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plus: more on the people's princess ONE CRACKED FACT | [View in Browser]( [logo]( [Remembering The Tourists Arrested For Grabbing Diana Memorial Teddy Bears]( By: [RM Avatar] [Ryan Menezes]( • February 16 , 2022 [02162022](www.cracked.com/article_32631_remembering-the-tourists-arrested-for-grabbing-diana-memorial-bears.html?newsletter-cat=history?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=16022022) Between The Crown and Kristen Stewart's performance in Spencer, a lot's reminding us of Princess Diana's death 25 years ago. The world reacted to that tragedy in a way they'll likely never will to a celebrity death again. In England, the public went slightly mad. In front of various London palaces, people laid down flowers and teddy bears. That's fine—that's not the crazy part. Then on September 10, an Italian tourist picked up one of the teddy bears outside St. James, planning to give it to his girlfriend. England sentenced him to a week in prison. The crime was equivalent to grave robbing, said people. And it sort of was: It was equivalent to taking flowers from a cemetery. But it sounds like people called it as bad as digging up a grave and pulling fillings out of the corpse's mouth, which it was not. One furious Diana mourner named Gerard Moorhouse punched the Italian in the face as he left a courthouse, saying, "My Diana! She was the queen of everybody’s hearts." Two women in their fifties visiting from Slovakia kicked it up a notch. They took eleven teddy bears and some flowers from outside Westminster Abbey. The courts sentenced the pair to four weeks in prison. The Slovakian embassy issued a statement, not in their citizens' defense but to affirm their solidarity with England. "We believe the verdict of the court and the sentence that ensued from it were entirely commensurate with the nature of this most deplorable crime," they said. In the end, the sentences were reduced to fines, £100 for the Italian guy and £200 for each of the Slovakian women. In Slovakia, claimed the women, it's traditional for some people to leave gifts at a memorial and other people to collect them and keep them. Otherwise, a memorial just grows uncontrollably, the rain ruins everything, and someone eventually has to sweep it all into the trash. For more Diana stories, check out: - [Freddie Mercury Took Princess Diana To A Gay Bar After Dressing Her In Drag]( - [6 Eerily Specific World Events Predicted by Comics]( - [Channel 4 Broadcasts Princess Diana's Last Moments]( Also, Check This Out! Like stand up comedy? We've teamed up with the legendary Stand Up! Records to give three lucky winners each a bundle of stand up specials on vinyl. [Learn more and enter here](! Top image: [Maxwell Hamilton](, [John Mathew Smith]( [Daily Digest]( [12 Informative Pictures for Interested Parties]( [By Eli Yudin / February 16th, 2022]( [Honoring Marvel And DC's Greatest Artist - George Pérez]( [By Jon Hogan / February 16th, 2022]( [What Netflix's 'BioShock' Movie Can Learn From The Canceled One]( [By JM McNab / February 15th, 2022]( [Shady Crypto Bozos Battle 'Magic: The Gathering's Owners]( [By Tiago Svn / February 15th, 2022]( ['Amen Break:' The Immortal Drum Beat Sampled By Everyone From N.W.A. To The Power Puff Girls]( [By Lily Landau / February 15th, 2022]( [READ MORE]( [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [flipboard]( [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2021 Cracked is published by Literally media Ltd. [Unsubscribe](