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** There have been notable examples of inept criminals trying to rob bars or restaurants frequented by off-duty police (which, in many places, tend to be frequented by few others). There has also been at least one example of rather cleverer criminals staging an apparently stupid attempt to rob such, then a second group arriving after the obvious happens, posing as another, unfamiliar group of police. The second group of criminals then attempt to trick the real police in the establishment out of their guns to conduct a real robbery.
* In ''Tales of the Alhambra'' Washington Irving commented about this aspect of Spain. As there had not only been a recent guerilla war, but the government was corrupt and incompetent, disorder was rampant and private subjects were often forced onto their own resources.
**Spanish knife fighting is a plebian tradition complimentary to the more courtly rapier and arising from such turmoil. In Spain(not otherwise a country famed for female egalitarianism)even women regularly learned how to use knives and knives made for women were decorated and had cute slogans to the effect of, "I am devoted to my mistresses [[Chastity Dagger|honor]]". Gitano(Spanish Roma) have their own curious tradition of using horse shears as a combat weapon.
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