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Tourist faces $24,550 fine for carving his and girlfriend’s name into Colosseum (www.news.com.au)
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A tourist filmed carving his and his girlfriend’s name into the walls of the Roman Colosseum faces a huge fine as Italian authorities vow to find the man.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The colosseum is Roman though, not greek

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eh, it's not all that different. Hercules, Heracles, let's call the whole thing off!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tomatus, tomatos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Your comment made me giggle more than it should have. Good work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

manticore were in fact persian, and known to the romans all the same. (and ArugalaZ, it was a monster with a human head, body of a lion, and a tail either like a venomous porcupine or that of a scorpion.)