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Italian town bans Miniskirt.

  • 27-10-2010 11:25pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭


    The Conservative Mayor Luigi Bobbio ,mayor of a southern Italian beach town has ordered police officers to fine women who wear short miniskirts or show too much cleavage, as part of a battle to raise what he describes as the level of public decorum.

    At a council meeting last night, Luigi Bobbio, who was elected on Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party ticket, won a vote to ban clothing considered "very short" from the town of Castellammare di Stabia, south of Naples. Police will get the power to hand out €300 (£265) fines to offenders.

    Explaining what he meant by "very short", Bobbio said officers would target women wearing miniskirts that did not fully cover their underwear. "The display of too much cleavage will also earn a fine," added a spokesman.
    Bobbio said he had faith in officers to make snap decisions. "They won't need to carry out checks up close," he told Corriere del Mezzogiorno. "One glance will be enough to judge.":eek:

    Mayor Luigi Bobbio said that miniskirts and other provocative outfits will still be allowed as long as they are not too revealing.
    "It's a matter of common sense, of common decency," he told The Associated Press.

    The miniskirt ban is one of 41 new decorum measures introduced by Bobbio.
    Among others are:
    Swearing in public,
    kicking footballs in the street,
    lying on benches,
    climbing trees
    and walking a dog with a lead longer than two metres will also be targeted. Bobbio said people would not be allowed to wander off the beach in their swimming costume. "This is not Majorca," he said.:cool:

    Castellammare di Stabia is latest city to make use of the extra powers handed down by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government to mayors, in the effort to fight crime and confront anti social behaviour.

    In other places they have banned sandcastles, kissing in cars, feeding stray cats, wooden clogs and the use of lawn mowers at weekends.


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1323525/Castellammare-di-Stabia-miniskirt-ban-anti-social-behaviour-rules.html#ixzz13bObCBhB

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/25/miniskirts-ban-in-italian-resort


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Sounds like a job for Kevin Bacon.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Oh thank Christ this thread was started, I'd almost forgotten about it since the last one about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    Erinfan wrote: »
    fine women who wear short miniskirts or show too much cleavage,

    Yes, fine women should wear miniskirt........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    The temptation to steal a fantastic joke from the other thread is very high; but I won't.


    This thread's already been done, OP


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭smk89


    That Mayor must be the anti Silvio Berlusconi, if they touch they both just cancel out


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    You should be banned for giving a thumbs up to the topic OP, outrageous you would support such a ban!:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭policarp


    Ah sure why not give the auld miniskirt one more twirl before winter sets in?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭plein de force


    it wouldn't also happen to be that place that banned dying would it?


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