The Mayor of Venice has threatened badly behaved visitors with a night in prison after a drunken Kiwi tourist jumped off the city's famed Rialto Bridge and smashed into a passing water taxi.
The tourist, a New Zealander who lives most of the year in St Tropez on the Cote d'Azur, was reportedly drunk when he decided to hurl himself off the stone bridge, which spans the Grand Canal.
But instead of dropping into the water, he landed on a water taxi that was passing beneath the bridge at the time.
The force of the impact smashed the boat's windshield and scattered broken glass across the prow.
The 49-year-old man, believed to be working on a yacht that was visiting Venice, not only badly injured himself but also hurt the driver of the water taxi. He was taken to a local hospital and treated for fractures and severe trauma.