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fpbThe Carabinieri, Italy's military police, are known for strict adherence to regulations and stern notions of duty. Each Carabiniere, it is said, has another Carabiniere watching inside him. Which is why there is nothing surprising about the fact that, once a shop-owner in the lovely hilltop village of Torgiano, near Perugia, called the local force to deal with a shoplifter, they dealt with her strictly according to the rules, arresting her, taking her to their station, and questioning her. The embarrassed prisoner - a respectable OAP aged sixty - freely confessed to stealing twenty euros' worth of meat, because her tiny pension could not stretch to the whole month. The Carabinieri quite properly charged her - then had a whip-round among themselves, paid for her weekly shopping, and took her to dine in a local restaurant. That second inner Carabiniere can be a pretty soft-hearted old fellow at times.
POST SCRIPTUM: You don't get rich on a Carabiniere's wages either.
POST SCRIPTUM: You don't get rich on a Carabiniere's wages either.
