stephanie
02-28-2008, 03:50 AM
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By Sky News SkyNews - Thursday, February 28 02:14 amItaly's Court of Appeal has issued a new hands-off landmark ruling - outlawing men from scratching their crotches in public.
The ruling says that blatant scratching or holding is "an act contrary to decorum and public decency".
Superstitious Italian men often hold or touch their private parts for good luck when they see a hearse or to ward off bad luck - the equivalent of touching wood in Britain.
Italy's Court of Appeal in Rome made the judgement after listening to the appeal of a 42-year-old man from Como who had been fined 200 euros for gross indeceny at a hearing in May last year.
His defence lawyer had argued that his client - a mechanic - had been mereley adjusting himself in his overalls and nothing else.
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080228/twl-italian-ban-on-public-privates-scrat-3fd0ae9.html
By Sky News SkyNews - Thursday, February 28 02:14 amItaly's Court of Appeal has issued a new hands-off landmark ruling - outlawing men from scratching their crotches in public.
The ruling says that blatant scratching or holding is "an act contrary to decorum and public decency".
Superstitious Italian men often hold or touch their private parts for good luck when they see a hearse or to ward off bad luck - the equivalent of touching wood in Britain.
Italy's Court of Appeal in Rome made the judgement after listening to the appeal of a 42-year-old man from Como who had been fined 200 euros for gross indeceny at a hearing in May last year.
His defence lawyer had argued that his client - a mechanic - had been mereley adjusting himself in his overalls and nothing else.
read the rest...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080228/twl-italian-ban-on-public-privates-scrat-3fd0ae9.html