Two idiot tourists risk being banned from Venice after they were filmed swimming in front of its best-known cemetery.
The pair were spotted stripping off in front of the San Michele Cemetery on Wednesday (14 Aug) morning.
They left their clothes in front of the San Michele in Isola Church and got into the Venetian lagoon to frolic in the murky water.
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Irked commuters filmed the men as their vaporetto [public water bus] passed them by.
The footage spread quickly on social media, as reported by Need To Know.
Venice’s long-term residents are famously fed up with tourists, who outnumber the locals by 10 to one.
One particularly common gripe is when visitors jump into the Italian city’s unsanitary canals to cool off.
In the process, they put their health at risk and make life difficult for the locals who commute by boat.
People who violate local laws on navigation safety by getting into the canals face fines and urban banning orders.
Nicola commented: “Shameful. Rude. Ignorant.”
Maria added: “Shameful. No respect at all.”
Marti wrote: “I’m at a loss for words.”
More remarked: “In other countries, they’d have been arrested, fined heavily, and then sent home with a boot.”
But Valentina took a different tone.
She wrote: “It’s lèse-majesté for a swim in a city that’s been mismanaged for a decade, with no essential shops, just bars and bacari, stalls with fake Venetian crafts, pickpockets, and three-card monte games on the Accademia and Paglia bridges, drug dealing in Cannaregio and Santi Apostoli, no homes, fleeing residents, and an island that’s all about tourists.
“But, oh my God, they swim – what a disgrace.”
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