"Meeting Girls"
The late Frank Rizzo, former police commissioner of Philadelphia once said: "The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It’s only the people who make them unsafe."p>
One certifiably unsafe character is Nunzio, unmarried at age 41. He claims all he wants is a steady girlfriend, but he doesn’t have a clue about how to meet one. Nunzio comes from a broken family, which may explain his lack of training in the social graces.
Arrested for a few minor crimes as a juvenile, he’s been exposed to what we must assume are the wrong kind of people. As an adult, Nunzio’s favorite way of meeting young women goes something like this:
Driving along the city streets he sees a young girl he finds to be attractive and bumps her car. Not hard—just hard enough to be defined as an accident. Nunzio and the girl both jump out of their cars. He’s very apologetic. They exchange information as required by law.
Fortunately, Nunzio happens to have a camera in his car which he uses to take lots of pictures of the damage. The pretty girl owner of the car happens to be in every picture.
Police are hardly ever called because the damage is slight. In leaving the scene, Nunzio has the young girl’s name, address, and telephone number. How convenient!
Police said Nunzio used the information he obtained at the accident scenes to contact women at their home, or he’d pester them on the telephone.
Ultimately Nunzio is arrested. Is he charged in connection with all the traffic accidents? No, the 40 year old weirdo is charged with sexual harassment.
Prosecutors think they have enough reason to get a search warrant. During the search of Nunzio’s apartment they find some 2,159 photographs of young woman standing next to damaged cars. Name, address and telephone numbers are written on the back of each photo.
Don’t worry. This didn’t happen in South Carolina or anywhere in the U.S. It happened in Naples, Italy. Nobody knows if, in all his subterfuge, Nunzio ever made a romantic connection.
Copyright-Bob Ford 2002
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