Venice Ban Wheelie Suitcases
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To protect from noise pollution.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2842400/Venice-bans-wheelie-suitcases-noise-pollution-canal-bridges.html
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I wonder if fines could happen in the UK for some stuff.
What would you like to ban people for using?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2842400/Venice-bans-wheelie-suitcases-noise-pollution-canal-bridges.html
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I wonder if fines could happen in the UK for some stuff.
What would you like to ban people for using?
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Shit-posting.
That'll be £20 please.
Oh wait...
I imagine a group of wheeled suitcases on a stone bridge, especially if it was cobbled, could cause a hell of a racket.
Time for enterprising locals to turn up with small carts with proper inflated tyres, like baggage trucks at the airport. Whack on several cases and deliver them to their destination.
Good - Venice over the years has become absolute tourist hell .Anything that puts people off can only be a good thing imo .
Guy carrying his suitcase like a pro and the girl dragging hers along, becase its the same size as her.
My view is that if you can't carry it, you have too much stuff.
Erm...No, this is rip off Britain so that'll be £200 PLEASE.
Ease the weight of the heaving masses on top will surely stop it sinking so quick ;-)
Sounds like a good idea and at (presumably high) Venice prices you might expect the hotel to have something like this organised already. So it's probably the cheap crowd at fault with their cheap plastic cases with the cheap plastic wheels... unlike the owners of the expensive plastic cases with the expensive plastic wheels that make just as much noise but they spend loads and are therefore desirable unlike that lot who came in on the coach and who aren't there to buy lots of expensive posh tat*.
* and in case any lawyers from the Venice tourist board are watching, this somewhat standardised description for tourist souvenirs is applied equally to all destinations without prejudice, though may in future be modified subject to recept of properly formatted and pecuniarily-enhanced requests.
It doesn't surprise me though, Venice is stunningly beautiful, but it must be the rip-off capital of Europe. Anything to fleece the tourists.
Not the invention itself which is quite clever and useful; more the lazy idiots who insist on trailing the thing three feet behind them at all times regardless of the surface they are on or the people around them.
The main problem on cobbles that I could see isn't the noise but the constant stopping every five paces and turning around to right an overturned or stuck case, or gumming up the stairs while trying to drag the thing up like bloody Sisyphus rather than just picking it up and carrying it for a bit.
Obviously there are some people that can't carry a heavy case but I like to think that someone would help them in those situations anyway. The fit and well people who do it however are unfortunately blocked by this site's naughty word filter.
And the people who try cutting across a huge throng of people while dragging one behind them should just be shot there and then.
There's the answer.
I guarantee there will be a roaring trade of these type of wheelie suitcases in Venice before long. It's an obvious niche market to be exploited.
As far as I am aware there aren't presently any such cases on the market and there won't be by next May when these new laws are rolled out (pun intended:D). And even if the modern equivalent of Leonardo da Vinci does invent and sell such contraptions, unless sold worldwide, it is hardly going to help your average British, American or Japanese tourist unless they have to buy and decant their luggage at the airport. I somehow don't think the authorities have thought this whole thing out.
The items are small so a van at the exit of the airport would probably do quite well until you made enough money to bribe the security guards to let you park a bit closer.