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When in Rome, DON'T DO THIS!
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A couple of sharp tool ladies said they didn't think it was that serious carving their initials into the COLOSSEUM! Yea, that is bad enough but they were also sharp enough to take a selfie! Come on Californians, you can represent better than this when overseas.
http://nypost.com/2015/03/08/american-to...ok-selfie/ 
Should have tattooed 'Vandal' across their foreheads.
I don't think it deserves that, but some jail time and a huge fine. How fucking stupid. That would be like saying "What's the big deal, we only carved our initials in Tut's mask." Fucking retards!
 RE: When in Rome, DON'T DO THIS!
March 9, 2015 at 8:15 am
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2015 at 8:18 am by Lucanus.)
It's not like Italians don't do it either... In fact, they usually do worse.
If I was in my hometown right now, I could snap a couple of photos of some buildings of the old town... Which by the way is UNESCO World Heritage
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Every village has their idiots. I went to Washington DC once. Out of the many things I did there, none of them involved putting my initials on historic monuments!
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
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Well I think religious nuts take it too far when there are merely gestures, and or protests done with private property owned by the protestor. That kid in PA on the statue of Jesus didn't damage it, it just pissed people off. I have a picture somewhere of me at the LA Observatory sticking my finger up the nose of a statue of James Dean. I think it is also stupid to get pissed at blasphemy like the cross in a jar of urine, or depictions of Mo, or even flag burning.
Common law prevents you from destroying things you do not own. But that should not include blasphemy laws or dissenting protests where no one is damaging property they don't own. 
I was there just a few months ago, and I completely forgot to sign it as well.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
 (March 9, 2015 at 8:45 am)Brian37 Wrote: Well I think religious nuts take it too far when there are merely gestures, and or protests done with private property owned by the protestor. That kid in PA on the statue of Jesus didn't damage it, it just pissed people off. I have a picture somewhere of me at the LA Observatory sticking my finger up the nose of a statue of James Dean. I think it is also stupid to get pissed at blasphemy like the cross in a jar of urine, or depictions of Mo, or even flag burning. Totally agree. As for these "scratchers", maybe one day a method of recording events will be discovered so that physical marking will no longer be needed... Feel free to send me a private message.
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Humans will always "scratch" legally and ignorantly. Our species is tribal and just like lions we piss on trees to mark our territory. We don't like seeing other labels as equal and that is where the destructive side of our evolution comes from. These stupid girls certainly did not do it with the same intent as Isis, but it is still coming from a place of vanity.
I didn't see it happen, but the missus and I were in Athens when a USian tourist was nicked for hammering bits off of the Library of Hadrian.
Fuxxake, yanks - don't you lot ever go anywhere and just look at stuff? Boru
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