1. Cool trend? Well....the past 2 weeks have been exceptionally cool (last night, low of 12 C/54 F). Drought continues? Yes....virtually all of the yard is dead now.
2. Fake suicide? The Stade-shooter (shoot dead six social service personnel, about a month ago).....is dead by suicide.
But there is this 'catch'. For the 4 weeks of jail-time....he continually gave this happy-feeling/positive-thoughts....faking the guards out. In the suicide note, he brags of this in some way.
3. Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the Munich shooting.
Background? This was a mass shooting.....classified as a right-wing extremist attack.....occurring in the vicinity of the Olympia shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany.
The guy involved? A 18-year-old Iranian-German David Sonboly. He opened fire on teenagers with migrant background at a McDonald's restaurant. Thirty-six wounded....nine dead.
So they held a ceremony.....President of Germany gave a speech.
I paused over this. Shooter was a gamer. In the 3 years prior to the shooting....he had received psychiatric treatment for depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In 2015 he spent two months as an inpatient in a mental care facility,
Police noted in the after-action report....the shooter was socially isolated, had endured years of bullying (including physical abuse) at school—mostly by classmates from immigrant backgrounds.
None of this mental issue stuff was mentioned yesterday....just that he was a right-wing nutcase....over and over.
Footnote: if you take the statistical average....Germany has 280,000 paranoid schizophrenic folks walking around....waiting for some 'trigger'. If you were walking for an hour in Mainz....you probably passed by a dozen folks who were potentially a 'loose-canon'.
4. About 30 years ago....folks in Bonn had this idea of bringing the S13 S-Bahn train line to the Koln Airport. It was almost to the last stage....when this week....they woke up and realized that a bridge was required.
Planners now say....it'll be 2040....before S13 is finished.
5. HR ran a terrific documentary piece last night....'Dirty Money'...talking over money-laundering in Germany. The experts say....nearly 100 billion Euro is washed yearly in Germany.
The more interesting suggestion....there are hotels in Germany....faked-up....noting ghost-guests....paying in cash....but the hotel is mostly empty. The registered guests....non-existent....simply washing the money as income.
6. Argument to some degree going on....who will enforce the NO-drinking rule in train stations (when it becomes effective). Police don't really want the job. Bahn-security is not manned to the degree to take on the job.
I'll predict....'bouncers' end up being hired at massive levels. Cost will be passed to railway riders.....figure 25-percent bump in ticket prices by 2030.
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