Posted on 04/11/2025 5:02:10 AM PDT by Twotone
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~This, for example, is an interesting development. From the Reinickendorf district of Berlin:
Mann stürmt mit Machete in Bäckerei – und wird mit Baseballschlägern totgeprügelt
Which means:
Man storms into bakery with machete - and is beaten to death with baseball bats
Who takes a baseball bat to a bakery? Well, as usual, the local media coverage is minimal and designed to obfuscate. The 38-year-old deceased had apparently been living in a homeless shelter and was a regular of the baker's who believed him to be Romanian. He entered the shop on the Residenzstraße bearing the increasingly popular Euro-accessory of a machete, and commenced attacking a quintet of roofers aged from early twenties to late fifties who had just procured their rolls and coffees. The customers fought back with chairs, and, when their attacker fled, took off in hot pursuit. They caught up with him outside a nearby school, got him to the ground, and clubbed him to death. All five were arrested at the scene.
I can sympathise with the chaps. I don't go to Germany terribly often, and it has been a while since I have been to Berlin. But I was in the deep south and far north of the country not so long ago, and at either end the first thing I do of a morning is stroll to a favourite bakery and take a coffee with the accompanying glass of water at a sidewalk table. It would be immensely irritating to have one's start to the day interrupted by the usual machete-wielding nutter and I can well understand the urge to beat him to a pulp. The normalisation of phrases such as "Macheten-Mann" does not speak well for any polity.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
I would think pulling a machete on a group of guys in the construction trades having their morning coffee would be classified as suicide.
Sitting under a sidewalk umbrella at a Berlin cafe, enjoying a fresh coffee with a Blitzenburger doughnut, watching the staff beat a machete weilding jihadist nutter to a pulp with American hickory ,has a very high entertainment value.
I am sure it will attract thousands of customers, they will have to increase their sidewalk seating capacity.
Alahwahoo Whackbar !
German ingenuity PING !
Where did they get the baseball bats?
Louisville?
Lucy, Trixie, you got some ‘splaining to do!
Did Steyn mean, who takes a machete to a bakery?”???
Oops.
Happy ending.
LOL…great turn of phrase!
Who takes a machete to a bakery?
Hello? Have you ever heard of sliced bread? It’s great, I hear. One of the best things ever.
I’m Italian with a large minor of Sarson (Scot).
You don’t want to be in my kitchen when I’m flinging dough & knives.
;-)
Seriously, though: My hit n run browsing interpretation was that the perp went into the bakery with machete to cause injury/death and the bakers deployed their stash of lawfully owned Louisville Sluggers with extreme prejudice in defense (makes me smile).
It’s just rare for Steyn to make such an error...if that’s what it was. (Time’s short this morning and I didn’t read the whole piece.)
The club scene in Berlin is now open for breakfast!
Guy should have waited until they had their breakfast.
Bkmk
I read a story originating in the UK. The headline read, "Naked man seen running from shop with a battered sausage". My initial reaction was surprise that an attack of that kind might occur. Why was that done to him? Later, I learned a "battered sausage" is UK speak for a "corn dog". A hotdog dipped in batter and fried. A slight cultural misunderstanding.
I can’t stop laughing!
Almost worth a trip to Germany.
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