The tourist caught on video defacing a wall of the Colosseum in #Rome by carving his and his partner’s names into it claims in an apology letter that he was unaware the nearly 2,000-year-old amphitheater was ancient.
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He smiled and knew, stop lying tramp. He should be arrested
Didn’t know? While a person seeing him doing it tells him to stop, he smiles for the video and continues carving. Flogging seems like an appropriate beginning for punishment.
Liar
Just fine the dude and move on ..make sure he pays and have a nice day ffs
Wow! This guy was that clueless?! Get him out of there!👢💥
Ah the English!
Doesn’t matter. He’s a defacer. He destroyed property. He should get the law thrown at him.
Even if it wasn’t ancient no need to put your initials on the building thats vandalism
Need to bring back the public caning
Unbelievable stupid disrespectful why why go home and carve on your walls
People have probably been doing that for hundreds of years
Graffiti is graffiti and these 20-somethings are just self-centered, disrespectful jerks to deface someone else’s property. Another example of children who received care from babymakers rather than from parents.😢
I didn’t know the colosseum was old….what
Well that’s a fkn Ivan for ya…
Looks like he was not the first pos that did this. Look closely on the bottom left side
I mean, you have to admit, the building looks just like any new McDonalds restaurant. How could have he known.
The problem is I know deep down that man has no clue how old the colosseum is, but still believe he deserves to be punished severely for his ignorance and his face.
I don’t believe it for a second he didn’t know what he was doing
Omg typical he’s from the UK smh, people like this make us ashamed to be British, we are not all the dense!!
Its obvious how valuable this monument is, without anyone saying a word. What a bad person
Moronic
Maybe he was on the tour of modern coliseums and accidentally got mixed in with the tour of accident coliseums.
He didn’t know? I mean it’s the friken colossuem, one of the most famous landmarks in the world. He knew what he was doing. Thought it would be awesome to have his name on something famous is exactly what happened.
As there’s thousands of others names carved all over it.
This is why I always try to be rude and possibly aggressive and look for fights when I meet British people around EU . Punching them do not cause problems.
Not respect at all for the country you visiting …..
BS excuse, fine him and get him to put in the hours to erase those names and restore as much as originally was
Five years will set an example🤔
He knew it was wrong. This generation is absolutely disgusting. He should have been jailed once getting back to his home country.
Side on side of Lack of air at birth….else whatever u cal it
Colosseum and didn’t know it was ancient? What a dumb MF!
Was it disrespectful? Yes. Jail is extreme. You guys have no compassion. It’s not that deep no matter how much you guys feel he should have known better. You guys are probably the same ppl who think that Otto kid deserved to be jailed and ended up a vegetable when he came home. You guys are also probably the same ppl who hate cancel culture. He should be explained why he was wrong and taught about the history, not jailed. Banned for a little while but not jail. We are the same Americans who say ppl shouldn’t go to jail for non violent crimes. Everyone is too busy wanting to teach ppl a lesson. And then when it’s you, you feel you deserve compassion. I’m hoping for this guy to realize what he did and move on with his life!
What a liar!
He knew it was ancient it’s why he put it on there cause it would be there forever but they should just break that brick out put a new one in
These days people have money to travel on a three week vacation before they learn about the places they’re visiting. It used to be the other way around.
Lawyer told him to send the gov an apology letter 😭
Why would they even do that to begin with smh that’s so childish
You can tell from that stupid smug of his that this isn’t his first time.
Ban him from all tourist spots on earth
If he didn’t know then why did he do it.
They can etch it off yes?
Why do it in first place you don’t see any other names on there. What a big head
Human beings have gotten so stupid I bet in the 40s people didn’t do stuff like this
probably brazilians
Charge him. Stupidity isn’t a defense.
He’s face shows he knew, he was doing something that he shouldn’t. Now days, attention its more important then respect. He should not be able to visit other cultures if its not showing any respect to them.
Regardless I don’t think his life should be destroyed for one dumb mistake
So he’s stupid and ignorant,great combo!
You can see all the old etches in the bricks
You can tell he knew
“Love makes you do stupid things” 😂😂
You deserve to be locked up in jail
What a shame
Well now you know, 🤡
WISE A**
Que se scarf his nalgas
Now we all know he is stupid🤮
“I thought they built it in 2003?”
The smile says it all
He knew he was Stupid!
ignorance and entitlement at its finest.
This dude is a coward. Should have told him to stop.
Fine the dummy $10000!
He wouldnt have done that in North Korea …😂😂😂
Hogwash! Everyone knows how old ot is.
What happened to selfies 🤔🫢?
He should be on the next episode of “locked up abroad!!!!”
Not knowing doesn’t make it not a crime.
Not a big deal . People need to lighten up
Yeah I love how they focus on him but the Italian police can pull you over and steal your laptop and you would never see it again. They don’t put that in the media but okay!
Entitled English as usual
People get dumber and dumber these days smh
I knew it was ancient when I was like 5 years old. And regardless of if he knew the age or not you don’t go defacing ANYTHING that you do not own. Hopefully this dude wasn’t American, were already hated an laughed at by the world enough thanks to our fake president.
Stupid people are common place, no one should be surprised.
Ignorànce Is the worst disease
Even his excuse is childlike.
Hey dude respect whenever you visit another country
Don’t worry it’s in Europe so nothing will happen to the criminal
Poor guy!! He made a mistake, whole the world now knows not to carve into things,let him pay a fine and continue our lives pleaze!
Just grind his teeth against it until it’s gone
That’s why you don’t tour places without having basic background information on the area you are going to. This world is just full of attention seekiing clowns now. I hope you paid a huge fine for this
He definitely knew You’re there to see the coliseum You know it’s ancient
Whew. I thought he was jerk American. Glad he’s a jerk Brit.
Dumbell
Dämlich
What kind of simpleton doesn’t know the Roman Colosseum is nearly 2,000 years old?
Whatever. He knew. He should be charged
He’s a yank not English 😅
They don’t care
FFS man! Bring a sharpie next time.
Throw him into the middle of the thing with a couple of lions
I’m so sick and tired of these entitled brats that think they can do whatever they want and face the consequences.
10 years in prison
He got charged right?!?!….
What a dork