1. Fireworks are cleared to sell....starting Thursday AM, and ending Saturday. By the law, in Germany, you are supposed to use them up by early AM on 1 Jan 2024. Various cities have bans on where you can use them....so make sure you read the rules.
2. Flood situation in northern Germany is tense, and likely to remain that way through Saturday.
3. A new federal election law is in place....where it's iron-clad that you (as a party) must achieve 5-percent or more in the federal election, or get no seats. The CSU Party (Bavarian conservatives) are attempting to take this to court. In theory, since they are outside of the CDU Party....in a normal election, it would be hard for them to get a national five-percent situation, but they would get around 40-percent of the Bavarian vote.
If they were to fall out? Well....the CDU Party alone....would be in a pitiful way to 'win' or lead in a coalition.
It is conceivable that 3 parties would be out (Linke Party, FDP, and CSU Party). In this scenario, with the thirty-odd minor parties....almost 20-percent of voters would get no real representation with their votes in the mix.
4. Unusual lottery story from Magdeburg....some gal had pulled a winner (for 100,000 Euro) back on 27 Feb 2021. She only recently turned the ticket in. Reason for holding out? It has not been published or understood.
I would imagine that she might have a failed marriage in the mix and didn't want to share the winnings.
5. Last Friday night, in my home-town of Wiesbaden...as darkness fell....some guy called the cops. Report? Well....over in the south-end (near the river, Biebrich neighborhood)....this guy swears up and down that he saw a wolf.
Desk Sergeant believes the guy enough....to send out a patrol (2 guys).
I'm guessing while leaving the station....they discuss this matter at length. They'd rather not shoot the wolf because you'd get a full-up investigation and probably some nickname. I suspect that they just wanted to show up....make a circle, and leave without seeing the wolf.
So, they get to the Biebrch train station area, and note some creature with the appearance of a wolf. They stop....view the animal under the streetlights, and cast a beam toward it. Oddly, you'd expect a wolf to react and retreat......this creature approaches.
Then they identify him....Husky. Friendly Husky. Has a name/owner tag. They call the guy up....yep, he'd been walking the dog and he ran off.
So we safely made it through another year without a true wolf report in our fair city.
6. Odd story comes up over some Syrian folks living in Germany. This group lives over in the Saxony area and came into Germany back around 2016. They had become somewhat 'Germanized' and had taken up the habit of volksmarching or long hikes.
In the past month, this group (now a club) were on some hike and cops had been called on them....reporting them as a migrant entry folks. They proved their status and complained to some degree of the incident.
To be honest, Saxony is located to the far east of Germany....up against the Czech border. If you surveyed locals....there is a fair amount of negativity about the migrant situation (more so than in the western states of Germany).
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