ignorant, confirmed !

Rome, June 4.
President George W. Bush was in town, and anti-American sentiment was running riotously high. More than 10.000 policemen were on the streets. Security experts had secured manholes, removed trash dumpsters and flushed out sewer systems – the better to safeguard against bombs and snipers.
None of that deterred the 250.000 demonstrators who poured into the streets and squares, upending trash cans and setting up barbed-wire barricades of their own. They burned tires and American flags, threatened patrons at McDonald’s, smashed car windows and threw smoke bombs at police.
Amid the chaos, two blond college-age American girls wearing sneakers and low-rider denim shorts happened upon the Piazza della Republica, the epicenter of it all. After a moment of surprise, enlightment dawned.
“Hey,” one said to the other. “This must be where George Clooney and Brad Pitt are filming!”
(“Innocents Abroad”, Newsweek June 28, 2004)