Radio News

No, not a Woody Allen take off, but this evening some radio new items caught my attention. Dont forget this is Berlin 25/10/2010:-

1. the fitting of special compound Winter tires is to be made compulsory. Well of course only via the back door, just like driving in excess of 200km/h on open speed limit motorways in not illegal should you be involved in an accident there are no questions asked - your automatically at fault. This is also true of any motor accident where you have the least ml of alcohol in your blood - this i can understand, although the double standard is that its not illegal to drive with the alcohol of one beer or one glass of wine - just dont have an accident.
Im sure I dont need to point out the inconsistency regarding the speed factor.
So, you can drive over snow and ice, and should the police stop you for any reason, not having snow-tires is not a punishable offense. Just dont have an accident! So, called 'all-wheather tires' are no excuse.
Wasn't there a principle that the Law should not be an ass! Or was it that the law should not be 'seen' to be an ass, and can hide its ineptitude with impunity?

2. dog bites man - I really had to stop to check I heard correctly. Berlin has a 3.5million population, and....was it a slow news night!
Man bites dog! Man bites postbox! Alien bites postbox! Postbox bites Alien!

3. This one really got me, the Potsdamm high court found a man innocent of attempted murder because he only wanted to frighten his wife!!!
I dont think we really need to go into how ludicrous that is, but as i remember that particular Court has a history of strange descions. Like 4 skin-heads (here a synonim for neo-nazies) beat a black guy to death at a bus stop and were given Community Service Sentances! and....

4. not from the radio, but a letter direct from the court on saturday morning - the divorse court wants to inform the new address of your ex-wife. (???) I re-read this 2-line letter 5 times to search for the punch line, but that really was it. She has been living there 7 years, we have been officially divorced 8 years! I phoned her to ask if she was planning to sue me for something, no. Was some clerk in the court just a little bit bored?

salute,
brethren