ROME: Italians are used to buying
bogus Gucci bags or Rolex watches to
look stylish but police found a new
height of craftsmanship and cunning
when they broke up a ring selling fake
Ferrari cars for a fraction of the real
price.
Police accused 15 people of building
the blood red sports cars and selling
them to car fanatics on a budget, most
of whom knew they were buying a
counterfeit classic.
Car body workers who police
called "very able" cobbled together
components. They used body parts
from other makes of automobiles,
such as chassis, roofs, hoods, trunks
and doors.
The body parts were modifi ed to
look like Ferrari clas sics such as the 328
Gtb, which went out of production in
the late 1980s.
Some of the cars sold for about
20,000 euros, about a tenth of the going
price for some versions.
We were listening to a lecture on
psychic phenomena in our Comparative
Religions course. Our instructor told
us about a woman who contacted
police working on a missing persons
case. "She gave them eerily detailed
instructions on where to find the
detectives did find the body just as she
body," the instructor said. "In fact, the
had described. Now, what would you
call this type of person?"
While the rest of us pondered the
question, a sheriff's offi cer taking the
class raised his hand and replied, "A
suspect."
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