15 November 2012
No witnesses doesn't mean no crime
That's right, just because you thought nobody would see you doing the deed in public doesn't mean that they can't put you away for indecency. A couple from Italy found that out the hard way today. Italy's highest court has rejected their appeal, in which they said they should not have been convicted of obscene acts in public because they had sex outside while the rest of their town was inside watching a football match. The couple, then a 60-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman, were caught having sex outside in southern Italy in 2006 while the national football team was playing against Ukraine in the World Cup quarterfinals in Germany. Their defence at a previous trial was that they had timed their tryst under the stars so they would not offend anyone, because everyone else would be watching the game on television. But just for the record, not everyone is into soccer. Even though every other sport is relegated to the background during the World Cup, not everybody in town would be at home watching soccer. There is a chance that somebody could be in the area watching the spectacle. And speaking of glasses, downtown roads around a luxury hotel in Toronto remained closed for hours after a panel of glass fell from an upper floor of the building yesterday afternoon (Eastern Standard Time). A panel of glass fell from the 34th floor of the Trump International Hotel & Tower around 4:10 p.m. EST, striking several vehicles below near the intersection of Bay and Adelaide streets, police said. As a result, several roads around the building were closed off during the busy rush hour, including the eastbound lanes of Adelaide Street at Bay. The roads finally reopened after seven hours.
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