Venice gondola capsizes after tourists refuse to sit down and stop taking selfies
Venice gondola capsizes after tourists refuse to sit down and stop taking selfies
Video of passengers and gondolier ending up in canal water widely shared online
Video of passengers and gondolier ending up in canal water widely shared online
Please don't be American, please don't be American, please don't be American.
Reads article ... "Chinese tour group."
Yes!
I love to hate on Americans (in a friendly way) as much as the next European, however American tourists aren’t that bad. This level of stupid assholery is 99% Chinese tourists, the missing 1% is Russians. No hate for Chinese, Russians, anyone that can behave themselves though- they probably hate their fellow citizens more that anyone of us ever could.
As a whitewater river guide, there are two groups that will never listen to you and make your day hell: Asians and Indians. Every time.
"Don't tell me what to do."
In response to basic safety guidelines.
"Asians and Indians" is like saying "Europeans and the French"
any stories?
Haha ; take that China!
We have a Venetian saying for those situations "(de)scantabaùchi" which is hard to translate even in standard Italian, more or less it means "idiot-awakener"
No one got hurt or died, so imo it's fine to laugh here, and this particular quote was just especially good.
“It’s true that compared with 10 or 15 years ago, tourists weigh a bit more,” Andrea Balbi, the president of Venice’s gondoliers’ association, told the Guardian at the time.
Once everyone was safe and all, I refuse to believe that gondolier didn't have a satisfying moment of thinking "serves you right, assholes!"
Oh thank God! Not Americans! (this time)
I think it's mandatory that every tourist horror story has to include at least one American anecdote.
From the last paragraph ...
In 2022, an American tourist sustained minor injuries after he fell into the crater of Mount Vesuvius as he tried to retrieve his phone, which had slipped out of his hand while taking a selfie.
Imagine you make the guardian because you rolled your canoe over?
How much of a slow day does it need to be for this shit to make "the news"?
You should see beyond what's written: Venice has a big tourists' problem, who are not only increasing in numbers but also disrespectful of the history, the city and the people working and living in it. This story isn't anecdotical, it's emblematic of a widespread issue of touristic consumerism.
It's a shame tourists aren't able to behave appropriately. It would be nice if the city where to fine people for not following basic orders.
Maybe it's just me, but I thought the residents were always disrespectful of the city.
Something like Venice having the filthiest water of any city because the residents just dump their trash into it.
I dunno, I never really understood the reverence for Italian culture 🤷
They always seem to put the shittiest people on top while good people go unnoticed.
Not every article needs to be about the most important thing in the world
I wonder where such self centered tourists are from
- opens article *
Ahh I could have guessed
Forgot the spoiler: Chinese tourists.
And to top it off, Venice' canals are full of raw sewage.