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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 10:46 AM Feb 2016

MEANWHILE, in Italy.....

Bidet hurled from window in attempted murder over children's football game

It came to symbolise Italian pride over other cultures supposedly lesser attentive to hygiene but a bidet was spectacularly misused in an alleged attempted murder near Naples. Police have arrested 45-year-old Domenico Cammarota on suspicion he threw the bathroom fixture out of a window, hitting another man on the head during a brawl over a children's football game.

The bizarre incident took place in the usually quiet coastal town of Pozzuoli, just outside Naples. A group of local children were playing football on a pitch overlooking the sea when a dirty foul sparked a heated argument.


Families soon got involved and parents of one of the children decided to protest outside their son's rival's house. As tensions and shouting escalated, neighbours called police who arrived at the scene just in time to witness Cammarota hurling a bidet out of the first-floor flat.

The porcelain hit one of the protesters below to the head. The man fell unconscious and was taken to a local hospital. Cammarota, who was known to authorities, has been taken into custody and is facing attempted murder charges.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/italy-bidet-hurled-window-attempted-murder-over-chidrens-football-game-1541276
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MEANWHILE, in Italy..... (Original Post) Blue_Tires Feb 2016 OP
Gotta update my Clue set to now include a bidet!! Coventina Feb 2016 #1
"Lavatorial history of Italy" Donkees Feb 2016 #2
As my italian father told his irish brother-in-law Drahthaardogs Feb 2016 #3
OMG !!! Just let the little squirts play. !!!! clarice Feb 2016 #4

Coventina

(27,101 posts)
1. Gotta update my Clue set to now include a bidet!!
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 11:35 AM
Feb 2016

Jokes aside, I hope the poor guy hit with it recovers!!

Donkees

(31,381 posts)
2. "Lavatorial history of Italy"
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:53 PM
Feb 2016

Italian Plumbing
The peninsula of Italy has a long lavatorial history, what with the Romans and their obsessions with water.

http://toilet-guru.com/italy.php

Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)
3. As my italian father told his irish brother-in-law
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 07:58 PM
Feb 2016

"My people had flushing toilets while your people were still fighting over the deer antler"....

Plumbing is in our blood

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