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Enjoying your European vacation? Tourists visiting Lake Como are forced to step over migrants at the train station rather than mingle with the Clooneys as up to 500 are sent back to Italy from Switzerland

They came for an idyllic getaway in Italy's picturesque Lake Como where A-list stars such as George Clooney own property.
But tourists may have been shocked to find that the northern Italian town was not just busy with sun seekers this August - it's also become a temporary home for up to 500 migrants who've been turned away from Switzerland.
Covering the path outside Lake Como's train station are sleeping bags and the few possessions belonging to the refugees.
Tourists are pictured sitting alongside the migrants' makeshift beds with their luggage as they wait for trains.

Tourists forced to step over migrants at picturesque Lake Como's train station | Daily Mail Online


Well, that's too bad. I saw none of that the last time I visited. Sort of reminds me of the bums all over the streets in DC.
 
What happened to your previous claim of Clooney having sold up because of this?
 
It's the Daily mail FFS! They'll be on about the Como housing market bargains to be had next week.
 
Chagos said:
What happened to your previous claim of Clooney having sold up because of this?
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That has nothing to do with the migrant problem. Does it? No subject that is not worth avoiding, huh?
 
Manc Skipper said:
It's the Daily mail FFS! They'll be on about the Como housing market bargains to be had next week.
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This one here will possibly go as downhill as the other one. Trouble with The Fail is that they don't have sufficiently competent staff (unlike here) to close this crap down right from the beginning.

Slow day in the Fail's editors' room no doubt, leading to worrying attacks of necrophilia.
 
Chagos said:
This one here will possibly go as downhill as the other one. Trouble with The Fail is that they don't have sufficiently competent staff (unlike here) to close this crap down right from the beginning.

Slow day in the Fail's editors' room no doubt, leading to worrying attacks of necrophilia.
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There's a definite air of deja moo about it.
 
Thread sucessfully derailed.
 
MickeyW said:
Enjoying your European vacation? Tourists visiting Lake Como are forced to step over migrants at the train station rather than mingle with the Clooneys as up to 500 are sent back to Italy from Switzerland

They came for an idyllic getaway in Italy's picturesque Lake Como where A-list stars such as George Clooney own property.
But tourists may have been shocked to find that the northern Italian town was not just busy with sun seekers this August - it's also become a temporary home for up to 500 migrants who've been turned away from Switzerland.
Covering the path outside Lake Como's train station are sleeping bags and the few possessions belonging to the refugees.
Tourists are pictured sitting alongside the migrants' makeshift beds with their luggage as they wait for trains.

Tourists forced to step over migrants at picturesque Lake Como's train station | Daily Mail Online


Well, that's too bad. I saw none of that the last time I visited. Sort of reminds me of the bums all over the streets in DC.
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No problem. I have always liked Laussane and Lugano better.
 
Chagos said:
........not to mention the stench of a re-opened grave. :mrgreen:
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Sorry, migrants are a festering open sore and far from dead. Even if they use your showers.
 
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The thing with this one, months ago as much as now, is the attempt to create the impression that there's a jungle at Como that resembles the one at Calais. The latter at last count harboring some 7,300 compared to the overall Calais population of around 74,000.

Now the "hundreds" of refugees currently in Como are in relation to an overall population much higher than that of Calais and, conveniently, keep near the Stazione di San Giovanni for now. With a housing centre in the making in nearby Mendrisio.

One would also assume that the over 200,000 tourists descending on the town each year have something of a bigger impact on the locals, even if that can be deemed to be more favorable.

Now if that reminds Mickey of the bums all over D.C., either that city's "housed" population has shrunk considerably or the number of bums has exploded. Unless, of course, one wants to make the argument that everybody living in DC is a bum anyway. :mrgreen:

Clooney BTW (to return to the thread corpse that's being warmed up here again) never sold. For one thing he doesn't tend to arrive in the area by train, for another his villa is not in Como town anyway, it's in Laglio which is about 12 km distant.

Branson incidentally never sold his on account of never having owned one there:lol:, but Donatella (Versace) still has a place.

Probably none of these "illustrious" (including their equally illustrious visitors) would recognize Como main station if it fell down all over them, let alone what to do with it, should they ever stray there.

So, in short summary, what a load of bumpf.:roll:
 
MickeyW said:
Well, that's too bad. I saw none of that the last time I visited. Sort of reminds me of the bums all over the streets in DC.
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~...................... rather than mingle with the Clooneys..............~
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I got news for ya, buddy. Clooney wouldn't mingle with the likes of you anyway. :2razz:
 
Chagos said:
I got news for ya, buddy. Clooney wouldn't mingle with the likes of you anyway. :2razz:
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Oh yes he would. He's a pretty friendly guy, just a gun hating liberal. So I just wouldn't bring that up in conversation if I saw him on the road or in Como.
His place is beautiful and I would just go over to him if I ran into him and say "Hey George, how are you doing this fine day?"

Just like I have done with many other celebs in the past. Really throws them for a loop when you address them like you know them well...... and they can't remember who you are! :lamo
 
MickeyW said:
Oh yes he would. He's a pretty friendly guy, just a gun hating liberal. So I just wouldn't bring that up in conversation if I saw him on the road or in Como.
His place is beautiful and I would just go over to him if I ran into him and say "Hey George, how are you doing this fine day?"

Just like I have done with many other celebs in the past. Really throws them for a loop when you address them like you know them well...... and they can't remember who you are! :lamo
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Then how come that he, last time I ran into him, warned me of you not being representative of Americans?

He remembered you all right. The guy that walks up to people uninvitedly and gets on their nerves with strange chatter.

Said it reminded him of DC. :lamo:lamo

;)
 
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Okay playmates. On review this thread has been adjudged to be a necro of a previously closed thread. Making a new thread on exactly the same subject, in exactly the same sub-forum is an attempt to circumvent the previous moderator action. Thread closed.
 
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