Life Is Just So Unfair
Bad news for Italy; former Italian president Silvio Berlusconi is bored with his millions and his minions and his playmates. He desperately misses the highlights of moving in international circles as the senior political representative of his country. And, likely, of tweaking and twinkling the sensibilities of the Italian electorate, half of them outraged the other have supportive of his egotistical machismo.But there it is, he has a new political party and he plans to contest the leadership of the country once again. That tiger hasn't changed his stripes, despite which he has enjoyed numerous political lives. So what's another one? And isn't it interesting that his party seems to attract quite unusual characters, people who behave rather badly and who cannot see their behaviour in a negative light of criticism at all.
Like, for example, Antonio Piazza, accustomed to parking his Jaguar outside his office. Accustomed to parking it in a space set specifically aside for disabled drivers in Lecco, on the shores of Lake Como, northern Italy. Evidently in the many years Mr. Piazza had accustomed himself to taking a parking spot reserved for the disabled no one had challenged him.
And then along came Giuseppe Scuderi, a local man whose disabilities were such that he was obviously entitled to special treatment. And Mr. Piazza was quite prepared to offer special treatment to Mr. Scuderi. Just not the coveted parking spot. So that when Mr. Scuderi politely asked Mr. Piazza to move his vehicle, Mr. Scuderi responded scurrilously.
Causing Mr. Scuderi to go in search of a police officer to amend what he described as "a question of civility". The upshot of which Mr. Piazza was ordered to vacate the contested parking spot so Mr. Scuderi could pull in and park his little Renault. Oh, and Mr. Piazza was handed a $102 fine. And all was settled.
But perhaps not quite, for within an hour Mr. Piazza returned to the parking spot and began to slash the Renault's tires. Not a brilliant move; one that was more than adequately recorded on closed-circuit television cameras. Oh, and witnessed as well by certainly bemused if not outraged office workers.
The upshot of the unfortunate lapse in judgement was that Mr. Piazza was forced to resign as head of Aler, an agency managing public housing in the town, and as a senior member of the regional branch of the People of Freedom party, Mr. Berlusconi's own, very personal political conveyance back to political power.
"There are people who do much worse things", pouted Mr. Piazza. He should not have been forced to resign; his personal peccadilloes had nothing to do, he insisted, with his public performance, his job, his political career.
After all, he must have taken inspiration from his party leader.
Labels: Celebrity, Corruption, Entertainment, Human Relations, Italy
posted by Pieface @ Friday, October 05, 2012
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