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ROME, April 13 (UPI) -- Two men who tried to scoop up coins thrown by tourists into Rome's Trevi Fountain have been charged under a law that bans bathing in public fountains.
Legend has it -- Hollywood legend, anyway -- that those who throw coins into the fountain will return to Rome. The coin throwing is technically illegal but generally ignored by police.
When officers spotted two fully clothed men with metal detectors wading in the fountain they intervened, the Italian news agency Ansa reported. One man managed to break free, but only after falling into the fountain again, and was then nabbed in an alleyway.
One man, with a history of petty theft, had only 33 coins, but the other had picked up more than 200, both Euro and foreign coins.
The Trevi, built in the 17th century, is the largest of Rome's many Baroque fountains. Tourists throw several thousand dollars in loose change into the fountain every day.
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