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7 dead 16 wounded at attack on Dutch queensday.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on May 07, 2009, 06:37:52 pm ---Any more news on the clown that did this?
All we've heard on our end was the guy gets arrested tells the interrogator that he was working alone, then dies.
Not that I see anything wrong with that, but did he tell the interrogators anything else before his unfortunate death?
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No nothing new really. The police is trying to figure it all out still. For instance, they are working on a simulation to see if a tiny car like that could actually have seriously damaged the open bus the royals were in. They are also trying to find out how the car actually made it through 2 perimeters without being detected and/or stopped. Maybe the fact that one of the dead people was a security guard has something to do with that though. They were looking for footage of the car before it went through. Obviously everybody had their camera pointed at the royal family as they were just passing, so I doubt they will find much footage before it ran the security.
The news media have been interviewing the friends and parents of the "clown". Turns out he was a security guard and he got fired and lost his house because of that. A friend claims he might have been out to show that the security company sucks. The same company that fired him was working on security during the event.
shmokes:
LMAO . . . what in god's name? You people do realize that Obama does more than sign legislation into law. There's this . . . um . . . entire branch of government called the executive that he is in charge of. In includes such trivialities as the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA. He is also in charge of foreign policy, so he negotiates and signs treaties, which become supreme law of the land, trumping state law. How about the FCC. The FDA. The EPA. Patrick, are you really suggesting with a straight face that Obama and your Queen have similar levels of duties or responsibilities?
Anyway, stop being a baby. I said having powerless royalty out of tradition is stupid, I didn't say you were stupid. No need to get your panties in a twist. If it makes you feel any better, I think that the electoral college in the US is a ridiculous relic of the past. Much like your retarded royalty. This isn't about America being better than you. It's about royalty being retarded. It is.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 06, 2009, 03:47:42 pm ---It's funny you should say that. I had a dream last night in which I went back in time and I was hanging out with Hitler. It was weird cos I knew who he was, but I wasn't really bothered by him or anything. Anyway, we were in this building that was like a school or something and went into a room where at one point Hitler saw a spider and got really squeamish. He's totally an arachniphobe apparently. So the spider went behind this board leaning against the wall and someone pulled it out and was like, "No wonder there's spiders in here, look at all these slugs!" (apparently where slugs go, so do spiders). There were a bunch of gross slugs back there, except they were more like something you might see in an episode of Star Trek: TNG. So I tried to step on the spider, but it moved really fast. Then the spider exhibited a really interesting ability. At the end of each leg it had like three digits that could stretch out to about a foot long (it looked a lot like the way Venom's suit streams out to act like spiderweb). So this spider started sending out all these tenticle-looking things that would stick to like three things at a time and it was moving around. So my cat tried to get the spider and the spider was totally blocking my cats advances and pounces with these cool tenticle things. Then I woke up. For about a minute I was thinking about how cool the spider was before it occurred to me that those spiders don't really exist and that it was just a dream. Then I remembered Hitler and went back to sleep.
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You know shmokes, you need, to put more commas, into your post, as I had a real problem, reading that whole useless post, about you and some unfortunate relic of the past.
Without sounding insensitive, why are we discussing something that is so old news? The driver is dead, and Queen Betrice won't be allowed to ride her bike downtown anymore. Its a sad thing to hear about the victims.... Life goes on. I think of Iraqis, Afghans and the Palestinians who are killed every day, sometimes quite horrifically. And I see this thread banging about something that really pales in significance.
I like butterball turkey, with cranberry sauce, but I find it is real difficult to buy whole turkeys during the summer. With all those frozen turkeys at Christmas, you would think they would keep some for July. BBQ turkey sounds nice to have on the 4th. Has anyone tried turkey burgers?
The royal family in the UK can in theory retake Britain by disbanding the British Government. The Queen has a lot of influence in world affairs, much more than a puppet monarchy.
Its apples and oranges to compare a President with a hereditary monarchy.
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 07, 2009, 07:20:37 pm ---LMAO . . . what in god's name? You people do realize that Obama does more than sign legislation into law. There's this . . . um . . . entire branch of government called the executive that he is in charge of. In includes such trivialities as the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA. He is also in charge of foreign policy, so he negotiates and signs treaties, which become supreme law of the land, trumping state law. How about the FCC. The FDA. The EPA. Patrick, are you really suggesting with a straight face that Obama and your Queen have similar levels of duties or responsibilities?
Anyway, stop being a baby. I said having powerless royalty out of tradition is stupid, I didn't say you were stupid. No need to get your panties in a twist. If it makes you feel any better, I think that the electoral college in the US is a ridiculous relic of the past. Much like your retarded royalty. This isn't about America being better than you. It's about royalty being retarded. It is.
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I think Shmokes needs to take a nap. ::)
Edit: Not enough commas.
Dartful Dodger:
I think that makes the whole thing suck even more. If people were out to harm the royal family it would make sense to cancel or modify the event. But now the parade will probably be changed forever because some nut, who was too unstable to be a guard, lashed out at his former employer.
When someone tried to assassinate the pope they built the domed pope mobile, which I think added character to his appearances, hopefully this tragic event will lead to a positive evolutionary step in queen's day for your country. It would suck to let that clown destroy a national tradition.
They should stop interviewing his friends and family and just let his name and everything about him fade away as though he never existed.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 07, 2009, 07:20:37 pm --- I said having powerless royalty out of tradition is stupid, I didn't say you were stupid.
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<Homer>Lisa, get a grip! I didn't say you were stupid! I just said everything you love is stupid!</Homer>
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