Posted on 07/17/2023 8:14:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
When in Rome … another tourist has defaced the Colosseum.
A Swiss girl carved her initials into the iconic amphitheater — less than a month after another tourist stunningly defaced the ancient landmark with his and his fiancée’s names
Police have launched an investigation after Italian tour guide David Battaglino captured video of the unidentified 17-year-old girl carving the letter “N” into the wall, La Repubblica reported.
The footage posted on Twitter by Italian news agency ANSA shows the blond girl, whose face is blurred, using an object to carve the letter before she backs off amid the attention.
“It is the first time I have managed to film an act of vandalism at the Colosseum but in six years I have seen dozens,” he told the local news outlet.
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Perhaps if her face wasn’t blurred they could find her easier.
Did she carve holes in it?.................
I don’t share the exaggerated respect for antiquity. The Colosseum is a crime scene from Ancient Rome, a place where people were murdered. In my opinion the Italians should demolish it and replace it with a monument to the victims who were murdered there.
Too young to be held responsible for this, but can chop her boobs off or get abortions…
Time will win. Time always wins…
People are why we can’t have nice things.
I would expect more maturity from the Swiss.
Rome should bring back the gladiators and lions to throw these mutants to.
I have never understood the need to paint or carve one’s name onto an object. Do some feel the need to mark their territory like a dog? Do they often read the names of others who have passed their way? (“Wow, Don was here, too!”)
Back around 1980 I visited the Statue of Liberty. I went up into the head of the statue. The hole inside was covered with peoples names and initials.
hole should be WHOLE. Dare auto correct.
The Ugly American.
Let me try this again since my original comment got removed.
The Colosseum is in and of itself, a monument to the victims and a site of great historical significance.
And demolishing it would be just as much of an insult to the victims who perished there as would bulldozing Auschwitz down to the ground and putting up a simple plaque would be, or turning the Gettysburg battlefield into a resort and theme park and high-density housing track with a little roadside monument, or wanting the Sistine Chapel torn down because of some the past abuses levied by the Catholic Church.
Not to mention that destroying ancient historical sites is something the Taliban and ISIS did.
Let’s not do that.
Yes, let’s erase all history that makes use feel uncomfortable. Keep the ones that make you feel comfortable, until it doesn’t then tear it down next.
agreed, all history should not be wiped out, including the confederate flag, names on High Schools. heck in Albany the just removed the Philip Schuyler statue in front of city hall, he had slaves....they forgot he was a revolutionary war HERO.
Most gladiatorial events weren’t fatal. That’s a Hollyweird invention. Making them fatal would be like entering your Ferrari in a demolition derby. Most of the events were racing and animal fights - animal vs animal, man vs animal, etc. This is something that still goes on - bullfighting,
dog fighting, etc. Immoral by our modern standards but once very common. Public executions there did occur & Christians to the lions was very rare again in spite of Hollyweird and religious traditions.
You make a good point. The Colosseum as history might be worth preserving, like Auschwitz; but not as an object of pride.
Here in the USA, when schools become mass-murder sites, the tendency has been to replace them https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/us/schools-after-mass-shootings-uvalde-texas/index.html .
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us... - Monty Python’s Life of Brian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
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