Posted on 07/17/2019 8:39:40 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Seven centuries after the Venetian explorer Marco Polo set out on the Silk Route for Cathay, Venice has for the first time invited Chinese police officers to patrol its canal banks and winding alleyways. Two Chinese police officers – one from near Shanghai, the other from the region around Beijing – will spend the next three weeks conducting joint patrols in the lagoon city with their Italian counterparts.
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They’re gonna start beating the @#$# out of people and the native police are gonna be like WTF?!?!?!
:)
no they won’t, they’ll sneak off and steal state secrets.
Or get in knock down, drag out fights over who invented pasta noodles.
I was followed around the Hong Kong airport with a team of four guys with MP5s. I had on bluejeans a white shirt and an OD green military-looking cap.
Good luck Italy
ROFL!!
Going to suck to be a Uighur in Venice.
I had to look it up.
Sad story.
FUNNY comment! :)
I don’t know if they’re still at it, but back in 2014 Chinese police were patrolling Paris. It was done to make Chinese tourists feel safer.
Chinese tourists in Venice and Vatican City are the worst behaved people I have ever seen.
Hawking big loogies onto the floors in museums.
Cutting lines where you have already been waiting half an hour.
Disrespectful behavior in religious shrines.
Absolutely the rudest, most obnoxious people I’ve ever seen.
He explored Venus? Who knew? I liked Magellan, myself, although DeSoto was pretty impressive, bumping into the Mississippi and all.
Marco Polo, a Venetian, hailed from Venice. Had he come from Venus, he would have been a Venerian.
The Mississippi.
Like they wouldn’t have found that anyways!
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