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Putting the brakes on the Brits - Trans-Europe Race Stopped in Cologne
Der Spiegel ^ | June 13, 2007 | cgh/dpa

Posted on 06/13/2007 9:14:34 PM PDT by Atlantic Bridge

Organizers of the modified-car excursion across Europe insisted that ModBall 2007 was "neither a rally nor a race." The German police on Monday afternoon, however, begged to differ. And the inaugural event, with its 77 cars and 143 participants -- most of them from Britain -- was shut down on just the second of a planned seven legs across Europe.

The German autobahn police began getting reports on Monday afternoon of cars racing south near Düsseldorf. Drivers reported several cars -- each with similar stickers and numbers -- bombing down the highway with little regard for life and limb, some recklessly passing on the right. One driver even reported seeing a ModBall participant hanging out of a car window filming his fellow racers.

Cops stopped the ModBall auto rally near Cologne on Monday afternoon.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Germany; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: autobahnhooliganism; brits; germany; gumball; race
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To: britemp
The krauts still get a bit sensitive when large groups of Brits ‘bomb’ along their highways towards Berlin - brings back bad memories for them, so they spoil the party! :)

The Brits were part of WWII? Well, nobody in the Wehrmacht noticed, they were to busy with the Russians - so no sensitivities whatsoever ;).
21 posted on 06/14/2007 6:50:49 AM PDT by wolf78 (Penn & Teller Libertarian - Equal Opportunity Offender)
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To: britemp

No hard feelings mate - we love to see our german bentleys, rolls royes and mini coopers in berlin :P


22 posted on 06/28/2007 5:12:38 AM PDT by Rummenigge (there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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To: Moose4

i’d be long dead...


23 posted on 06/28/2007 5:13:22 AM PDT by Rummenigge (there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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To: HardStarboard

No rice burners in that picture - although I am not to sure about the white one - could be Opel or Vauxshall (GM).

One is a beamer, one is a peugot and there’s a alpha romeo to the right.


24 posted on 06/28/2007 5:15:45 AM PDT by Rummenigge (there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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