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There are so many things wrong with this story I do not even know where to start. Via CNN (full story here):
BERLIN, Germany (AP) — A German man doused his BMW with gasoline and torched it Friday in protest at skyrocketing fuel costs, police said.
The unemployed 30-year-old man drove a black 1995 BMW 3-series sedan onto the lawn outside Frankfurt’s convention center grounds at about 7:30 a.m., police spokesman Karlheinz Wagner said.
He then jumped out, emptied a canister of gas over the vehicle and set fire to it, Wagner said.
Okay, so you are protesting gas prices by buying gas and lighting it, and the vehicle the gas is used to proper, on fire? Seems like kind of a lose-lose situation to me. And it’s a real lose-lose-lose-lose when you add to the fact that dude is unemployed and will likely be fined heavily or put in jail. Don’t know about anyone else, but wouldn’t a fitting protest be to buy and bike and ride public transit?
The story did remind me of an old joke:
Question: What’s the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?
Answer: On a porcupine the pricks are on the outside.
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6 comments for this entry ↓
1 David Halfpenny // Jul 21, 2008 at 5:49 am
That’s not a porcupine, it’s an echidna.
2 Barnaby Snuff // Jul 21, 2008 at 7:54 am
A short-nosed a echidna!
A marauding myrmecophagous monotreme!
3 JC // Jul 21, 2008 at 8:58 am
I wasn’t sure what it was, but I was pretty certain it wasn’t a porcupine!
4 douggie // Jul 21, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I don’t think that’s a porcupine. It looks more like a hedgehog.
5 Matt // Jul 21, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Man, I never would have thunk I would get grief from a picture of an animal on a bike focused blog =)
I simply did a google picture search and this specimen showed up. I guess I will have to make sure to check on animal classification if I make a critter reference in the future.
6 Elfer // Jul 25, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Buying a bike and taking public transit isn’t a protest, it’s a solution.
Nobody is interested in that sort of thing.
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