Only in Remuera. "A whole boat left out for inorganic collection," writes James.
Selfie sinks tourist vandals
While committing a mindless criminal act two Californian tourists just had to take a selfie. According to reports from Italian media, the two women, aged 21 and 25, carved their initials 7cm high into the Colosseum in Rome and, thanks to the selfie, were quickly arrested. Though signs against vandalism are posted all over the site in Italian and English, the girls said they didn't realise defacing a 2085-year-old relic was such big a deal. A Russian tourist caught carving a letter at the site three months ago was fined about €20,000 ($29,500). (Source: news.com.au)
School for scoundrels
Inorganic collection-time tips: Jo writes: "When you dump your general household rubbish, including bags of organic material and something that is trussed in an old duvet cover (shudder) on a berm that is a long way from yours, don't put your child's Southern Cross school books out. Angela [last name withheld] do you want to keep these? Your parents obviously don't."
Tweet goes down badly
In 2012, prior to leaving on a holiday to Los Angeles, Leigh van Bryan, an Irishman living in Britain, tweeted the following message: "Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America? and 3 weeks today, we're totally in LA p****** people off on Hollywood Blvd and diggin' Marilyn Monroe up!" When van Bryan and girlfriend Emily Bunting landed at LAX, Homeland Security detained them for five hours and confiscated their passports. The pair explained that "destroy America" is slang for getting drunk and rowdy, and clarified that the Marilyn Monroe reference was from the animated American television show Family Guy, but authorities remained stone faced and even searched their bags for spades and shovels. The next morning they were put on a plane back to the UK. (Via neatorama.com)
