American tourist impales himself on spike at Colosseum in Rome - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-05-05/american-tourist-impales-himself-on-spike-at-colosseum-left-dangling-in-excruciating-painOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
TLDR;
He lived, received 80 stitches and was also a resident of Taiwan
Almost had a Darwin Award candidate
Hopefully no one starts a religion over this...
Oh look, an American who doesn't respect a wall.
I’m sure there were rules saying not to do whatever he did, which is why he did it
Colosseum demands blood.
FCK americans
Edit: as German i say fck German Tourist too... oh and fck british Tourist too... Should be the 3 worst sorts of Tourist in the west.
The American in question:
Ouch! I'm guessing something like those? https://earth.google.com/web/search/Colosseum,+Piazza+del+Colosseo,+Rome,+Metropolitan+City+of+Rome+Capital,+Italy/@41.88982527,12.49215183,24.24652049a,0d,32.21956336y,199.20501311h,92.10494739t,0r/data=CiwiJgokCfyNfWxFlTRAEfmNfWxFlTTAGSflKNVKVEJAIe7Wz0l1Z1DAQgIIASIaChZDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSURodS1uTVhBEAVCAggASg0I____________ARAA
Do you have a maps link?
Ouch, anyway.