Tourists who chuck their soda cans, waggle toes in the City’s canals and abandon t-shirts for the bare-chested look (we’re talking men here) may be intercepted and fined by Venice’s newly created Office of Decorum. But perhaps just as humorous is the way the government’s Decorum office has decided to go about breaking the bad news. Instead of tasking regular police with the job, the City has hired legions of multi-lingual female “hostesses” to patrol St. Mark’s Square and dole out penalties ranging from 50 to 500 euro. I guess it’s just easier to take a reprimand from a pretty young woman, and the government knows it. Interestingly, slovenly Americans are not the chief targets, but rather European day-tripper tourists who often bring their own food and picnic outside.

Venice Slaps Fines on Sloppy, Shirtless Tourists