Bizarre craze

Over in Rome many young night owls have forsaken their mobile phones for miniature megaphones, is this part of some neo-luddite movement looking to abandon or protest against the cold modern technological world we live in? The short answer to that is no. These Roman revellers have merely taken to using small battery powered megaphones to annoy the residents of Rome's Piazza Campo di Fiori who had become so fed up with the noise created at night that they managed to get banned the serving of alcoholic drinks in glasses or bottles after 10pm.

The drinkers got a bit upset and first escalated the feud by organising late night games of football as first light came up for the new day. Not suprisingly this somewhat tiring method was ditched when someone hit upon the idea of these little megaphones. These have now apparantly become the summers must have item.

I read about this in the independent on monday but this is only link i can find just now for the story, a small reference near the bottom talking about an increase in yobbishness in Italian youth culture.