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Italian waterfight
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Comment by Alain Brauckmann on December 15, 2009 at 3:32am -
Nothing annormal for italians with boats. They love to anchor like this and having a party on the water.
Cool, unless you are looking for some quite moments in the bay .... but they normally disappear about 4 or 5 o clock in the afternoon
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Comment by Suky Cannon on August 22, 2009 at 4:06pm -
guess you're not having much fun, eh ?
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Comment by CAN DRAC on August 22, 2009 at 12:39pm -
No, we were just witnesses. But had the fight gone international we would have definitely needed water guns! :-)
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Comment by LOLA on August 22, 2009 at 11:36am -
Were you guys in on this? Pays to carry one of those water guns
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