Italians Do It Better

Even vandalism, apparently. While the point of this very pedestrian story is to report on how a group of very bored (and, surely, quite drunk) Florentines busted a 15th century statue while trying to climb it (in full view of several security cameras), there is in fact a nugget of wonderment buried therein. See, this same statue has fallen victim to vandalism in the past-- broken/stolen horse bits, soccer-related painting episodes, etc. The greatest moment, however, came in 1991 when

"a man wearing only underpants climbed up the statue in a bid to remove the spiky ring of metal which authorities had placed on its head to keep pigeons and their excrement off it."

Wow. Where to begin? First of all, he's wearing "underpants!" Who says "underpants?" Second, he's a streaker! Except shy. Third, he's a humanitarian! Worried about flying rats.

Alls I'm saying is, the world is wonderful place. And Italians just make it that much better. (I mean, did you see how hot the cop in all the news reports about the captured London bomber was? Jesus.)