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Rachel Hagan

'Cretin' tourist dives 30ft into Venice canal wearing only underpants as mayor rages

A tourist who dived 30 feet from the roof of a palazzo in Venice has enraged the mayor of the World Heritage city.

The young man, clad solely in his underpants, was filmed leaping from the top of the building and performing what looked like a belly flop into the canal below.

“We should give a certificate of stupidity and a good number of kicks up the backside to this individual,” Luigi Brugnaro wrote on Twitter, along with a video of the stunt.

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