• @meanmon13
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    401 year ago

    What really gets me is he carves their names into a structure and adds the date. The date was 23… As if 23 means anything to a structure that was built by people who were around in the actual year 23.

    • @solrize
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      41 year ago

      They would have written XXIII.

      • tal
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        41 year ago

        Pretty sure that at that point, they weren’t dating things off Christ’s birth.

        looks

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar

        After the institution of the Roman Empire, regnal dates based on the emperors’ terms in office became more common. Some historians of the later republic and early imperial eras dated from the legendary founding of the city of Rome (ab urbe condita or AVC).[32]

        So it’d be more like the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius.

  • @DoctorTYVM
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    301 year ago

    The best part of this is that they signed their names and filmed it. Like, if you’re going to commit a crime, maybe don’t document it? idk

    • MentalEdge
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      1 year ago

      Looks like it might not have been filmed the actual couple doing it, but by a bystander. They’re being told off for it, as the guy does it, too.

      Still, these people are culturally brain-dead, and unable to grasp the concept of respect.

  • @DevCat
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    181 year ago

    Every Italian grandmother should be allowed to line up and spank him, with a frying pan.

  • @positiveWHAT
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    41 year ago

    Can we give him to ISIS? They could enjoy destroying historical structures together.

  • theinspectorst
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    21 year ago

    Italy’s culture minister says a tourist who was filmed carving his and his girlfriend’s names into the Colosseum in Rome should be “identified and sanctioned”.

    If only he left behind some permanent evidence of his identity.

  • NotAPenguin
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    11 year ago

    The guy who filmed it said they talked to a guard about it and they didn’t seem to give a fuck…

    So if the angry officials actually care they should probably be funding better guards and training for them.

  • keeb420
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    01 year ago

    Should’ve carved a penis. It’d be the same thing and the Roman’s would approve.

  • PhineaZ
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    -131 year ago

    Tbf, Italy (or rather Rome) did not take care of the Colosseum for the most part of its history. Heck, carving your name and/or a penis into it pretty much has a tradition now, and as much as I hate destruction of historical or cultural objects the Colosseum is probably one of the monuments where it hurts the least. That still doesn’t make it legally or morally right, but it’s not as bad as it could be.