>A photograph of police arresting a drunken man outside a Swansea takeaway on “Black Eye Friday” has gone viral, with some comparing it to “a boozy Renaissance painting” and others seeing the influence of French Romanticism.
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>One admirer of the shot, by Dimitris Legakis, thought it merited a spot alongside the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo: “Wind Street. Swansea. Put it in the Louvre.”
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>The picture was taken at about 12.30am on the last Friday before Christmas, an evening so notorious for alcohol-fuelled carousing that it has come to be known on our drink-soaked island as Mad Friday or Black Eye Friday.
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>It shows three police officers in hi-vis jackets sitting on top of a man outside a Swansea takeaway – one talking into his radio as the other two try to handcuff their suspect.
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>In front of them, lying casually on the floor with a cigarette in one hand and his phone in the other, is a young man taking a pouting selfie. Behind is a young blonde girl with her tongue out, giving the v-sign. Next to her, breaking through the fourth wall by looking straight at Legakis’s lens, is the only sober-looking figure not in uniform, who clutches one of the police officers’ helmets.
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>A photograph of police arresting a drunken man outside a Swansea takeaway on “Black Eye Friday” has gone viral, with some comparing it to “a boozy Renaissance painting” and others seeing the influence of French Romanticism.
>
>One admirer of the shot, by Dimitris Legakis, thought it merited a spot alongside the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo: “Wind Street. Swansea. Put it in the Louvre.”
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>The picture was taken at about 12.30am on the last Friday before Christmas, an evening so notorious for alcohol-fuelled carousing that it has come to be known on our drink-soaked island as Mad Friday or Black Eye Friday.
>
>It shows three police officers in hi-vis jackets sitting on top of a man outside a Swansea takeaway – one talking into his radio as the other two try to handcuff their suspect.
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>In front of them, lying casually on the floor with a cigarette in one hand and his phone in the other, is a young man taking a pouting selfie. Behind is a young blonde girl with her tongue out, giving the v-sign. Next to her, breaking through the fourth wall by looking straight at Legakis’s lens, is the only sober-looking figure not in uniform, who clutches one of the police officers’ helmets.
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