A man stood atop a car with a sledgehammer, smashing it violently in the middle of a narrow street. When police officers arrived and uncovered the heartbreaking reason behind his actions, they were left in disbelief. On a narrow cobblestone street in the historic quarter of Florence, Italy, the ordinary hum of daily life was suddenly interrupted by a sharp, heavy sound. It was the kind of noise that made people wince instinctively — like the crash of iron colliding with iron, or a thick sheet of