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trivia: the Bucharest 'Palace of Parliament ' is the world's heaviest building. It's also supposed to a great security system...
1 posted on 12/30/2021 2:11:20 AM PST by blueplum
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Was he staying in the Presidential Suite?


2 posted on 12/30/2021 2:13:40 AM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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Feel good story of the day.


3 posted on 12/30/2021 2:13:58 AM PST by Artemis Webb (Be kind to each other, unless the other guy is a dumbass.)
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4 posted on 12/30/2021 2:17:47 AM PST by DannyTN
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I travel to Romania a lot and been to the outside of that building, and even took a photo of it, I could even see it from the roof of my Hotel, its that big.


6 posted on 12/30/2021 2:20:44 AM PST by the_individual2014
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He was from Florida.


9 posted on 12/30/2021 2:42:26 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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Sounds like an insurrection to me. /s


10 posted on 12/30/2021 2:45:59 AM PST by FreedomForce
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Reminds me of when I was waiting for the Macau ferry after a night of gambling and drinking. I passed out in the waiting area and woke up looking for the bathroom.

I found a bathroom and then walked out of the terminal and jumped in a taxi and told the guy to bring me to my Hong Kong address. The guy said “this is Macau”.

So I got out and tried to go back through immigration. The lady said “How did you get out here?” I said “That’s not my problem. My problem is getting back in there and getting on the ferry that’s leaving in 5 minutes.”

They had no idea how I got out of the holding area and neither did I. So they let me back in, because they didn’t want some drunk American from Hong Kong hanging around. Scratching their heads the whole time...


11 posted on 12/30/2021 2:56:57 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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when my husband was stationed in Japan, one of his drunk buddies stormed a house thinking he belonged there.
So a 6’5” blonde bellowing hulk enters your tiny house at 2 in the AM.....and of course the owners were a tiny,older, Japanese couple who called the police.
That story always makes me laugh-


13 posted on 12/30/2021 3:31:13 AM PST by ronniesgal (if more folks would mind their own business the world would be a better place.)
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Nothing like perpetuating the stereotype (a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image) - a drunken Irishman!

14 posted on 12/30/2021 3:33:09 AM PST by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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15 posted on 12/30/2021 4:01:58 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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The Bucharest 'Palace of Parliament ' is the world's heaviest building.

Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918-1989), the late and very UNLAMENTED supreme leader of Romania, an avid imitator of both Stalin and Kim Jong-Il of North Korea (NK), apparently got his inspiration for this from a 1971 visit to NK. Building got started in 1984 (paging George Orwell) and took until 1997 to 'complete' (1,100 rooms in design, only 400 complete). Status of the eight underground level that includes a nuclear bunker is unknown!

Unfortunately, poor Nikki never got to enjoy his 'creation' as Romania got swept up in the 1989 collapse of the Warsaw Pact countries. Initially there were demonstration (December 1989) in the western parts near Hungary which was peacefully changing but Ceaușescu ordered the army to put the perceived revolt by force and they obeyed, causing injuries and deaths. When it became known who made the order, the entire country appeared to erupt in the sole violent overthrow of these countries. When his army defected, Ceaușescu and his wife (equally reviled) escaped Bucharest by helicopter on 22 December. The escape was thwarted by the army though and after a very efficient trial, the Ceaușescus got a Christmas gift from their countrymen, a firing squad!

16 posted on 12/30/2021 4:15:13 AM PST by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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An Irishman has been arrested for breaking into the Romanian Presidential Palace after 'mistaking it for his hotel' while drunk [...]

When I look back at all the Romanian Presidential Palaces, Dallas book depositories, hardened nuclear silos, and unmanned Alaskan weather stations I've broken into while drunk...

Regards,

17 posted on 12/30/2021 4:17:52 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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“’Palace of Parliament has protection systems developed by The Securitatae (the former secret police of Communist Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu)...”

Holy cow. He’s lucky they didn’t walk him straight out to “The Wall”.


18 posted on 12/30/2021 4:40:44 AM PST by moovova
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This wouldn’t be funny if it were anyone other than an Irishman.


19 posted on 12/30/2021 4:43:32 AM PST by twister881
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And they say, “God invented alcohol to keep the Irish from conquering the world.”
Paddy was one pint of Guiness from taking over Southeastern Europe!


20 posted on 12/30/2021 4:54:27 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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“The Irish citizen reached the third floor of the building in a breach that has ignited a review into the security of the People’s House.”

If it’s a people’d house, and I assume this guy is a people, then what’s the problem? After all breaking into your own house is not a crime (unless you’re like that black professor in MA and act like a criminal, in order to stir up racial hatred).


23 posted on 12/30/2021 5:24:19 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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Because the Irish are white and its ok to discriminate against that fact and perpetuate centuries old stereotypes against certain chosen nationalities.


27 posted on 12/30/2021 7:14:06 AM PST by Delta 21 (Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.)
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“When quizzed by police, he was unable to remember how he broke in.”

broke in? try walked in...

he thought it was his hotel, why would he break into his own hotel?

security screwed up, deal with it...


29 posted on 12/30/2021 9:40:11 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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