A prankster dropped thousands of colored plastic balls down the Spanish Steps in Rome last week.
Graziano Cecchini said he had dropped more than 500,000 balls down the Spanish Steps because he is unhappy with Italy's current social and political problems.
Cecchini said that the prank was art to show the problem "we have in Italy - the lies that they tell us."
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Bemused passers-by, including many tourists, watched as city street-sweepers tried to collect the balls bouncing down the Steps. The Steps lead to the Piazza di Spagna or Spain Square.
"At last some color!" one local Roman watching the scene on a gray winter's day said. Several tourists kept some of the balls for themselves, maybe as an unusual souvenir from the Italian capital.
"A harmless cultural jest," is how Rome's culture superintendent, Silvio Di Francia described Cecchini's action.
But not everyone was amused. Police might charge Cecchini and two helpers with "disrupting public service ." (DPA)
上週,一名惡作劇的人從羅馬的西班牙台階傾倒了無數顆彩色塑膠小球。
葛濟安諾.薩奇尼說,因為不滿義大利當前諸多社會和政治問題,才會從西班牙台階上倒下超過五十萬顆球。
薩奇尼說這次惡搞是一種藝術,目的在凸顯「義大利面臨的問題─政客對人民撒謊」。
許多路過民眾和遊客看到此景都呆住了,他們看著羅馬市清潔人員努力撿起在台階彈跳的彩球;西班牙台階向上走會通往「the Piazza di Spagna(西班牙廣場)」。
「終於有些色彩了!」羅馬當地一位民眾看著這幕景象對比當天陰晦的天色。好幾名遊客撿拾彩球,或許是想作為義大利首都之行的獨特紀念品。
「一個無傷大雅的文化玩笑」,羅馬市文化局長希維爾.迪.法蘭西亞這麼形容薩奇尼這次的行為。
但並非人人都覺得這次惡搞很有趣;警方可能會依「妨礙社會秩序」罪名法辦薩奇尼和他的兩位幫手。(德通社/翻譯:袁星塵)
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