A tourist filmed carving his and his girlfriend’s name into the walls of the Roman Colosseum faces a huge fine as Italian authorities vow to find the man.
- threeduck ( @threeduck@aussie.zone ) 18•1 year ago
Sharing articles from news.com.au profits fear-mongering Rupert Murdoch.
Install the Bye Rupert extension to deprive the fetid turd of income.
Ooo thanks for the heads up. I was somehow unaware it was part of his spiders web.
- doctortofu ( @doctortofu@kbin.social ) 14•1 year ago
I genuinely and unironically think vandalism like this should be grounds for cancellation of your passport for a while in addition to all other penalties (say, for 5 years). If you can’t play nice, you’re grounded and you don’t get to visit other countries until you grow up.
- Flaky_Fish69 ( @Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social ) 14•1 year ago
It’s the Collosseum. They should make them participate in gladiatorial games for tourists.
- Ronno ( @Ronno@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
For countries needing a passport, this might work, but in the EU? This won’t make much difference.
- Devi ( @Devi@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
You still need your passport to fly or travel outside the EU so it would have some affect.
- Ronno ( @Ronno@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Yes, but wat less. Most people don’t travel outside of the EU often
- Eggyhead ( @Eggyhead@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I think this is a reasonable idea. They’d need to find the guy first to figure out his passport details, but after that, fine him, deport him, then flag him against entry into the the EU for a designated amount of time.
- stopthatgirl7 ( @stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ) 11•1 year ago
I swear, too many folks go on vacation and leave their brains at home.
- Cahuin ( @Cahuin@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
That would mean you had a brain to being with
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@kbin.social ) 10•1 year ago
thats all. seems low. is it just the cost to repair?
- KbinItTogether ( @KbinItTogether@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
The article does say “and possible jail time” but from the ending paragraphs it sounds like the other tourists that carved their initials years ago just got a similar fine and a mark on their records.
It does seem low and I wonder if it scales at all or is a standard fine? At that rate, Jeff Bezos could go carve an entire autobiography into the place for an amount of money he wouldn’t even notice losing.
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
oh I forgot about the countries that scale fines with income. Sort wish mine did.
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
As penance for their crime, they must battle IN the Colosseum! A fight with gladiators, and lions, and various monsters of Greek mythology which are just two or three different animals smashed together! If they can survive the cattle man and the chicken lizard and whatever the heck a manticore is, they will be set free and given a ticket to New Zealand, where all shows set in Greece are filmed.
- JanoRis ( @JanoRis@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
The colosseum is Roman though, not greek
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Eh, it’s not all that different. Hercules, Heracles, let’s call the whole thing off!
- gonzo0815 ( @gonzo0815@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Tomatus, tomatos.
- Shift_ ( @Shift_@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Your comment made me giggle more than it should have. Good work.
- Flaky_Fish69 ( @Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
manticore were in fact persian, and known to the romans all the same. (and ArugalaZ, it was a monster with a human head, body of a lion, and a tail either like a venomous porcupine or that of a scorpion.)
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Will Shao Kahn be the announcer?
- pragma ( @pragma@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
That seems like a low price to pay to have your name immortalized in a monument.
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- supermurs ( @supermurs@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Do idiot things, win idiot prizes.
- dharwin ( @dharwin@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Che cazzo
- Silviecat44 ( @Silviecat44@vlemmy.net ) 1•1 year ago
That is disgusting and there should be a bigger fine. Some people did this to an Aboriginal rock painting in Australia and it made me so angry to think of the disrespect they display.
- mcgravier ( @mcgravier@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
This is a shitshow. Colloseum is being eroded by environmental effects day by day. You know hat the correct answer is? Maintainence. Its solves the issue of tuourists being morons too
- Saganastic ( @Saganastic@kbin.social ) 11•1 year ago
The colosseum is almost 2000 years old, it’s not getting eroded. At least not on a human time scale. Most of the damage present occurred during the Renaissance when people harvested marble from it for other stonework.
- dwindling7373 ( @dwindling7373@feddit.it ) English1•1 year ago
What do you mean “not on a human scale”? In your lifetime? Arguably not, on a human scale, absolutely yes.