Amish?
Don’t they know that burning cars contributes to Life-Threatening Global Warming? Or have they purchased the necessary carbon credits from Al Gore?
Interested American infidels want to know.
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Car insurance in France must cost a bundle!
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.
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.
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
Muslim “youths” and their riotous conduct aside, the following should be pointed out:
Most of the vehicles burned were probably French-made cars. As such, this *could* be considered legitimate automotive criticism.
(evil grin)
“the sale of petrol in cans was banned in some places.
Great move in an educational sense as it’s a good way to teach the physics/techniques of a siphon.
France, I applaud your efforts to educate youth!
The cost of car insurance in France must have skyrocketed in the past 5 years.
French methods of confrontation are well documented in history.
The judge let the guy go because he was unemployed and suffering economic depression (his words).
The perp was not Amish.
Moselms perhaps ?
Why not call em what they are ?
LOL!
Remains to be seen what Sarkozy will do to what he called "scum" during his campaign for president.
The "scum", aka, "youths" should be thrown in jail, French Citizenship stripped/deported, property replacement/penalty fines, etc.
You may be astonished how some European countries could turn on a dime, disregard/suspend their Constitutions in "extraordinary circumstances"!
Happy New Year!
This is for sure a good way to stimulate the domestic automotive manufacturing industry. Perhaps Peugeot even encourages this hooliganism. It contributes to the next several months’ sales (offset, as was pointed out, by certain higher auto insurance rates).
Relative to what, Baghdad circa 2004?
As Rush says, being a liberal is the most gutless choice a person can make. It obviously leads to apathy whereby not even the burning of vehicles on the streets is considered “relatively calm”.
We Americans don’t put with such criminal acts.