Italian authorities are looking for a tourist who left graffiti on a wall of the Colosseum in Rome. He faces a fine and possible jail if convicted.
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#Rome #Colosseum #Italy
The way he smiled just shows how entitled he is. Hope they find him
Yep. Bulgarian living in Bristol uk. Should be extradited and jailed.
“I was here 29AD, Jesus”
Jesus was never in Rome.
@Dave Mathews There is no record of him being in Rome other than the postcard of the colosseum he sent to his disciples. He wrote “Pizza, a new peasant food made of dough and scraps and baked is great, rip off prices though, wish you were here, Jesus”
@Grumble Woof “This wine is my blood. This pizza is my body.”
@Grumble Woofyou are a very disrespectful person ,not only you insult the italians but you go out of your way to insult our Lord to you guys everything is one BIG joke
I watch dogs are impressive who? He anonymous people.
STUPID TOURISTS, dude thought he was at Burning Man
Reminds me of tourists taking selfies in front of the ovens at Auschwitz.
@mintymusgraffiti on his box would be an improvement
@OberynTheRedViper In ancient Rome it was vandalism and is now too dumbo
The same types of simpletons who do that could not tell you what year WW2 began, or ended.
@Good Yeoman Or who the major belligerent countries were.
@Dave Mathews So true. I get that not everyone is a history junkie, but I work with people who thought Ukraine was in a different continent.
idk why they even list the possible punishments for this type of stuff when we all know he is just gonna get a small fine and maybe community service smh
That’s not how Italy works.
Dude is LITERALLY graffitti-ing like the ancient Roman,s did. The plebs would have approved….
What are you even talking about?
It’s hardly noticeable unless you stand up close to the wall and squint I mean at least he didn’t use paint or do it in massive letters,
It’s a crime and so Stupid!
Didn’t say American tourist.
Because it’s not an American tourist…
Too thin to be an American, I’m guessing
As an over weight American I also concur.
@Jeff Brown Why does everyone think he has to be American British or Irish?
The “Ugly American” is well known abroad.
Be smart. Don’t get caught.
Be even smarter and don’t deface other peoples’ property like an uncultured ape.
He misspelled. What he meant to write was “Scum was here.”
Oh stop this is harmless and you can barely see it. If you follow the rules with everything in your life it must be dull.
😂😂😂
Ban him from the U.S.! Typical Russian tourist that would harass a baby bison or bear cub in Yellowstone just to impress his girlfriend and put it on YT!
Anyone in Bristol whose a fan of architecture might want to leave a note on Ivan’s car.
@HeatherWell how about I break a rule right now by carving my name in tiny tiny letters on your car? Or your house wall? Obviously that will alleviate my dull little life and I’ll be an exciting person just like you 😂😂😂
If he wants something for posterity, maybe he could be introduced to a branding iron with ‘don’t carve on the Colosseum’
His name is Ivan, not an American name. Whatever, let us hope he is found and given some time in jail plus a monetary fine. I am certain he will be recognized by the employees of a hotel or where ever he is staying. Of course someone who knows him will gladly “turn him in”. A jerk like him has acquaintances, not friends.
Idle hands are a devil’s workshop
You can’t let democrat lib biden voters out of their safe spaces….they do not know how to act civil in those situations!
Isn’t that a crime?
No respect……what if all tourists do that??
The colosseum was built by thousands of Jewish slaves, within it, thousands of people were pointlessly murdered, killed, tortured, as well as animals just for fun.
If this thing was built 100 years ago it would have been knocked to the ground. They pull down slave owner statues everywhere these days in the US and Europe. Yet, because it’s free much older writing on it is bad. Don’t exactly get the double standards.
Ivan’s in a bit of strife…rightly so
What is this man’s name?
Ivan. His girlfriend is Hayley
@PhoenixFiremouse
Thank You
@Ernado Shaw🇲🇽 Ivan Dimitrov
This simply could be a person who is a waste of space and air on the planet. Earth has at the very least 65% of those kinds of people. But let me give this person a little credit. Maybe he is scribing his mark like cave people did and in a million years someone will discover it and think he saw aliens and was trying to record it for future generations 👍
Well, the video was made and submitted by one Brian Lutz. Let’s find him, because this dude is his friend. I hope that SHITB*G is arrested, and held without bail. As Brian’s voice has an American accent, we know which country he is from. Simply put a travel ban on Brian Lutz, from USA, and you will catch his worthless friend.
Brian just recorded but was no friend of the guy (Ivan Dimitrov from Bristol – who originated from Bulgaria) doing the bad deed. In fact Brian provided the video to the site security as evidence.
