Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Stress of the Mask Business

Down in Speyer (about an hour south of Frankfurt)....a 61-year-old German guy had gone to the grocery. 

No mask.

He enters the store and is confronted by the grocery manager.  He's already shopped and gotten his goods.  The confrontation gets the guy ballistic, and he finally dumps the goods at the feet of the manager.

Then the old guy walks out....gets into his car....reeves up the engine, and off he goes straight ahead (out of the parking lot)....into the adjacent farmer's field. 

Based on the picture (reported by SWR)....I'd say he got about 100 meters into the field before traction 'stopped'. 

Cops called?  Yep.

The car required a wrecker to dig it out.  Ticket?  Yep. 

Figure around 20k Euro of damage to the car, and a ticket which requires a judge to have a face-to-face meeting.  My guess is that a mandatory doctor examination, and some notation of Corona-stress being a problem.  I'm just guessing here, but I seriously doubt that he gets the license back in 2020, and it'll be a hassle to show 'responsibility' now. 

It's simply a sign that the general public is losing patience with the whole mask business.  The manager probably handled this as well as one can....but its adding frustration almost every single week. 

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