Posted on 01/01/2010 5:24:28 PM PST by Steelfish
Hundreds of Cars Torched in France at New Year
Fri Jan 1, 2010 PARIS (Reuters) - Youths burned 1,137 cars across France overnight as New Year's Eve celebrations once again turned violent, the French Interior Ministry said on Friday. Car burnings are regular occurrences in poor suburbs that ring France's big cities, but the arson is especially prevalent during New Year's Eve revelry.
The number of vehicles torched was only 10 short of the record 1,147 burned this time last year, even though the Interior Ministry mobilized 45,000 police during the night -- 10,000 more than 12 months ago.
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I really can’t believe the French stand for this. If it happened in this country, the streets would run red.
Theyre gettin all oui-ouied up over there...
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Cute. :)
France...youths...nothing else need be said. I know the ending of this event.
Lighten up on the mooslims. They can’t win. Whadya want them to do...burn camels????? Then the PETA types would be upset.
This is how French Muslim Yoots do a REAL economic stimulus...
The French like new cars ~ under the current economic conditions prices are at their lowest in years AND, best of all, there are incentives of all sort.
What is missing is lines of credit to finance those new cars.
However, you can supplement your loan with a nice downpayment if your car is totaled. French auto insurance will PAY what you need.
So, how do you get your car totaled? Simple ~ drive it to a Moslem suburb. They regularly torch cars from outside their areas for a small payment of, let's say, 25 EU, or maybe 50 EU.
These events frequently overlap traditional "youthful protest" dates ~ e.g. national holidays like NEW YEARS.
Burn baby burn ~ and the youth get paid, and the car owners get paid, and the claims adjusters DON'T HAVE TO INVESTIGATE things that happen in the Moslem suburbs, so no funny questions will be asked about how your car got burned.
That's the French system. Works for them if not for us.
The normal level of burning is about 100 cars per day, and on weekends and holidays it can jump to an average of 400 cars ~ but MORE ARE POSSIBLE when car prices are declining and there are deals to be made.
“Cash for Clunkers”
I was thinking the same thing...
Euros pour le Clunkers, n’est ce pas?
It must be France’s version of ‘cash for clunkers’.
Le Czar de l’Auto Francaise est “Pepe le Peugeot.”
The French get some things wrong, but they get some things really right. Think nuclear power... think wine... think cheese... Several trips to France, including Paris, and I have yet to meet a rude Frenchman. And don't forget they supported our Revolution (I assume you are also an American). For which (in a sense) we subsequently repaid them by freeing them from the Nazis.
I say, "Vive le France!" (And yes, I probably said it wrong...)
How’s come the “youths” in France can burn 1,200 cars with no consequences, but a family in San Francisco lights a fire in their fireplace and gets fined?
This world is going FUBAR!
You did...Vive la France!
This is simply the Frog version of “Cash for Clunkers”; they pre-burn the cars prior to trading them in for 4,000 francs.
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“only 10 short of the record 1,147 burned this time last year
An unexpected loss in the number of torched cars...
The Mussies are slipping up.”
perhaps they will demand a re-count. It works for their allies over here.
>Youths burned 1,137 cars
In other news, 1,137 more conservatives across France ...
>Mohammad, Muhummad, and Mohammed...
Look! Diversity! ;)
Thanks, K! I don’t speak French, und mein Deutsch doesn’t get me very far there either. (Neither does Gaelic, which situation I don’t understand at all... *\;-)
Apparently this phenomenon of ‘’youths’’ must be something indigenous to France ,say, like an algae bloom or something. Perhaps a grant by the EU to some bunch of French scientists might get to the root cause of this ‘’youth’’ problem(sarcasm).
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