countrys for 25 years, and have had some near misses of getting robbed, this has never detered us returning, but will never again go to italy,a beautiful country and so are the people, bar just a few,we was in rimini and went to bank,the tella ask my husband ron.

were we were traverling to, greece he says, then the warning came not to go anywere near bari, he said it is a very dangerous region, so ok we gets approx 25 km outside barrie, and goes into this very ouiet village and parked next to a bench were about 7 men were sat, as we parked our mh a man ran out of this small unit think he was a mechanic, we ask him were the pizza place was.

had we looked across this small square we would have seen it, i can say from than on it was a nightmare, the mechanic man ran in to this pizza shop, than all what must have been the staff ran out to the back of the building, than a giant of a man came towards the van opened the drivers door and dragged me out,to say we were teriffied is an understatement.

i dont know why with his rolex fine clothes and jewelry he would be intrested in our duetto, as he looked like a man of means, this happened very ouickly, and ron like me didn't realize what was happening at first, well i kid you not this giant had to bend down to sit in the seat he was huge, all the time this was happening the men on the bench next to me did nothing, there was also a few houses, a couple of shops were people could see what was happening to us, everything was so surreal.

as the van was being driven by the giant, i was banging on the door and managed to open the drivers side, your going to like this, we both jumped on the man, ron who was frantic by now,was trying to push kick him out and shouting at me to get in the side door, no chance, this maniac was still driving the van while i was trying to pull him out, than as we turned the corner all the men workers stood next to two large wooden doors, waiting for the van to be driven in.

to the left there was traffic lights with about 4 cars waiting, could see some concerned faces, this i might add was all in slow motion to me,think ron thought the same as me and we really went for him, screaming what he was going to do to the giant, and at the same time we were pushing hitting him,thought we had nothing to lose at this stage, and i we would have gladly givern them the mh but than what would have happened to us.

the giant to our surprise than got out the van full of scratches and i recon one big headache, i jam sure these lights saved us,with that i jumped in the drivers seat, and have never drove like a bat out of hell before or since, on the way home ron went back in the same bank, the tella ask him did you have a nice time, when ron told him all the gory details, the tella seemed upset and told him if the police had been there they would have also turned a blind eye like the men on the bench, and you would have ended up in a pepperoni than putting his finger across his throut, lol

when ron laughed at this he said he was deadly serious and said there is a lot of poverty in and around bari and also mafia run, and should have listenend to what he told us, and said he was very sorry that we had to go through such a harrowing time in his country, and hope it did not put us off going back, and like i said although i would love to go back i cannot yet, even after all this time,

sorry this has been a long post, but thought i should share this horror story to warn others thinking of traveling this region, sounds like a crime novel but it happend to us, dont want to scare anyone going to this lovely country just be carful were you go,

regards to all jean*ron

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Blimey, what an experience. We are staying oop north, thank goodness.

nickleress

thanks for that brian, just got carried away and just wanted to get it off my chest so to speak, jeanxron

aultymer

Thanks from me too hilldweller. I honestly could not keep my finger on the right line trying to follow that post.
nickleress, The information is priceless.
Sorry I missread your name as Nickerless the first time!! Shows where my mind is!!
Please do not be put off Italy by this incident - most of the country is not like that, as far as I know.
We have never managed to get beyond France in the MH but have had other holidays in Italy including, Sorrento, Lipary, Chiantishire and Garda and have had nothing but pleasure.
On the other hand we were robbed or attacked 4 times in Barcelona -we won't go back there!! But we may well visit other areas of Spain.

teemyob

silversurfa

You do not get stopped by unmarked policia/ G