The term stems from the Italian habit of conducting banking on wooden benches in marketplaces banca rupta means broken bench.
Images broadcast by NHK showed two burnt out cars, one of which belonged to the dead man, about 200 meters (650 feet) from the park and a charred broken bench at the edge of the park, where a folk art festival was underway.
The mayor spends his days driving around in a Ford Expedition, intense, distracted, attacking the Blackberry electronic planner in his hands, plugging in the coordinates of a broken bench or drug-plagued corner.
Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, which had scored a D on the last report card, raised its overall grade to 91. "Many problems that we identified in 2010 had been remedied, including broken benches in sitting areas and separating safety surfacing in the playgrounds," the report said of Marcus Garvey.
But it's a better solution than breaking benches.
"A lot of people take the park for granted, but 25 years ago, the lights were broken, the benches were broken," Douglas Blonsky, the conservancy's president, said.
If a guest's happiness level is low enough, he will turn into a vandal and break benches and lamps in your park, which in turn will affect other guests' happiness level.
The Pineywoods ride, for which more than 2,000 people gathered over the course of three days, started and ended on a farm with an open-sided pavilion that, by the end, would be in a sorry shambles — its benches broken from the weight of people climbing up to get a look at the musicians, an industrial-size Dumpster outside overflowing with the detritus of revelry.
The people rushed upon each other with the utmost violence, the benches were broken in pieces, and nine tenths of the congregation appeared to be struck with the same panic".
Across the river is another kind of archive: the Indian Botanic Garden, said to house trees from five continents but its collection is poorly marked, the benches are broken and it seems better suited for canoodlers than botanists.
Dumped refuse, graffiti-covered walls, stair and benches and broken barriers alongside the River Tiber will mean that the Rome scenes in the Sam Mendes-directed film are a demonstration of everything that's gone wrong with the city's management, according to a campaign group.
