Vanity: France Burned Car Count

various ^ | November 6, 2005 | precedence

[precedence]

Since Rush mentioned a burned car count today, I gathered together some sources online, and compiled this site. I will do my best to keep the page updated until the rioting ceases. If you have more information or better numbers, let me know.

Burned Car Count

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Don't forget the buses. Saw a pic of 28 city buses in a row burnt out....

[b4its2late]

You might want to change the source on November 4th from "Bangcock" to "Bangkok".

LOL. I didn't even notice that .. LOL... Whoops.

[RoseofTexas]

Churches too? I bet you none were Mosques!

[SlowBoat407]

So if smoke from the burning french cars keeps mosquitos away, can we call it "Citroen-ella"?

[soccer_maniac]

I wonder how these numbers are accumulated.

French secrect service (what an oxymoron) must be compiling data furiously.

Buses should count for 5 cars :)

[U S Army EOD]

You don't remember the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior with all hands on board at the time in Wellington Harbor?

[U S Army EOD]

I have already switched to wine and am sitting back watching Paris burn.

[b4its2late]

I'll toast you later tonight. Thank you for your service!

[U S Army EOD]

Please, so of us take this very serious.

[gitmo]

Oh yeah! France's finest hour, indeed.

[standingfirm]

Somehow, all of this must be Bush's fault

[11th_VA]

From another thread:

About 4,700 cars have been burned in France since the rioting began and 1,200 suspects were detained at least temporarily, Gaudin said...

[USMCPOP]

Why doesn't Cindy come out and tie herself to one of these cars?

[U S Army EOD]

If Bush had rounded up cars instead of terrorist and sent them to Gitmo, no cars would have been burned. Got to be his fault.

[U S Army EOD]

Meet me in Paris and I will help you tie her to a burning one.

[VoiceOfBruck]

I know there have been injuries, but has anyone died from the rioting yet, aside from the 2 kids that initially got electrocuted?

Sorry, I'm allergic to the MSM.

[TC Rider]

We use Louisiana officials to give 'official' figures.

On Monday night my Mama called and said, 'My car's on fire'. And I said don't worry Mama, we're coming.

On Tuesday night...

[soccer_maniac]

While you gather stats, you could include

# of people arrested (over 600 in total)
# of towns with riots (up to 274 towns yesterday)
# of police involved (over 8,000)
# of troops involved (1,500)

[Steve Van Doorn]

question:
why did the Muslims target cars and not buildings? I know some buildings where burned but the target seemed to be cars. Why?

[U S Army EOD]

At least one was reported. Some guy that got beat up died today. But since the police can't even get in the neighborhoods who knows. Note: All photograpths seem to have police presence in them, no journalist are going it alone.