U.S. Tourists Arrested For Carving Their initials Into Rome’s Colosseum

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Two tourists from California were arrested in the Italian capital, Rome, on Saturday for allegedly engraving their initials into the ancient Colosseum and posing for a selfie, Italian media reported.

The women, aged 21 and 25, allegedly left their tour group and used a coin to engrave the letters J and N some 3-inches high into the walls of the ancient World Heritage site, La Stampa newspaper reported.

The pair were spotted by other tourists and reported to security, with police charging the women with “aggravated damage on a building of historical and artistic interest.”

“We apologize for what we did,” the pair reportedly said. “We regret it, but we did not imagine it was something so serious.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/idiots-abroad#.pcNRa7WxN

[LiberalElite]

1. .

[Journeyman]

2. Buzzfeed's link title says it all: "Idiots Abroad" . . .

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. idiots

[NYC_SKP]

4. And then they took a selfie. I say 20,000 Euro fines or jail are in order.

A Russian tourist was recently fined 20,000 Euro for the same type of offense.

Ugly tourists.

[cbayer]

15. I say ban them from entering Europe in the future.

[NYC_SKP]

16. Can we ban them from coming back here?

Trying to think of a country that deserves them.

North Korea?

[cbayer]

18. Lol, North Korea sounds right.

I am figuring they are classless spoiled brats. North Korea should be a big wake up call.

[uppityperson]

5. Why would anyone think defacing a nearly 2000 year old Heritage site serious?

Idiots.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Well, not as serious as spilling chocolate milk on her blouse or mussing her hair.

THAT'S serious.

Idiots.

[Triana]

7. Idiots abroad indeed.

..."we did not imagine it was something so serious.”

[malaise]

17. Self absorbed morons for whom nothing is more important

than their love of self.

[Malraiders]

8. The arrogance of knowing it was wrong and thinking - but it's no big deal. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Double the fine for being that stupid.

How anyone older than about five in any universe could imagine that was an OK thing to do is beyond me.

[hifiguy]

10. That hits about 5 megastupids

on the Stupidometer.

[NV Whino]

11. Fine them, throw them in jail for a couple of days

And most important, erase their selfie. That'll teach 'em.

[notadmblnd]

12. Well lady, how serious do you think it would be if strangers came to your home

and wrote on your garage door? Ya think ya'd have a serious problem with it?

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. Stay over there permanently, losers.

It would mean two less morans to deal with back home.

[cbayer]

14. Idiots. They didn't think it was so serious?

I also saw people carving into trees in Yosmite.

[City Lights]

19. UGLY Americans.

What douche bags. Ugh.

[sakabatou]

20. *headdesk*

[CTyankee]

21. Oh boy. That really makes me furious...but then I realize that tourists have been

doing this shit for AGES, going back to antiquity. It seems to be a human oddity to want to immortalize yourself in a place you have been. Sorry to say, this has been going on for centuries...think of places like Sicily, where there were so many invaders since ancient times that wanted to carve their names into stone and did so.
I can imagine Napoleon's armies doing the same in ancient cities...and probably WW2 soldiers in Europe.

Not an apologist for them because I truly think the ancient places should be sacrosanct. We should let them alone and just BE.

[Puglover]

22. Idiots

But nothing new. At the top of the Strasbourg Cathedral the inside walls is covered with carved graffiti. Some from the 1600's.

Sadly these idjits don't seem to realize it's 2015.

[MisterP]

23. hey, it being 2015 doesn't make us any less tacky (quite the opposite, I'd thijnmo

[whatchamacallit]

24. Another embarrassed to be an American moment

These days they seem to be the rule rather than the exception.

[lpbk2713]

25. They're sorry they got caught.

If they hadn't been caught they would still be laughing about it.

I hope the US Embassy loses their paperwork and forgets about them.

[MADem]

26. What ASSHOLES!!!!!! I hate when nitwits give us a bad name!!!!!!!!

"...did not imagine it was something so serious?" Would they do that to any of our "new" monuments, like the Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial or Statue of Liberty? How about slapping that John Henry up on the Holocaust Museum, or one of the exhibits in the Smithsonian?

How stupid can anyone be?

At least we're not the only ones...a stupid Russian tourist carved a big fat ten inch K in the Flavian Amphitheater three months ago, so USA has got some company in the dumbass department.

[Nye Bevan]

27. 30 days in an Italian jail,

then being kicked out and banned from ever returning, would probably be an appropriate punishment.