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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 7:46 am
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Christopher
 
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Originally Posted by ajax
Frankly, I would also be worried that it would be lost/stolen. In some places, passports for Western countries are worth thousands of dollars.
Quite so. In some hotels in Italy they just put the passports in a pile behind the front desk somewhere: it wouldn't be hard for someone to pocket a few (given the right circumstances) or indeed for one or more to fall off and end up behind the table they're on. I suppose it's also conceivable that they could be stolen in some "organised" way...
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