Italy stops UK tourist with Pompeii mosaic tiles

 

FILE photo//Source: Wikipedia

 

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

Really sad that people do something like this.

 

Glad she got caught.

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!

She probably wanted to put them in the British Museum, next to the Elgin Marbles.  Make Britain Great Again!

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

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.

She was probably looking to get a match at B&Q for the bathroom.

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!