Some tourists are idiots

DrWatson · 2025-05-24T17:50:32-04:00

Europe - Some tourists are idiots (Quote) (13 replies).

. Belgium’s picturesque city of Bruges has issued a request that tourists stop stealing cobblestones from its UNESCO-recognized medieval streets.

Local politician Franky Demon says an estimated 50 to 70 cobblestones disappear per month — even more during peak season — and it costs 200 euros (about $225) per square meter to replace them and fix the damage.

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4meAndyou · F

There are some people, like my own grandmother, (who stole petrified wood from the protected petrified forest), who believe that if it's not nailed down, it's a souvenir.

In fact, that is exactly WHY Plymouth Rock went from enormous in size, to quite small. They had to move it from the beach where it was being constantly chipped at to the front of the town hall, and it broke in half while moving it.

Then the tourists went at it like mad in front of the town hall, chipping away bits of it, and they decide to move it AGAIN to a protected enclosure down on the beach where no one could reach it.

And of course, it broke in half AGAIN while they were trying to move it.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@4meAndyou

Broke in half TWICE?

City hall must have hired contractors who were big political donors... 🙄

4meAndyou · F

@Thinkerbell Obviously!! They were using home made winches and wagons with horses...probably not quite as scientific about it as we would be today!

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@4meAndyou

Seems to me they could have done a better job gluing it back together... 😂

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@Thinkerbell

In Plymouth, there ONCE was a rock,
That broke, when 'twas moved up the block.
Though they glued it together,
The job altogether
Was naught but the clumsiest schlock.

4meAndyou · F

@Thinkerbell Quite true! 🤣🤣🤣 Obviously, that's NOT its good side! 🤣🤣🤣