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“Oh, boy, mama and papa both had hurting hearts last night when they saw the devastation that the Feyenoord ultra fans had wreaked upon their beloved Roma. The piazza di Spagna was trashed, bottled thrown everywhere including into the 400-year-old Barcaccia fountain. The following is a quote from the link you see below:
Dutch media reports said fans threw beer bottles and fireworks and urinated in the square, damaging the 400-year-old Barcaccia fountain, reopened in September after 10 months of restoration at a cost of more than 200,000 euros.
Rob Smit, chairman of the Feyenoord supporters club reacted angrily to the accusations, Dutch tabloid De Telegraaf reported.
“I can understand the Italians must be miffed when Feyenoord fans urinate against their monuments.”
“But then, Rome is one big monument,” he told the paper.
Have you ever heard of such idiocy? Such rudeness? Clearly Robby was raised in a barn and has no couth himself, therefore no possible resources nor education to draw upon in order to be a conscientious role model for his club’s members. Where is the soccer world headed if fans can go into any city they please and defame anything they wish? What if there had been young children in piazza di Spagna? Families? Elderly people? The piazza di Spagna is home to so many and always full of tourists and locals because of its beauty and accessibility.
The Dutch government has vowed to “punish these vandals”. In what way, I ask you? How do they find the cretins who perpetrated these crimes? Perhaps someone will snitch, as always. Or someone will boast of his “macho” activities, as always. But perhaps even punishment will never be enough of a deterrent to cruel, angry, disturbed young men who find their only outlets for rage in the destruction of others’ property and lives.
Mama’s first reaction to the heinous crimes she saw last night on the news was to hope that all the tulips in Holland rot! Then she said, “Loulou, I’ll never eat Dutch chocolate again!” She stopped at hoping the dikes spring leaks, because a few ruffians are not the country as a whole, but they are the representatives of their county and last night, they gave Holland a very bad name.
If I find any one of those guys, he had better have ALOT of peroxide for his wounds. I love Rome, and a kitty enraged is not a kitty with which one should engage!
Do you idiots see these fangs? Well, think twice the next time you destroy others’ lives with your inane actions!
I really can’t comprehend why some people think it is okay to trash other people’s HOMES. It is not their right, it is the local people’s right to have their rights and expectation of reasonable cleanliness respected. When people come and help clean up after themselves when they “have” to leave a mess, THAT should be the news if they have to leave a mess at all!
That is a very good idea but the head honcho in Holland has refused to pay for the Barcaccia’s repair–400-year-old fountain, can you imagine? And yes, incomprehensible.
That is so sad 🙁
Yes, sad and sadder…they continued attacking buses and such for two days more…
Sometimes humans are jerks! What a mess!
Imagine that happening in your city? &^$#*%&@!!