[KarlMalone]

Tourist thrown out of Venice for sunbathing topless on war memorial

A female tourist was thrown out of Venice after she was caught posing for photos topless on a war memorial.
The 30-year-old from the Czech Republic stripped off last Friday afternoon, dumping her belongings on the monument -- which pays homage to Italy's war heroes -- as she went for a swim in the freezing lagoon, and then lay beside the statue of a murdered female partisan to pose for photos....

"It was a beautiful day and we saw two people taking photos. I saw a strange movement and then I saw this woman swimming without a care in the world," Nason told CNN.
"I thought she must be crazy, thinking she could swim on a freezing day.
"But then I saw she was trying to get out of the water by climbing onto the statue, wearing just her bikini bottoms.
"She got up on it, then she got back into the water, totally relaxed.
"Her boyfriend and another woman had jumped over the barrier and were on the monument, to take better photos of her. They were stood there beside her clothes that she'd left [on the monument], just as you do on the beach."