German cops from the Berlin reported a major 'blockage' on A100 leading into the city. Problem? Well...the 'Last Generation' kids....on an environmental 'surge' to save the world.
RBB did a decent reporting job..
I should note....again. It's not the first time this week.
Part of a bigger deal? There's another 'club' out there....same region...with the title of 'Save Food. Save Lives'. Their thing? They say there's too much waste with grocery stores (food going into the garbage) and they want more regulation (basically to punish the grocery stores.
In their case, they want a trend that very much looks like old DDR (former communist East Germany)....where you walked into a 50 by 100 ft grocery in your neighborhood and most of the vegetables/fruit offerings....were empty.
What the cops have come to realize....as they glean the various other stoppages on the streets/autobahns....it's generally the same crew each time. They grab them....detain them....gather personal data, and then released them to be brought into court months later.
Behavior by German motorists? Based video I've seen of the past couple of stoppages....patience has worn out. People are now getting out of their cars and actively dragging or scuffling with the 'kids'.
I would imagine that the police are warning the politicians and public prosecution folks.....this will get messy shortly unless some type of disciplinary action occurs.
All of this drawing attention and requiring a city hall discussion this afternoon (Thursday)? Yes. It's anyone's guess what will occur, but I suspect pressure is coming from the public and they want the 'kids' put on some lengthy 'bad-boy' time-out.
But I'll make this observation.....there's just a lot of intense talking going on, with social media interaction involved, and it's possible that you might have two or three thousand German kids on some radical path....capable of interfering with your everyday life.
The public new media has done a lot of attention on trash cans at grocery stores with spoiled vegetables/fruit, and out-of-date stuff. I'd say for the past two years....you get at least one full intense report each week....to generate some hype on your part.
Virtually all grocery stores in Germany....want to offer out-of-season fruit....shipped in from Peru, Ecuador, Egypt, Kenya and India. The problem is....once the truck picks it up from the warehouse in Germany, and the grocery kid puts it up....there's a clock ticking. In a number of cases....you've got three days of shelf life, and then it's showing some 'age' (to be dumped that evening).
If you asked me how much is dumped nightly? Just from my local grocery, there's probably a forty-gallon barrel of stuff that gets dumped (it's not even a large grocery).
The problem here, even if you listened to the kids or the news media....what would you end up with as a regulation? Higher cost/taxation on fruit/vegetables? Living a life like it was 1976 in old DDR (East Germany)? Some government audit guy hanging around at 8 PM to monitor trash flow? Grocery stores sneaking 200 pounds of bulk waste to a secret van each night....which drives over the Austrian/Dutch borders to dump garbage?
You just wonder where the blockage and the garbage kids will end up in three years.
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