The men are found sleeping in a restricted area of the Paris monument in the early hours of Monday.
    • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      1 year ago

      yeah, I could totally see myself doing this in my younger years.

      When I was visiting Austin, TX one time, my friend and I were headed back home in the crowds after the bars closed. We saw some dude passed out on the grass, so we woke him up to see if he was okay. Turned out, he was some Irish tourist that got drunk, lost his friends, and didn’t know where he was, so he went to sleep to sober up. We took him with us, got him some Whataburger, then took him home. I still have pictures that we took with him. People get drunk and easily confused in a foreign country. I get that the Eiffel Tower is under high scrutiny because of the bomb scares, but drunk tourist having a blast and then getting lost is normal. It’s not like he assaulted anyone. I don’t see why this has to be “world news”.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Two American tourists in Paris have been found sleeping inside the Eiffel Tower after getting stuck while drunk, according to prosecutors.

    They paid to visit the landmark at around 22:40 (20:40 GMT) on Sunday and hopped security barriers while coming down the stairs, police said.

    The men “appear to have got stuck because of how drunk they were”, Paris prosecutors told the AFP news agency.

    A specialist firefighter unit for rescuing people from heights were sent to recover the men, the agency reported.

    It comes after two bomb scares at the tower on Saturday forced the monument to be evacuated twice in the same day.

    The Eiffel Tower, which was built in the 1880s and stands at 300m (984ft), attracted 5.8 million visitors last year.

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