Friday, June 27, 2008
The view from my window: Beemer, Beemer, burning bright
I am in Frankfurt at the Hotel Hessischer Hof, and awoke this morning to a cacaphony of German sirens -- *ee-or*, *ee-or* -- outside my window. Turned out that it was not a terrorist attack, but a BMW burning ferociously on the park-like median strip of the road past the hotel:
[UPDATE: News coverage here and here, without my excellent photographs (which I hereby license to any news organization that provides a link back to this post)! Some guy burned his own car to protest high gasoline prices.]
There was no person evident who appeared to be the driver, which may mean that there was some poor soul still inside that hell. Or that the car burst into flame or was torched having already been abandoned. Either way, a sorry fate for a very nice car.
9 Comments:
By 
, at
Fri Jun 27, 06:36:00 AM:
By 
Purple Avenger, at
Fri Jun 27, 06:42:00 AM:
By Georg Felis, at
Fri Jun 27, 10:05:00 AM:
By , at
Fri Jun 27, 10:53:00 AM:
CNN scooped by Tigerhawk. Owner torched
Beemer, couldn't afford fuel prices!
By Noocyte, at
Fri Jun 27, 12:08:00 PM:
Were you momentarily under the impression that you had woken up in Paris?
[No one was apparently hurt, so I feel entitled to make this joke] Ich...bin...ein...Frankfurter!!
By , at
Fri Jun 27, 01:50:00 PM:
Typical American, yelping about high gas prices. We need to get in step with the Frankfurters!
By , at
Fri Jun 27, 10:36:00 PM:
So, what's the price of gas in Germany?
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Sat Jun 28, 11:10:00 AM:
I think his actions are the rough equivalent of Democratic Party proposals.
By , at
Mon Jul 14, 06:36:00 AM:
