A youth who dived into Rome's famous Trevi fountain as delighted tourists cheered him on Tuesday was finally netted by municipal guards.
The youth stripped off his shirt before climbing to the highest part of the Baroque monument for his head-long dive into the shallow fountain.
He managed another dive before the guards ordered him to come out.
The unidentified youth kept the crowd entertained because he slipped and fell headlong into the water again as he tried to wade out of the fountain.
The Trevi fountain is a popular venue for tourist shenanigans in Rome.
A female office worker stunned tourists in March by swimming naked in the fountain.
Roberta, 40, who said she took the plunge because it was so hot, instantly became a national news item thanks to the photos taken of her by onlookers with mobile phones.
"It was stupid and I'm sorry. Now I just wish people would forget about me," the Milanese woman later told Italian dailies, declining to give her surname.
Swedish screen diva Anita Ekberg started the fashion for frolicking in the Renaissance fountain by doing so in the most famous scene of Federico Fellini's 1960 cinema classic La Dolce Vita. Supermodel Claudia Schiffer did it in 1995 in an advert for Valentino.
Keen to have her friends film her in the same glamorous act, a buxom young British woman did it early one summer morning last year and was severely scolded by a policeman.
Roberta, who was on holiday in Rome with friends on Sunday, swam about in the water and lazed on the sun-drenched white marble for about 15 minutes before police ordered her to dress and then led her away.
The crowds of tourists visiting the elaborate fountain applauded, cheered and immortalised the scene with their mobile phone cameras.
The pictures were soon flying around the Internet and video footage was shown in national TV news.
