Note to self: the Spanish Steps is not a street

It’s not even the first time.
https://www.ilmessaggero.it/video/cronaca/roma_auto_scalinata_trinita_monti-4161530.html

And that time it was a 27 year old who had a spritz too many.

Stupid is as stupid does.

lol. In 2023, we got stuck for 10 or 15 minutes in our taxi arriving in Seville because a truck drove down one of those narrow streets and got stuck. He couldn’t move either way and of course no one else could either. (We were far enough back in the line of stuck traffic that we were able to back up and take a one way street the wrong way to get around - an interesting beginning to our trip!)

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we got lots of "stupids" everywhere. another photo-op mishap at verona museum with the tourists running away. hope they get caught.
one more oops moment, 30 year old tourist from boston wants a better view and photo of the kilauea volcano erupting last week on the big island. crawls under "do not enter or pass" gate in the dark, slips down sheer cliff's edge 30 feet having a tree break his fall!!!! then to have air helicopter rescue propel to save him in dangerous conditions. he admits he did wrong not paying attention to hazards with an "all about me attitude" OMG what's next
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OMG what's next

GOK (God only knows). As the comic Ron White said "You can't fix stupid...stupid is forever".

The mother of the idiots is always pregnant.
(old Italian proverb)

LOL, Roberto. Gotta love the Italians.
New article with pictures:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/travel/man-drives-spanish-steps-scli-intl

Heck of a "wrong turn".

got stuck. He couldn’t move either way and of course no one else could either

There are people who actually have fun experiencing things like that :-)

A friend of mine was friends with a Munich taxi driver whose dream was to drive across Rome in his caravan. The more traffic, the better. But before they even arrived in Rome, the taxi driver and his caravan got stuck in an underpass and the only one who really enjoyed it was the taxi driver. My friend, who was also traveling along with his caravan, said it was so embarrassing.

So, with the help of many people, who first honked their horns like crazy and then helped, they were able to free the stuck caravan from the underpass. The desired journey through Rome's crazy traffic could continue.......

That was many years ago, but my friend still talks about how much he sweated blood and tears driving his caravan through rush hour in Rome. However, they obviously didn't drive down the Spanish Steps :-)

Read it might of been due to GPS. We’ve ended up on some very bad routes due to GPS, like in the middle of a field on a dirt road or being told to turn left on a crazy intersection in Palermo.

But even if GPS directed him to the top of the steps, what possessed him to try and drive DOWN the thing?

Movies possessed him to drive down the steps. They also like to run cars through farmers markets.

I think we would notice steps and stop but I can remember several times we were directed by GPS or even earlier, but simple map directions, to drive down streets that I could not imagine were mean for driving. One was in Semur en Auxois in France and yes it was a street and took us to our rental over a thousand year old bridge -- but I was dubious and screaming inside the whole way. Another time, it was in Aix and looked like a pedestrian path but it was the directions to our hotel and yes -- there was the hotel. Of course no one else could move until we had unloaded the luggage in this narrow narrow pathway.

But the Spanish steps? Sheesh.