From: Gene McAloon 

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:42:09 -0600, David N. Barnett  wrote:

>On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:35:56 -0600, Gene McAloon
> wrote in message
>:
>
>| I hadn't heard that the pope moves around the Vatican in a bulletproof
bubble.
>| When he visits Italy he probably does, but those are well-publicized trips
with
>| known routes and granted he is not very popular there.  I am surprised the
Rome
>| police don't ticket him for obstructing traffic. It wasn't too many years
ago
>| when the Italian authorities were dead set on arresting the head of the
Vatican
>| bank if he dared step out of the Vatican.
>
>There are two Pope-Mobiles.  Inside the Vatican, he is transported in
>an open Fiat Campagnola (sort of an Italian Jeep), but on his
>peregrinations he is enclosed in a bulletproof Mercedes M-Class.
>
>The Papal Fiat, haha...

Good one. 

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