I don’t typically picture the French as a violent people. Unwashed? perhaps! Cheese eating bags of flesh? Sure. But violent? I see the French as uninterested, detached, even arrogant.
But Violent? I don’t think so. Just ask anyone who experienced WWII and see if they call the French violent.
That’s why this story out of France is so incongrous with the perception of these people.
According to published reports, French citizens burned more than 1,100 cars this past New Year’s Eve. 1,100 cars! That is freakin insane!
Reuters News agency reports the culprits were mostly young and poor. Well of course they were. Rich Old Guys don’t ring in the new year burning automobiles!
I’m not sure if the vandals were young or poor, but I’m certain they had matches and lighters and a combustible sense of aggression.
And here’s a crazy stat, this New Year’s Eve debauchery of 1,137 cars burned fell short of the all time French record by 10 measley arson fires. DAMN. 10 MORE FIRES AND WE WOULD HAVE SET THE RECORD FOR INSIPID STUPIDITY.
Reuters reports that car burnings are regular occurrences despite the fact the Interior Ministry mobilized 45,000 police during the night. What are these genedarmes doing? Are they fornicating in a bread factory, sipping wine, and sniffing each other’s arm pits? Honestly, 45,000 cops should be able to keep car arsons to at least under a 1,000 don’t you think?
Can you imagine Americans burning 1,100 cars? Maybe the Detroit Pistons win the NBA championship and some idiots in Detroit Rock City set one, maybe two cars on fire, but 1,100?
We’re lazy ass Americans. We’ll warm our hands by the blazing fuel tank of a Ford Pinto as quickly as anyone, but eventually we’re going to quit to go to a bar and drink a Bud.
Why isn’t the government doing more to curtail car fires?
Because the Government is in FRANCE!!
Published reports indicate police detained 549 people New Year’s Eve, compared with 288 in 2009 New Year celebrations.
Well isn’t that special. You detained 549 people! How about preventing 1,100 cars from turning into metallic fire sticks.
How many cops would it take to prevent 1,100 cars from burning? A 100,000? A million? Who can say, after all the police are also French.
I don’t know about you, but I’ll take a droopy faced Dick Clark ringing in the New Year any day!
Give me a screechy voiced J-Lo and a manly Ryan Secrist and Hello baby New Year.
The French are crazy!