Ravenwood - 01/02/06 06:30 AM
French officials called in thousands of extra policemen for New Year's Eve. The New York Times reports on a disturbing French past-time that has police worried:
Hundreds of cars are set ablaze over the holiday every year and French officials fear that the arson could be even worse this year, mimicking the recent violence that destroyed thousands of vehicles and dozens of buildings.I'm sure a ban would work here, but what? Cars, matches, or French youths? Better yet, how about making car burning illegal.
In Virginia we celebrated New Years without any car burning at all.
Category: Schadenfreude
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Hell, it' been so dry here in Texas that we couldn't even (legally) carry out the time-honored tradition of blowing $&!# up, much less burning cars. I'm not certain our neighbors got the memo, though...
Posted by: Jack Cluth at January 2, 2006 1:21 PMHow insensitive! Don't you know that, in some cultures, burning cars is self-expression? Don't you want some people to express themselves in the beauty of fire?
Posted by: Brian J. at January 2, 2006 7:37 PMI think the reason we don't celebrate by burning cars, at least in my neighborhood, is that the first celebratory arsonist would also be the last.
Severe gunshot wounds seriously tend to deflate the festivity of a celebration, don't you know?
Posted by: Gery N. at January 3, 2006 3:13 AMOur New Years here in northern calfornnia has ended up in flooding and lots of rain i suppose they will blame BUSH for not abiding by the junk science inspired KYOTO TREATY
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