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Van drives into pedestrians in Germany
BBC ^ | 04/07/2018

Posted on 04/07/2018 8:14:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A van is reported to have driven into pedestrians in the city of Muenster, in western Germany.

A police spokeswoman has said there are "several dead, probably including the suspect".

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: europe; germany; jihadineurope; muslims; pedestrians; van; wot
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To: Bryanw92

Entirely too clear and too true.


101 posted on 04/07/2018 10:10:44 AM PDT by null and void ("We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?" ~ Joseph Stalin)
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To: BenLurkin

Authorities are still trying to determine the motive for this attack if it even was an “attack” and the drive didn’t just fall asleep. UGH!!


102 posted on 04/07/2018 10:15:19 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: BenLurkin

http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2018-04/muenster-auto-tote-live

Per link, supposedly German born nutter, which means this isn’t terrorism.

Okaaaay...


103 posted on 04/07/2018 10:15:53 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

https://www.tz.de/welt/news-ticker-zu-anschlag-in-muenster-auto-rast-in-menschenmenge-mehrere-tote-zr-9759649.html

Per link, 49 YO German loony, with “apparently” no links to terrorism. They are also checking the perp’s home for bombs.


104 posted on 04/07/2018 10:19:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

Yep, read same. Makes sense.


105 posted on 04/07/2018 10:21:35 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: pinkandgreenmom

RIP very sad.

Maybe this is Weimar redux. Merkel, et. al., are provoking a crisis so the people demand a “solution” and the Soviet Republics are reborn? This is the only way this welcoming of barbarians makes sense to me.


106 posted on 04/07/2018 10:33:23 AM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education.)
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To: Spok

Without any studies at all, I observed how much nicer everyone in our office was, and how much calmer the environment, when several people were out on any given day.


107 posted on 04/07/2018 10:35:19 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: BenLurkin

where’s chet99 when you need him.
His head would explode with real self-driving cars.
Probably why he switched from SUVs to Pit Bulls...he saw it coming.


108 posted on 04/07/2018 10:36:57 AM PDT by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: BenLurkin
"Another police spokesman, Andreas Bode, said it was still too early to declare the incident an attack."

Three dead, over a dozen wounded, driver shot himself, and a Gestapo spokesdud claims its "still too early to declare the incident an attack.

Joseph Goebbels would have been proud.

109 posted on 04/07/2018 10:43:59 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Drew68

“So much untreated mental illness in Germany these days. Sad.”

Our own mental sanity ain’t much better.


110 posted on 04/07/2018 10:44:19 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: mewzilla

Gee, I wonder where he got the idea from?


111 posted on 04/07/2018 10:47:01 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Hey brainwashed students . . . where's your "outrage" @FBI? @BrowardSheriff? DO SOMETHING!!)
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To: Spok

I should have pinged you to my reply #98. I linked a fascinating article talking about the mouse study.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3645639/posts?page=98#98

I don’t know if the link will work.


112 posted on 04/07/2018 10:50:00 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Bryanw92
>>I wonder if population density is a factor here. There is a reason that the most pathological of societal forces are concentrated in large cities.

Not really. That’s a contributor, but the real factor is comfort and accessibility of products and services. In a modern, developed nation the cities have everything and it is just around the corner.

Check my reply #98. In the population density experiments, the mice had everything they needed. The issues that arose were purely psychological, aberrant behaviors resulting from pressures of high population density. Humans are psychologically more complex than mice, hence our dysfunctions are proportionately more complex. But the same dynamics are at work. We have so much open space, why do so many coop themselves up in cities?

113 posted on 04/07/2018 10:58:45 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Spok
When will the Jerries grow weary of being murdered? Most cultures value life. This mentality of national suicide is baffling

apparently a good portion of the bravery gene in male Germans was bred out of the culture after the World War 2 generation perished.

114 posted on 04/07/2018 11:00:22 AM PDT by Larry381 (Desperate Diseases need Desperate Remedies)
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To: fella

Yup.

CNN is calling it a “Delivery Van Attack”

No joke.


115 posted on 04/07/2018 11:02:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: exDemMom

>>Humans are psychologically more complex than mice, hence our dysfunctions are proportionately more complex.

Our ability to cope with sub-optimal conditions is much better too. A human can put on a headset, sit on a park bench, and read a book in the middle of a crowd and still be “alone”.

Humans also understand the concept of time. We can sit in a crowded, stressful office counting the minutes until quitting time when we can go home to sit with our X-Box. Rats cannot comprehend such things.

>>But the same dynamics are at work. We have so much open space, why do so many coop themselves up in cities?

Because, as I stated, people CHOOSE to in order to reap the rewards of city living. When they do get fed up and move to the country, the first thing they do is complain about the lack of amenities in the burbs (or beyond). The second thing is to try and get the decision-makers to bring some those amenities to the rubes (who don’t want or need it—but once they get it, they will quickly wonder how they survived without it).


116 posted on 04/07/2018 11:06:54 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: chris37

Thank Frau Merkel, worst Chancellor since...you-know-who.


117 posted on 04/07/2018 11:13:19 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Gerhard Schröder?


118 posted on 04/07/2018 11:14:40 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Bryanw92
Our ability to cope with sub-optimal conditions is much better too. A human can put on a headset, sit on a park bench, and read a book in the middle of a crowd and still be “alone”.

You are talking about people in crowded situations who purposely block themselves off from any human contact, even in crowded environments. Parallels to that behavior were seen in the mouse and rat studies. Some of the mice gave up trying to get accepted into social groups, and just went off on their own, in a habitat filled with mice.

I've suspected that a high level dysfunction is going on in human society, and much of it is a result of population pressures. Not over-population--clearly, we are not on the verge of running out of resources--but simply being too crowded. It is not difficult to see that the most dysfunctional areas are those with the highest population densities.

119 posted on 04/07/2018 11:20:39 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Calvin Locke

Psychological issues, eh? Ya think?


120 posted on 04/07/2018 11:22:20 AM PDT by Migraine ((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
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