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VENICE, Italy, July 28 (UPI) -- The mayor of Venice, Italy, says he lectured and called the police on a man he caught urinating into a canal.
Mayor Massimo Cacciari said he came upon a Portuguese tourist urinating into the canal Monday night, ANSA reported Tuesday.
"I saw a gentleman peeing in a canal and took the liberty of telling him that he probably wouldn't do so in his living room," Cacciari said. "I then called the city police to clear things up."
Police fined the man $70.
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