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Italy stops UK tourist with Pompeii mosaic tiles

 

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Italian police have detained a British woman suspected of removing some small Roman tiles from a mosaic at Pompeii.

 

Italian media say she was spotted cutting tiles - called tesserae - from a floor mosaic in the world-famous site's House of the Anchor. She was with her father and sister at the time.

 

The damage was estimated at €3,000 (£2,600) by the site's manager. Nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, killing many Pompeii residents and entombing a thriving city.

 

Fill story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47854399

 

-- BBC 2019-04-09

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1 hour ago, stevenl said:

Really sad that people do something like this.

 

Glad she got caught.

Name and shame! A picture on the front page of a newspaper would do wonders to stop this idiocy!

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1 hour ago, Tug said:

Don’t know how old she is but corporal punishment and public shaming is perhaps in order

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therefore the Father is technically not required to stop her breaking the Law.

Brainless Hooligans.

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True confessions time. I went to Chichen Itza, the ancient Mayan site in the Yucatan. While wandering around, I found some awesome pottery shards & pocketed them. They were pretty useless but I was consumed by guilt for the next few years. I mailed them back to Mexico's dept of antiquities and never had a reply. Good karma, though!  

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