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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.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday February 25 2020, @03:52PM (12 children)
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)
My commute is eight minutes.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:35PM (4 children)
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)
My commute is 1 second, just walk to the desk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:51PM (1 child)
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
The only praying I do involves git
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:53PM
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)
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.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @08:11PM (4 children)
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
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)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @07:04AM (1 child)
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
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.