The Mafia!

"J'ai peur de la Mafia!!!"
I am afriad of the Mafia!
This was an actual sentence said in French class.
It lead to a lengthy conversation about the Mafia. It turns out that where I live (I'd greatly prefer to keep my location off the internet, though all four, FOUR, of my readers can easily find where I live/have already been there) was once a very Mafiaish city. In fact, my French teacher said that the family Dough nut shop where she used to work was a big hang out for mafia people. Wow....