When in Rome… Gladiators of the year 2009
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The world is in a crisis and even the gladiators at the Colosseum in Rome cannot escape it.
It is not the first time that the so-called gladiators at the Colosseum have caused problems for tourists. During an altercation over who was going to have his photograph taken by an unsuspecting tourist two Romans dressed up as gladiators ended up coming to blows.
The Gladiators make their money by posing for tourist photographs wearing their phony Gladiator skirts and brandishing their fake Gladiator swords, for which they often ask exorbitant sums of money.
The gladiators are not the most gentle Romans: in 2007 one of them attacked two American tourists who refused to pay for the privilige of photographing him.
Some years earlier it had come to light that a bunch of the gladiators had conspired and invented an entire system to get as much money out of gullible visitors to the Colosseum as possible.
The gladiator who, in the year 2002, was arrested by the carabinieri on the grounds of carrying a real sword was not involved in that scam.
According to the gladiators who did not participate in the fight yesterday it was all a made-up story and their colleague who ended up in hospital had only stumbled and fallen and thereby hurt himself.
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