Wednesday, June 08, 2005

All the news that's fit to be regurgitated

I am back. I came across another story that just floored me. Here it is.

Woman lays waste to property with 43 goats
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman living with 43 goats was evicted from her rented house after the animals left "knee-high" piles of droppings around the garden and laid waste to the building's interior, authorities said Tuesday.
A court in the southwestern town of Saarburg said the woman had been forced out because she was behind on her rent and had allowed the condition of the house to deteriorate to such an extent that it may have to be torn down.
"The goats' droppings were basically piled up knee-high around the garden, and inside the house everything was chewed up. And it stank," said court spokesman Manfred Grueter.
"It was total chaos," he added. "It's pretty doubtful as to whether the place can still be lived in."
The woman, a freelance artist in her early forties, had resisted eviction on the grounds her life with the goats had been used to create a "social sculpture" inspired by the German sculptor Joseph Beuys.


Well, well, well! What to conclude. What is it with the Germans? Is cannibalism there not enough? I always thought the lady with all those cats was crazy, this just adds a whole new dimension to that insanity. Again, cats and goats are agents of the devil, so......

I do like the "art" rationalization. Of course, using that definition or line of reasoning, I am making art each time I take (or is that leave) a dump. Wow, somebody call my mother and tell her that he little boy is an artist (or is that artiste).

Where do these people come from (Germany obviously)?

There was a story in China, Shanghai to be exact, where an online gamer (not flamer, you sick people) stabbed a competitor to death for selling his cyber-sword and was given a suspended death sentence. Now apparently this means a life sentence but in the English language I would say that a suspended death sentence is death by hanging. I was really hoping for a good old fashion state sanctioned geek lynching but that is just not going to happen. Too bad. Perhaps they can find some way to blame that on the Japanese and start some more riots. Only in Asia.

Party on all and ciao for today.

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