Close Neighbors

Filed under:Italian culture, living in Italy — posted by webmaster on January 15, 2007 @ 8:54 pm

Murder and mayhem in a small Italian town.

6 comments

  1. Nothing like, to be sure.
    What amused me, if that’s the word for anything in this terrible affair, is that people were quietly disturbed and mournful I thought, until it came out that the murderers went to get a pizza so they would have a receipt showing they were not at home that evening. And they ate it. Then there seemed to be some really heartfelt disgust, “Who could do that and go eat a pizza!”
    Today, as you know, it was revealed that they had planned this for some time. Nobody snapped. They were just evil people.

    Comment by Judith in Umbria — January 15, 2007 @ 9:42 pm

  2. Strangely, Dierdre, if I open comments in an IE tab I can comment.
    Judith

    Comment by Judith in Umbria — January 15, 2007 @ 9:44 pm

  3. Worse than pizza - they went to McDonald’s!

    Comment by webmaster — January 15, 2007 @ 11:28 pm

  4. And ate a pizza there, according to TG1. That’s just wrong. Headline: “Murderers Found to Eat Pizza at MacDonald’s”

    Comment by Judith in Umbria — January 16, 2007 @ 10:28 am

  5. They went to MacDoo showing they are stupid, beside evil. FI they went to a pizzeria, ate a fast as possible, got a receipt they could have claimed they arrived early and ate leisurely. But at fast food places you pay first, ate later. Thus the scontrino showed the hour they arrived, not when the left. In any case, they had the cell phones on and connected to the apartment’s cell while committing the murder.

    Comment by Alice Twain — January 16, 2007 @ 11:58 am

  6. You said:

    In many parts of the US, being murdered by one’s neighbors would be no particular surprise.

    I am pretty sure that being murdered by anyone in any country would be a surprise. I think that the reputation of the US is a manifestation of many of the things that we think are wrong with our culture: It is glib, lacking in substance or detail, one dimensional or artificial. The simple point, and I think your discussion proves it, is that atrocities happen everywhere. The US has it’s share of violence. Then again, right around the corner from Italy was a state that was involved in “ethnic cleansing” (murder by neighbors). All countries and nationalities suffer from human failings.

    Thought provoking as always.

    Comment by Dan Maslowski — January 27, 2007 @ 3:23 pm

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