'Patrol' Story

 It is a bit funny, but it really lays out the public discontent.

So, there's this 'campaign' going on in Hamburg, with a SPD 'Senator' by the name of Andy Grote.  

The starting point?  Some fans had a celebration situation going on one evening around the Hamburg soccer stadium (FC St. Pauli Stadium).  'Senator' Grote went to social media (Twitter) say some harsh words over the fans in a possible Covid situation and that they should not behave in such a way.  Yeah, he does use the word 'ignorant'.

Ignorant is not a bad word to use or even considered 'hate speech', but it does give the idea that the person in question is stupid.

N-TV discusses the bulk of this.

Back last year at some point....Grote went and broke one of the city hygiene rules on Covid....by having a celebration at some pub....which did eventually lead to a fine leveled by the city (1,000 Euro). 

People remembered that celebration deal.

After the stadium event....with Grote condemning this crowd.....someone used their Twitter account to send a tweet at Grote: "Andy, Du bist so 1 Pimmel" (translating to Andy, you are a #1 'willie').  'Willie' tends to mean a male 'Johnson' (for you Americans).

Grote felt this was an insult, and went to the state prosecutor office, and a search warrant started up on the Twitter writer.

Well....as you can imagine....this got out into the public, and there are various people in the city now....who have stickers made up and put them on signs/posts.....'Andy, you're a dick'.

Naturally, the city now has cops on the job.....trying to scrap off the stickers, and if you are found afixing the stickers...it can get you into serious trouble.

But by going after the Twitter guy, and having his home searched.....it's opened up a whole public agenda with the stupid stickers.  

Police now wasting their time on sticker-patrol around the St Pauli district?  More or less.  They don't say anything much but I would imagine sticker-patrol is taken as a joke. 

Stopping this?  Maybe these were professionally done in the beginning, but you can make the stupid stickers at home, and the prosecutor actions have just jacked up the intensity of the whole situation.