Once you have been arrested for daring to look at the Gaddafi family houses. Yesterday ordinary Libyans were able to walk straight into houses abandoned by fleeing the great dictator and his sons, and to help themselves symbols of wealth beyond the imagination of most.
Many expressed disbelief in the absolute vulgarity of all, with gold fixtures and marble all over the screen, while others saw strange touch of insanity in personal tastes Gaddafi clan.
One of the first residences of Gadhafi's house was looted by the sea of his son Al-Saadi, 38, a white Lamborghini was one of four cars fell quickly disappeared in Tripoli earlier this week.
A BMW, Audi and Toyota also released by the rebels in a garage decorated with a mural of a yellow sports car.
In one study, the piles of catalogs for yachts and cars were abandoned. A brochure was a yellow post-it note handwritten on the front, indicating the price of a yacht of 100 feet seven million euros. A DVD of homosexual pornography was also one of its assets. Seifallah Gneidi, 23, took a large bottle of gin, a toothbrush handle and a pair of golden Diesel jeans from the villa.
"We wanted the things I had," said rebel fighter.
A short distance from the city in the western suburb of Nofleen, the village of Al-Saadi's sister, Aisha, 36, showed that money can buy many things, but you can not buy taste.
In a circular entry hall rebels took turns being photographed sitting on a gold-painted sofa in the shape of a mermaid.
Lying on the ground nearby, a carrying case of the London toy store Hamleys lay next to the old children's clothing and a travel cot pink.
"I can not even believe what I'm seeing," said Shubri Muftah, a local resident, looking at the indoor pool, dinghy inflatable toddler still floating in the water. But Colonel Gaddafi himself was Bab al-Azizia compound, now a base for rebel fighters who kept the biggest surprises.
A house where they killed the dictator's adopted daughter, Hana, in a U.S. bombing in 1986 had become a shrine, built with glass cases on the bed and other furniture for conservation as they were immediately after the attack.
The spectacle of the most incongruous of all in the "House of Strength", as Qadhafi called the bombed building was the dummy missiles hanging from the ceiling as if just fallen from an American bomber - the idea of a monument to the girl, maybe.
Overseas, Qadhafi had built his own amusement park, carousel and spinning teacups, in an echo unlikely Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch.
And despite his apparent hatred of U.S. politicians, the personal effects of Gaddafi suggested he might have had a weakness for one of them looters discovered an album filled with pictures of him meeting, Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State USA.
