The flood in Florence and the prisoners

this post was written saturday 4th november, but I have published it only the 6th
Today is the 40th anniversary of the flood in Florence, my city. I was only 4 months at that time, I can’t remember anything, but I have seen a lots of photos and I have listen to a lot of stories.

One of this is about what happened to the prisoners of Le Murate, the male prison in the centre.

One of them died, he was only 25. The others were received as guests by the neighbourhood, in their civil homes. Then they return back to their prison. … they could have escaped , but they haven’t . They returned to detention after had said thank you to their hosts.

12 Responses

  1. were they that guilty that thought they had to be detained? there must be something wrong with their mind
    πŸ™‚

  2. Hello Hellboy,
    actually I don’t understand your comment. Perhaps is my fault, my lack of enough explanation. It was a special situation where criminals acted simply as men, not as they were expected as criminals. Extreme situations make change the usual perspective. Perhaps this can be the wrong in their mind.

  3. criminals are humen, well some of ’em. but logics says other things.
    you gotta escape when you can from asituation you dont like, right?

  4. You know, logics is not the only reason that moves people

  5. soundin like my wife, i play my games with logics & craziness; you can use your own way πŸ˜‰

  6. I guess anything at this point can be justified by logic. When a person, guilty or unguilty, feels compelled to fulfill a civic duty or responsibilty, they are restoring order to society. Thank God some people think about more than covering their own a**!! I agree with Cristina here.

  7. Michelle, you are using some interesting expression , but if you cover it how can I learn? ( is it ass? is it a swear word ? I don’t know how is it acceptable, can you please give me an italian example ? Is it the same degree of “shit”?Thank you ) Is it the same as “avere le spalle coperte ( covering their own shoulders) ” Thank you!

  8. hhhmm you really wanna learn that kinda slang?!
    well guess cant help much cos i dunno the italian, but what’s the italian words for”shit & fuck” im quite interested to use an alternate words so i wouldnt look so impolite πŸ™‚

  9. πŸ˜€ Hellboy, I don’t want be impolite, I want learn the language and that is the language, also swearing! I want to know when some terms are used, when not. When I should be angry to someone and when I should smile.
    I think that doesn’t exist an Italian for “shit&fuck” that is literally “merda e fottere” (sorry), but we don’t use them in this way. We, in my region have very hard swearing. Here swearing is against saints , Christ and God, I ‘m sorry but that’s the true. So you can hearing “merda”, that is shit, from anyone, also ladies and we don’t consider it a very swear word. When need, it can be said. I ‘m thinking about a post on swearing, that could be interesting.

  10. Hi Christine: this conversation is going on an interesting tangent πŸ™‚
    The a** did stand for “ass” as you suspected… I’d say it pretty much corrisponds to “parare culo/sedere” in italian. It is not vulgar, yet not excessively polite! But as I say, when it’s time to use the a-word, it’s time to use the a-word…or the f-word or the s-word! πŸ™‚ πŸ˜€

  11. you say , but actually you do not use them πŸ˜€ You are like me, I can’t write all the swear word I would like in the next post, it’s hard ( even if this is stupid)
    so I can guess the a-word and the f-word… buth what is the s-word?
    ( after the swearing in Italian post, I ‘m going to post a swearing in English by hellboy, and I can add this s-word there…)

  12. And put his cock sex in the army and a hoarse, taking.

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