While most Italians were staying indoors to avoid catching the novel coronavirus this week, one man was outside trying to catch some waves at the beach.
Then the police caught him. Bodycam footage released by Italian police on Wednesday shows two officers on horseback waiting patiently onshore for the surfer on a beach near Rome.
The masked officers blow a whistle and flag the surfer down, then wait for him to trudge ashore. “Didn’t we tell you, ‘Stay at home’?” a police spokesperson wrote in a Twitter post with the video.
It’s unclear if the man faced any charges, but police used the video as a tool to encourage people to stay indoors and practise social distancing.