Sunday, July 23, 2006
AmCop auf Deutsch!
Police in Germany are hunting pranksters who have been sticking miniature flag portraits of George W. Bush into piles of dog poo in public parks.
"This has been going on for about a year now, and there must be 2,000 to 3,000 piles of excrement that have been claimed during that time," said Josef Oettl, parks administrator for Bayreuth.
The series of incidents was originally thought to be some sort of protest against the US-led invasion of Iraq. But then when it continued, it was thought to be a protest against George W. Bush's campaign for re-election. But it is still going on and the police say they are completely baffled as to who is to blame.
"We have sent out extra patrols to try to catch whoever is doing this in the act," said police spokesman Reiner Kuechler. "But frankly, we don't know what we would do if we caught them red handed."
Legal experts say there is no law against using feces as a flag stand and the federal constitution is vague on the issue.
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This presents an opportunity for an interesting thought experiment:
What would civic life be like in a country whose constitution wasn't vague on the issue of using feces as a flag stand?
posted by Scats : 7/23/2006 03:42:00 PM
