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posted by janrinok on Tuesday February 25 2020, @02:34PM   Printer-friendly

Found in The Local.de:

Several people were injured Monday when a car drove into a carnival procession in the central German town of Volkmarsen, police said. "There are dozens of injured, including some who are gravely hurt," a spokeswoman for Volkmarsen police told AFP.

Speaking to DPA news agency, a police spokesman added that children were among the injured. The driver has been arrested.

Germany is on high alert following a shooting spree by a far-right gunman in the city of Hanau, also in Hesse, last Wednesday, that left 10 people dead.

Monday's incident took place as residents in many parts of the country celebrate Rose Monday, a highlight of annual carnival festivities that sees adults and children alike dress up and attend parades where people play music and throw candies from floats.

According to the Daily Mail

Police in Germany have tonight searched the home of a driver who deliberately drove a car into crowds at a German Carnival parade on Monday afternoon.

Special police officers dressed in all black with protective gear were seen entering the property of the 29-year-old who has been arrested for attempted murder after he ploughed his Mercedes into the carnival crowd packed with children.

30 people were injured following the incident and forensic officers have now set up a cordon around the car, with pictures showing several officers examining the silver vehicle.

The driver, a 29-year-old German citizen, mounted the pavement in the town of Volkmarsen, 15 miles west of Kassel, around 2.30pm on Monday before ploughing into families that had turned out for the festivities.

Police arrested the driver at the scene. While officers could not disclose a motive for the attack, local media reported that investigators are working on the assumption that it was deliberate and that investigators were looking into all possibilities.

German police say he is being treated by doctors due to injuries he suffered in the incident, and prosecutors [say] he now faces charges of attempted homicide. Reports suggest he was from the local area and had no history of political extremism.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by ikanreed on Tuesday February 25 2020, @03:25PM (20 children)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 25 2020, @03:25PM (#962390) Journal

    Behold your terrible future [fastcompany.com]. There was exactly 1 motor vehicle death in Oslo in 2019 due to their car control laws.

    It's not as bad as you think, private cars are a plague on society, and only made any kind of sense when not everyone had them(or you're way out in the country, not pretending that's not a thing). For example, the average american restaurant has 3x as much space devoted to parking as eating.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @03:50PM (13 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @03:50PM (#962402)

    Americans waste lots of stuff, we should all live in tiny tubes like in Asia and eat insects like the desert dwellers. There is no need for more to fulfill our physiological needs.

    • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday February 25 2020, @03:52PM (12 children)

      by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 25 2020, @03:52PM (#962403) Journal

      Spending 1-2 hours a day in a metal tube waiting for the metal tube in front of you to move 6 inches: the very definition of freedom.

      • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:25PM (11 children)

        by mhajicek (51) on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:25PM (#962418)

        My commute is eight minutes.

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        • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:35PM (4 children)

          by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:35PM (#962423) Journal

          Great, thank you for the single contextless data point.

          The average is a half hour each way.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:42PM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:42PM (#962429)

            My commute is 1 second, just walk to the desk.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:51PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:51PM (#962515)

              Do not shit where you eat, is that not work where you sleep, or no play where you pray.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @02:22AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @02:22AM (#962682)

                The only praying I do involves git

          • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:53PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:53PM (#962437)

            This https://www.autoaccessoriesgarage.com/average-commute-times [autoaccessoriesgarage.com] guotes US Census at 26.2 minutes for the average. Also includes a heat map of USA times. The definition seems to be based on home->work, since some small bedroom communities are among the longest times--no business locally so nearly everyone has to commute. Didn't come across anything about work->home, which might look much different?

            The average might be useful to urban/highway planners? Anyone else??

            For everyone else, it's their personal commute time that counts. Mine happens to be seconds -- working at home, but don't have anything work related in my bedroom...

        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:54PM (5 children)

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:54PM (#962516) Journal

          My commute is ten minutes, with five traffic lights. Was three traffic lights until the skunks installed two more.

          I don't like work at home by glow of computer monitor. Office is brightly lit. That, and I don't want to have to deal with Windows PC ownership issues.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @08:11PM (4 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @08:11PM (#962525)

            So the average commute of soylentils is (10 + 8 + 1/60 + 3/60)/4 = 4.5 minutes

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @08:20PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @08:20PM (#962529)

              If: smart = less commute time
              Then: SN'ls = smarter than average by ~5x

            • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday February 26 2020, @05:42AM (2 children)

              by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 26 2020, @05:42AM (#962734) Journal
              Let me add another contextless data point. Two minute commute over here and I don't need a car.
              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @07:04AM (1 child)

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @07:04AM (#962752)

                Two minute commute over here and I don't need a car.

                But that is because you do not have a job, khallow! We all know that Yellowstone shuts down in the Winter, more or less, so you are now off-season? Commuting to the Commode? Typical khallow bad faith and flatulence.

                • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday February 26 2020, @02:47PM

                  by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 26 2020, @02:47PM (#962856) Journal

                  We all know that Yellowstone shuts down in the Winter, more or less, so you are now off-season?

                  A couple of hotels still operate in the park during winter. The Park get about 10% of the visitation during winter that they get during the rest of the year. And there's construction delays on the route I take to work, go figure. Winter doesn't respect plumbing.

  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Bot on Tuesday February 25 2020, @06:44PM (4 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday February 25 2020, @06:44PM (#962479) Journal

    >There was exactly 1 motor vehicle death in Oslo in 2019 due to their car control laws.

    They also have low crime due to their immigration control laws, so maybe when you apply control in a rational way, instead of controlling the reaction to imposed chaos, things might work.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/norway-is-hard-on-migrants-but-tough-love-works/ [spectator.co.uk]

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    • (Score: 5, Informative) by ikanreed on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:29PM (3 children)

      by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:29PM (#962507) Journal

      That article says... absolutely nothing meaningful in support of your argument. Like nothing all. The word "crime" comes up exactly once, and it's someone vaguely gesturing at the idea of crime rates having some relationship to immigration without any supporting information. At all. None.

      The person they quote there in that no supporting evidence article, Sylvi Listhaug, was forced to resign for accidentally publicly posting insane racist conspiracy theories about immigrants on facebook.

      And if we want to look at actual data, Greece took in about 1% of their population in the "migration crisis" and their crime rate went down, but Norway refused and theirs stayed the same*. Poland took the most immigrants per capita and their homocide rate halved. Hungary instituted the most horrendously violent and psychopathic "immigration control" measures this side of Australia, and their homocide rate doubled*. There's no coherent truth to the immigration scaremongering. It's meaningless garbage from a far right party's racist spokeswoman to your dumb, credulous ears.

      *Unlike you, I'm not making the case that these data actually mean anything(besides you being a shithead), because I don't believe in cherrypicking.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @10:52PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @10:52PM (#962592)

        I wish you had linked to sources for your data because I would really like to use it myself in the future, but as an internet rando myself nobody is going to take me seriously without proof.

        • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday February 26 2020, @12:00AM

          by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 26 2020, @12:00AM (#962615) Journal

          It was just homocide by country and decade from wikipedia.

      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday February 26 2020, @11:04AM

        by Bot (3902) on Wednesday February 26 2020, @11:04AM (#962793) Journal

        Poland?

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @12:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @12:31AM (#962625)

    What a racist solution, you know Niggers cannot buy nor take care of bikes properly, this only benefits Whites and their racist allies, like the White-adjecent Asians.