Monday, January 7, 2008

AH, VENICE!


From "Buongiorno Venezia," a Venice news service to which I subscribe, comes this choice tidbit:


What a crazy night! It was named "Love in Venice 2008", a great - and cost-free - event for New Year's Eve with 90,000 people kissing in St. Mark's Square to set a Guinness world record, a moment which was broadcast around the world. A general feeling of love and peace, as well as a magic moment as lips met lips, was unfortunately spoilt in the end by a group of vandals who broke bottles and created a great deal of noise (the organisers have ensured stricter security measures for the 2009 celebrations). Luckily, nobody got hurt. But the New Year's Venetian celebration nearly ended in tragedy not far away: after the midnight kiss in St. Mark's Square, an Italian woman tourist attacked her girlfriend in the hall of a hotel in Mestre, stabbing her in her abdomen. Speculation is that it resulted from jealousy.


But, my question is...how did she get from Vencie to the Tea Shoppe in Vancouver so fast? And who put up her bail?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Perhaps they were Italian soccer fans. CBC TV did a very interesting piece on
"the beautiful game" last night. Here is a written synopsis:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/reportsfromabroad/murray/20080107.html

Mo.