Playtime in Germany

So this is what we know....two German kids....both six years old.....triggered a regional alert here in Germany this week.

They apparently decided that they’d play a round of pretend work on a nuclear power plant....don’t ask how this came to their mind, but it did. As part of this effort, they needed nuclear signs, to make the proper play atmosphere.

So they went to a computer and did a search for signs...to make the atmosphere more realistic....and found these neat radioactive warning signs....then printed them....in color....and put them up on the door of pretend-work center.

Noisy German neighbors then came to see the odd signs....walk up....and then go into a panic after seeing the word “nuclear”. More than ten police and fire vehicles ended up reacting to the episode (as though they didn’t have enough crime or fires in the afternoon to handle).

The cops ended up closing off the roads and area.....just to deal with the “threat”.
All of this occurred after the two punk kids walked off for a break.

Naturally, I looked at my color printer for a while....a long while....and just a mischievous bit of thought crept into my mind. I won’t say what.....but one day....in my village....folks just might find 300 “nuclear work” signs up on the doors....and the whole village might be locked down for a morning.

The Italy Bonds, Updated

The current best believed scenario on the 135-odd billion in bond deal in Italy?

The mafia did it.....and it would appear more like this as each minute goes by. The bonds are bogus and the entire script that has fallen into place suggest the Mafia wanted to make the Italian cops look like fools. Even the US government, who viewed the bonds....strongly suggested that it was no big effort to determine they were fake.

So somewhere out there this morning....a couple of Mafia guys are laughing over this "joke". Every cop they come across....they probably ask if they have any "bonds"? The whole thing ought to be made into a movie.

The Italy Bonds

The Italian bond episode that I blogged a couple of days ago?

Bogus....the US experts have examined the bonds and declared them completely bogus. In fact, they suggested that the Italian experts should have come to that conclusion very quickly, so they must not have been even good bogus bonds.

Why? No one has any idea. The two Japanese guys? No comments.

Was it a test? Was it a hoax from the first minute....intended as so? It's a curious story with still no end.

Dresden and the Damn Bridge

There is a function within the United Nations....and it's a bit confusing why they exist...but apparently....UNESCO's big mission....is to run something called "World Heritage" effort.

It's like a five-star club, and certainly expensive campaign is involved in some fashion...you just have to trust me on that.

So for a long time...Dresden here in Germany....was a world heritage site. Apparently, they are about to lose their status.

What did Dresden do to lose their status?

For about one hundred years...they've been talking about building a bridge over the Elbe River....and help fix up a traffic problem. To be honest, I don't see how it was it was a problem 100 years ago....but the experts in Dresden say it's been talked about for a long, long, long time.

Apparently, a major part of the UNESCO effort is that you don't fix nothing, improve nothing or build nothing. And if you can do this for 300 years....you get bonus points of some unknown variety.

The humorous part of this deal....is that someone within UNESCO says a new bridge "will irreversibly tear apart the historic cultural landscape.”

It's bad enough that foreigners get involved in your business...but to hold some status up above your head, and then kinda jab you and say new bridges will destroy culture...well, you have to start laughing.

The curious thing for me....is this a German guy or two in UNESCO saying all of this? The press is very careful in attributing who says what and won't come out to say who runs this function of UNESCO.