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372 French cars torched over "calm" New Year
China Daily ^ | 2008-01-01

Posted on 01/01/2008 9:34:24 AM PST by bahblahbah

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1 posted on 01/01/2008 9:34:25 AM PST by bahblahbah
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Amish?


2 posted on 01/01/2008 9:35:15 AM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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Nah! Bhuddists


3 posted on 01/01/2008 9:36:08 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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Amish?

Youths. Those pesky, pesky youths.

4 posted on 01/01/2008 9:36:37 AM PST by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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To: bahblahbah

Don’t they know that burning cars contributes to Life-Threatening Global Warming? Or have they purchased the necessary carbon credits from Al Gore?


5 posted on 01/01/2008 9:37:24 AM PST by hellbender
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Close...

Amish-Buddhist youts


6 posted on 01/01/2008 9:37:54 AM PST by John123 ("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
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To: bahblahbah
Vandals, or Muslim scum?


Interested American infidels want to know.

7 posted on 01/01/2008 9:38:03 AM PST by G.Mason (And what is intelligence if not the craft of out-thinking our adversaries?)
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To: bahblahbah

bump


8 posted on 01/01/2008 9:38:18 AM PST by VOA
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Car insurance in France must cost a bundle!


9 posted on 01/01/2008 9:39:14 AM PST by Ken522
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They didn't have cars in the 8th century, but they did have fire.
10 posted on 01/01/2008 9:39:52 AM PST by ditto h
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Amish?

No, the very first word says it was "Vandals"

"angry youths" is the next words used to describe these misguided peaceful young people.

Must be those Huguenots who are burning cars

11 posted on 01/01/2008 9:40:21 AM PST by Popman ("We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton)
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Car-b-que ... at least the local police did not have to issue a stay indoors warning as the citizenty fired guns into the air, as is routinely done on New Years’ Eve in Greater (and lesser) Miami.


13 posted on 01/01/2008 9:41:41 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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I understand that nobody in France wants to do “investigative” journalism into these car burnings, because the facts are unpleasant, politically incorrect, and liable to bring the bearer of news in front of a PC tribunal, accused of hate crimes.

But I am curious. Who owns these cars? Who pays the damage? Does everyone in France pay higher insurance rates so the owners can be reimbursed?

I can only assume that no one would park their cars in one of these “suburbs” other than the families of the “youts” themselves. Would anyone in his right senses park his car in the South Bronx unless he wanted to collect insurance on it? So, are these youts busy burning dad’s car? Their neighbor’s car?

Inquiring minds want to know. It seems as if this would be a major burden on the economy, having to deal with tens of thousands of burned out car hulks so the youts can entertain themselves.


14 posted on 01/01/2008 9:42:11 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Vandals torched 372 cars as France celebrated the New Year

The prime minister announced Sunday that a ban on smoking in schools, offices and other public buildings will start in February, while restaurants, dance clubs and some bars have until 2008 to comply.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006100800915.html/

The French have some misplaced priorities

16 posted on 01/01/2008 9:42:25 AM PST by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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Detroit Amish? :)
Hell Night reference (night before Halloween).


17 posted on 01/01/2008 9:42:31 AM PST by xc1427 (It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...Midnight Oil (Power and the Passion))
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So, when France finally falls....

They have nukes. And a few decent subs. Maybe we finally get to do a full field operational test on those neutron bombs? American taxes paid for the invention, development, construction and storage of the dang things. It’s about time we get to see them used.

Just in case the issue comes up while I’m away from the keyboard...

I vote for France to be turned into a medieval theme park and live Renaissances Fair.


18 posted on 01/01/2008 9:42:52 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: NonValueAdded

Why do French authorities put up with this ?


19 posted on 01/01/2008 9:43:22 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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