First topic? There is a new draft of the German Federal Forest Act, which goes to discuss the use of mountain bikes and how you might use them in a public forest.
So the act stipulates that bike use in a public woods....SHOULD only be permitted on roads, trails and suitable paths.
This has gotten the mountain biker folks fairly peeved because a fair portion of where they might hang out....isn't really a suitable or approved path.
The old Act? Well...it's been around 50 years and back in that period....no one worried about the bike trails.
What's likely to happen? A whole bunch of signs will likely go up....to note approved trails, and then some kind of forest police patrol will start up....to arrest or detain the bad boys on the unapproved trails.
Second topic? The long investigation over the July 2021 Ahr Valley flood which killed around 135-odd people? It's come out this week that back in 2016....the Bundeswehr (the German Army) participated in a regional exercise that talked about the handling of emergencies in the region.
So a Bundeswehr officer wrote a heavily critical paper...saying the locals in the ahr Valley weren't prepared for a true emergency.
Then the Bundeswehr....the headquarters itself....looked over the text and said....'it's not your job to correct them'. So the text was dropped from the report.
No one will be punished over this, but it just lays down more bitterness on how the deaths were unnecessary.
2 comments:
I don't mind the banning of the mountain bikes from the forest paths. Half of them fly down stairways like absolute retards with no ability to stop and it's up to everyone to frantically get out of the way.
I have particular forest trails that I like to walk on (within 20 min of the house). The negative is that they criss-cross where the mountain bikers ride through. So you have to pay attention at several points.
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