@Dangerous DanOnce the Bulgarian has been extradited from the UK and served his sentence in Italy he will not be allowed to re-enter the UK because he will have a criminal record. The only way he might get back in is by rubber dingy over the channel from France, if successful he will get a five star hotel room, bed, food, Wi-Fi, free health care and petty cash.
I wont say that americans are entitled, but if we hear one more time that “you are americans” in the “tone” usually used. ….. tourists come to Europe and have NO idea how to behave, and they complain about things overhere in Europe. Where we do some things differently. I live where you can drink in public because we can manage it and have always been able to, but when the americans come they really cannot hold it under control. It is a privilegie not a mandate. And this right here is an example. The same with the very old places we have in many cities – where we have signs with “no padlocks” and you can rest assured that if you see a padlock it is put in place by americans because why follow a rule they feel is strange. (But there for a reason)
@Morty Jansen The chap’s name is Ivan and he is Bulgarian..
@blazednlovinit last news we saw here was they identified him as British But guess they know more now. Being Bulgarian is strange he should have been brought up with an understanding of these extremely old things. But hope they fine him vigorously.
@Morty Jansen Bulgaria was invaded by Muslims and had lots of its older stuff destroyed, it makes sense to me that they have no respect for it
He was Bulgarian.
Most of the American tourists I met were very polite and friendly. Can’t say the same about my fellow Brits. Germans are awful, as are the French. Russians are hated in Thailand and egypt, too, for their coarse behaviour.
Well at least his girlfriend will be single in a few weeks 😅
Neah, simple types like her always gravitate to controlling narcs like Ivan Dimitrov.
When in rome
I wonder if their love will last 5 years?
No, she was embarrassed and dumped him 😂
Pensava di essere a disneyland
Hope they find him????? He was right there being filmed doing it. Had the camera person not filmed and got someone who could do something, he wouldn’t have to be found. People will video an atrocity, but won’t even get someone to stop the atrocity. To me, that person is just as guilty. They really don’t care to entervien. They just want some recognition from posting the video. People are freakn starved for attention. It’s sad asl.
It’s a Bulgarian **** by the name of Ivan Dimtrov. Lives in Bristol, UK.
Apparently they are two English tourists, called Ivan and Haley
The guy is Bulgarian
Italian police are saying that this POS resides in England. However, he’s not British, his name is Ivan Dimitrov and he’s an Eastern European immigrant from Bulgaria. The UK authorities should extradite him to Italy and never allow him to re-enter the UK again. I’m fed up with the behaviour of Eastern European immigrants in the UK and Western Europe. They forever walk around with an air-of-entitlement and are really disrespectful. I wish we could deport them back to their impoverished ex-communist countries.
He only put his name and the team he supports on it! It’s not a big deal imo. It’s an old building anyway and it’s not like he wrote on a new one though. It just goes to show the authorities there are over zealous and cannot take a joke. The authorities there reacted to it like a coked up bunch of thugs if yer ask me, not that you did ask me, but if I was asked that’s what I’d say. We should be free to do what we want and that’s a fact.
Are you for real, surely you are making a joke, no one can really be so stupid.
Well done! God bless Ivan!❤
We’ll be keeping your marbles, apparently Greeks would vandalise them and congratulate each other 🙂
– Love from UK
He needs to go back to Putin and his Russian comrades!! Don’t ever come to America!
It wasn’t a British tourist, the guy was a Bulgarian presently residing in Bristol in the UK hence the confusion but really the Italian authorities and media should check their facts before attaching blame. I dare say he will be arrested by the British on his return if he hasn’t been already and sent back to Italy for prosecution.
Yes, I hate it that they call him British. His bimbo gf is though,
@Good Yeoman in fairness, her only crime is not chastising him for it
@blazednlovinit Which reveals a lot about her personality in itself. Not the type of people I’d ever want to be around, that’s for sure.
@Good Yeoman Probably, but all that is beside the point t if she didn’t commit an offense
@blazednlovinit The Carabinieri said she is a potential accomplice. So there is a potential legal offense. Not to mention the moral offense of standing by and doing nothing while her disgusting bg vandalised the Colosseum.
If that was a country like China, North Korea and Singapore he would have been jailed for the disrespect.
Grinning buffoon. I’d have kicked up a massive scene if I was there. Shame on the bystanders for not forcing him to stop straight away.
Such a stupid thing to do😡
He’s the look of a knobhead
They probably not even together after this…
I would had beaten him up for that smirk
Absolutely no mercy make an example of him or it will never end
Americans have a bad reputation abroad, but in this case it was the American who was filming that lead to the identity of this Bulgarian man and UK woman who did this
Think she’ll stay with him while he goes to prison?