He's of Italian ancestry, and went out of this country for the first tme in his life at 59....
He can't believe what he's missed and how poorly he believes he's lived all these years in the US. Of course, when you live in the boonies, and you land in Rome, you obviously are going to be shocked, to put it mildly. And this guy is no southern poor asshat. He's a wealthy NYorker who owns among much other stuff two Ferraris....etc.
He loved it there. I have never seen him speak so long and so forcefully before, but out of all the avalanche of things he said, one stuck out was so surprising that he'd mention it at all: He didn't see a single cop, ANYWHERE. And that is exactly what I noticed in Europe too. He just can't believe that we have state troopers, sherrifs, and local town cops, all of them rolling the streets in shiny cars, and trying to FIND "law breakers" to issue tickets to, in areas wit little population, when in the ancient, huge cities of Rome, Athens, Paris, etc., you'd have a hard time seeing one.
Like ah' said before: policing is a businss here, a community service in Europe.
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