A Sicilian man showed up at a police station on New Year’s eve, asking to be arrested so he could spend the night in prison, but police officers told the man that they could not arrest him because he had committed no crime.
But the 35-year-old man, determined to avoid spending the night with his family at all costs, headed next door, stole a packet of chewing gum from a tobacco store, and waited for the police to arrest him for robbery.
Silvio Berlusconi said that he would like to strangle people who make films or write books about the mafia.
“If I find out who is the maker of the nine seasons of ‘The Octopus’ and who has written books on the mafia, which give such a bad image to Italy across the world, I swear that I will strangle them,” Berlusconi told supporters of his Forza Italia party on Saturday.
La Piovra (The Octopus) was a television series about the mafia that aired on public Italian television between 1984 and 2001.
It’s a good thing Francis Ford Coppola doesn’t live in Italy.
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Sylvio Berlusconi
“I am the person who is the most harassed by judges in worldwide human history.”
Silvio Berlusconi commenting the withdraw of his immunity by the Italian Supreme Court.
“I had to suffer more than 2.500 hearings. I worked hard and I saved enough money to spend more than 200 millions euros for legal consultants and judges.”
Let’s just hope he wanted to say lawyers instead of judges.
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Sylvio Berlusconi
Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi paid a bizarre tribute to US President Barack Obama, describing him as “young, handsome and even suntanned”.
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“I am accused of having said that the [Chinese] Communists used to eat children,” said Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
“But read The Black Book of Communism and you will discover that in the China of Mao, they did not eat children, but had them boiled to fertilise the fields.”
He later tried to calm things down by saying: “It was questionable irony, I admit it, because this joke is questionable. But I did not know how to restrain myself.”
“The damage caused to Italy by an insult to 1.3 billion people is by all means a considerable one,” he admitted on radio.
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