When in Rome... don't touch your junk!

Perry White · Feb 28, 2008

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333595,00.html

Italy'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, or $304, for gross indeceny at a hearing in May last year.

His defense lawyer had argued that his client — a mechanic — had been adjusting himself in his overalls and nothing else.

The appeal, however, was overturned by the judges who said in their ruling that: "The touching of genitalia in public is a sign of ill manners and must be considered against public decency.

"The rules of social etiquette require all of us to abstain from what might be considered offensive to public decorum."
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Making social etiquette part of the law seems a bit much, though I'm loathe to defend what the mechanic did either

mike311gd · Feb 28, 2008

I love the Italians, but I'm going to touch myself wherever I please and whenever I please. There's not a government in the world that can stop me.

forever_town · Feb 28, 2008

And here my self-censor stopped me from posting, "Here's hoping Mikey never goes to Italy." ...

dooley_womack1 · Feb 28, 2008

But the id always finds a way to get the line out, anyway.

mike311gd · Feb 28, 2008

Seriously, though, providing things fall into place, I'd like to spend my honeymoon in Italy. I'll test my theory then and report back to you guys. Or you'll read about it.

dooley_womack1 · Feb 28, 2008

Moddy has no idea why he just kicked his dog

novelist_wannabe · Feb 28, 2008

They touch wood in Britain? Hmmm

Oz · Feb 28, 2008

So rappers better beware, or they will get arrested when in Rome ...

Football_Bat · Feb 28, 2008

Talk about nipping a nascent Baseball Italia program in the bud.

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