American tourist banned for life from Rome Heritage Spanish steps featured in film "Roman Holiday"

[Demovictory9]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/08/us-tourist-scooter-damage-rome-spanish-steps



US tourist throws scooter down Rome’s Spanish Steps, causing €25,000 damage
Incident at world heritage site comes fortnight after another tourist drove a Maserati down the steps



American woman, 28, is banned from Rome's 18th-century Spanish Steps for life after she and friend caused $26,000 worth of damage by driving their e-scooters on the heritage site

The 18th century steps have recently undergone a $1.5million restoration
Cops said Tuesday the damage sustained to the famous marble stairway will cost at least $26,000 to repair--

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Cops eventually caught up with the 28-year-old, as well as an also unidentified male companion, who is seen in the footage recklessly wheeling his own scooter down the storied stairs, featured in the Aubrey Hepburn-led 1953 classic Roman Holiday.

The pair were reportedly then fined $430 by police who viewed further security footage of the incident, which saw the woman inexplicably launch the rented vehicle down the steps. Police said the man was also an American, aged 29.

The Spanish Steps serve as one of the most guarded tourist sites in the Italian capital, with police prohibiting people from sitting on them back in 2018.

Cops said Tuesday the damage sustained to the famous marble stairway as a result of the woman's actions will cost at least $26,000 to repair.

Authorities said the scooter cracked the monument’s 16th and 29th steps, while also chipping other sections of the storied staircase.




https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10897099/American-tourist-causes-25-000-damage-throwing-electric-scooter-Romes-Spanish-Steps.html

[TigressDem]

1. Karen!!!

That is ONE EXPENSIVE act of PMS irrational irritation.

[Demovictory9]

3. lol... it appears she does have a Karen hairdoo

[whathehell]

10. Yeah, 'cause we never sees the Kens of the world, acting out

their testosterone poisoning with dumb, destructive
shit like this

[TigressDem]

12. NO they use GUNS because that's more macho.

[whathehell]

14. ..but, but, that's SO much less harmful than messing up

an historic staircase.

[TigressDem]

18. Possiblly less expensive.

You can't repair people when they are dead.

Their worth is more, but you can't put them back together.

[whathehell]

21. Lovely sentiment..

[TigressDem]

22. Hard to find something nice to say some days.

Sorry.

[Karadeniz]

2. Stunted souls.

[Hassler]

4. Ugly Americans are never in short supply.

[Skittles]

6. as an American child in England I cringed at some behavior I saw

UGH

[whathehell]

17. As an adult American in the tourist industry, I cringe at

some of the foreign behavior I see.

[whathehell]

13. Bullshit..

There are no more "ugly" Americans than there are Ugly Brits, Ugly Frenchman, Ugly Russians..Those who doubt this, obviously don't get out much.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

27. You ain't wrong! Having traveled to more than 100 countries, there is no question that Americans

have not cornered the asshole tourist market.

[whathehell]

28. Thank you..

I, too have traveled a lot..too much to buy into that tired old stereotype of the "ugly American".

[SergeStorms]

15. That good old American exceptionalism.

Whenever I'm abroad I identify myself as Canadian in casual conversations.

There's no way I want to be lumped in with people like this, and there's way too many of them to begin with.

They see ancient cultures and countries as being backward or antiquated. They're certainly not hip, cool, avant guarde Americans, that's for sure.

[Tom Kitten]

5. USA!!! USA!!!

Way to go, ambassadors of American exceptionalism!

[whathehell]

20. Are we done with the 5 Minute American Self Hate yet?

Why must this one young woman represent ALL Americans? Is it because you're naive enough to believe the Euro Twenty Somethings are all models of decorum and restraint?

[Tom Kitten]

24. Sheesh

Get a life

[whathehell]

25. You 'get a life'.

one that, hopefully, is unmarred by the kind of pathetic, knee jerk self hatred I often see here.

[Tom Kitten]

29. I'm quite fine thank you

Don't need no lecture from the likes of you. Didn't care for your personal attack.
Putting you on ignore,stay away from me.

[whathehell]

30. Lol..Fine with me.

[BigDemVoter]

7. Why don't they make that piece of shit pay $26,000, the cost to repair the stairs, rather

than a mere $430 fine?

[Demovictory9]

8. Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday, on the steps

[Roland99]

9. Was gonna be in Rome all day Friday and flying home Sat

But that’s pushed back a week

Probably will be there to see them at some point

What a maroon

[BluesRunTheGame]

11. You can almost think that you're seein' double...

… On a cold, dark night on the Spanish stairs

[halfulglas]

19. The irony of the term "Ugly American" is that the namesake in the book

The Ugly American was not a tourist acting in an ugly manner embarrassing this country but an an American living in an Asian village who unobtrusively made life better for his neighbors but was referred to by his neighbors as such because his looks didn't fit in with the village even though he was respectful of them and their customs. But the title has come to refer to these boorish disrespectful Americans who think they are entitled to act in any way they wish because they are Americans or rich or on vacation or whatever that makes the rest of us cringe. Now we realize they have metastasized also staying home as Karens and their male counterpart.

[UTUSN]

23. So brain development age is being pushed past 28/29?

[FakeNoose]

26. These ugly Americans should be paying the entire repair cost

Why are the police only charging them fines of $430 when their actions caused damages worth 500x that amount?