Saturday, April 20, 2024

Two Odd German Things

 1.  I noticed yesterday....Munich city gov't has said now.....come Oktoberfest....there will not be a tent or acceptance of cannabis on the fair-grounds.  

Number of folks had asked about this, and I got the impression that several organizations wanted a cannabis-fest tent operation.  

End of the story?  Well....I would imagine some groups are approaching local towns around Munich about allowing them to have a hooka/cannabis fest-tent operation.  But I don't expect anyone there to approve of this.

2.  WELT (the paper) had an unusual article over criminals in Germany.  There's a PhD guy who has studied criminal behavior and come to a conclusion.  If you have a criminal background, with a IQ level below 70....prison is not the right place to send you.

His suggestion?  This group ought to be put in a mental institute....not a prison.  

I sat and read through a lot of reports having nothing to do with this idea.  Brit report from a decade ago....says (at least from a UK prospective)....that 7-percent of their criminal population have a below 70 on the IQ.  But the same report said that between 70 and 79 IQ levels....it's almost a quarter of their population who have marginal intelligence.  

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