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English tourist accused of carving name in Colosseum says he did not realise its age
(www.theguardian.com)
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Reminds me of the time we first visited Venice. Wife and I were admiring the splendour of St Marks Square (Piazza San Marco) and were stood next to some American tourists and overheard one say, "Oh my god this place is amazing; can you imagine how great its going to be in a few years when they finish it." There was zero construction work going on......
The first time I was at St Marks Square some Euro dude stripped to his underwear and started sunbathing. Police showed up and told him to put clothes on.
In some countries like Spain it is perfectly legal to be fully naked in any public space as long as you are not being sexually explicit. The Euro dude likely assumed this was the case in Italy as well -- I'm actually surprised that they had a problem with somebody in their underwear; it sounds prudish.
I don't know if it was time/place. This was early '80s and I was about 11 years old. I just thought it was pretty funny.
In Germany it can be an administrative offence, §118 OWiG, "Public Nuisance":
It's our "shout fire in a theatre" paragraph and its unspecificness makes for volumes of juridical precedent. I liked the old title better, "Grober Unfug", which more or less translates to "grand monkey business".
In any case cops would first have to check whether the public (not just any random person, them included) is disturbed. Though I don't think that precludes them from telling them to cut it out, that's an inalienable right of any German citizen, police or not.
They can tell them to cut it out, but they can't tell them to cut it out in the name of the law, which they would be doing if they were dressed as a police officer at the time and didn't specifically clarify.
Can they officially instruct them (belehren) that their private self would tell them to cut it out, or is that abuse of office?
For about a year I worked back and forth between Scotland (where I live) and herronberg (sorry for misspellings?). Gorgeous town. I hope to visit again . I know it’s weird to say it with your comment but I’ve never had the chance to say it to an actual German person, your country is fucking beautiful.I’ve had a chance to visit a couple of other places but I don’t know how to spell their names. Phonetically can say them.
I guess in Italy we do have some issue with prudishness, for instance in Milan community swimming pools, and in many other towns too like my small town, it is forbidden to shower without wearing swimsuit and it is also forbidden to be naked in t dressing/undressing rooms.
https://www.milanosport.it/istituzionali/regolamenti/ -> [PDF] Regolamento Piscine
Imagine me coming back from having lived in Copenhagen...
They probably thought the piazza lacked some McDonald's and Starbucks.