Today as I struggled through traffic to make my way to work, 44 KM that takes now over an hour due to construction projects, I was doing my best to maintain calm (meditating in traffic) when I saw a billboard with a distinctly recognizable pictures of the concentration camp we know best.
I felt so out of touch when I told my colleagues, "HEY! They're giving 25,000Euros to anyone who can identify any holocaust perpetrators!"
They rolled their eyes at me.
I guess I knew, but I was surprised to see a new cause to catch people in their 90s who were in any way connected to the oppression/killings.
I thought maybe any readers in America might find it interesting as well, that WW2 is not officially over, in the minds of many people. And we still have to wait in backed up traffic whenever they find another bomb to disarm. I wonder when they will find the last bomb?
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Today in that same awful traffic alongside a streetcar track (that always makes me nervous - sharing the road with streetcars).
I stopped next to a station and saw the digital display, "Please be aware that starting on 1.9, (Sept 1st) there will be no alcohol allowed in Cologne's public transportation system - busses, trains, and streetcars."
I was like "Wow! I wonder if anything will change at all! Hoodlums love their beers in streetcars!"
Sort of like in May, when this state said that smoking in restaurants is no longer allowed. (FINALLY). Except that now we have bars/clubs all over Cologne putting up signs " Private Party Only" to loophole the law. Come on guys, get it together. Enforce your laws.
I dream of a day when littering and leaving dog poop on the sidewalk are also punative events.
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2 comments:
In 1919, it was against the law in Seattle to spit on the sidewalk.
err, also to appear in public without a 6-ply gauze mask.
Spanish flu, ya know.
As far as I know, they never repealed the bit about spitting :-)
I take 2 of my dogs with me when I go to Dallas to visit my mother. They are country dogs and pee and poop outside on their own. They are good about going on the leash when we are in Dallas. However, I am supposed to take a poop bag with me because one is supposed to pick up after one's dog, or risk a $500 fine! Mu sister said if people see what house you go into, they can still report you. This makes me so nervous, as I didn't know it at first. I felt guilty about my dogs going because all the lawns are so nice. I imagined all kinds of security cameras, people peeking out their windows, but that hasn't been the case. They take dog shit seriously in Dallas.
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