And they wonder why there are Polish jokes
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My poor father-in-law has the extreme misfortune of being Polish, and he (along with his wife) still live in Poland. It would appear that this year has not such a lucky one for him. Back in Jan. (or maybe a bit earlier), he was driving and came to a stop at a 4-way intersection. Out of nowhere a car came speeding down the street, followed by another, which ran into his *stopped* car, and hit the passenger side. My father-in-law was relatively un-harmed, and got out to see what the hell happened. He gets out of the car and is surrounded by police, with guns pointed at him, and told ot put his hands up! He looks around, see all the police are all rookies, and begins to yell at them, asking why are they pointing guns at him, when they totalled his car! Apparently that was enough to make the young guys calm down a bit, but they thought he was interfering in their chase - they were all part of some Polish anti-terrorist group, and supposedly were in a car chase when they hit my father-in-law's car. So my father-in-law gets home eventually, they get another car, and begin the insurance proceedings. They find out the police claim it was his fault. So now he has to go to court and needs a lawyer. He gets a lawyer, but then finds the case has been moved to "police" court, and all the pictures of the accident scene have disapeared. His lawyer doesn't know what to do. Now we hear that the police are suing them! (Or at least thats all I can make out above the shouting and yelling on this side of the phone). Has anyone has anything like this happen in the states? This just sounds completely bizarre! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! -- modified at 11:43 Sunday 11th September, 2005
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My poor father-in-law has the extreme misfortune of being Polish, and he (along with his wife) still live in Poland. It would appear that this year has not such a lucky one for him. Back in Jan. (or maybe a bit earlier), he was driving and came to a stop at a 4-way intersection. Out of nowhere a car came speeding down the street, followed by another, which ran into his *stopped* car, and hit the passenger side. My father-in-law was relatively un-harmed, and got out to see what the hell happened. He gets out of the car and is surrounded by police, with guns pointed at him, and told ot put his hands up! He looks around, see all the police are all rookies, and begins to yell at them, asking why are they pointing guns at him, when they totalled his car! Apparently that was enough to make the young guys calm down a bit, but they thought he was interfering in their chase - they were all part of some Polish anti-terrorist group, and supposedly were in a car chase when they hit my father-in-law's car. So my father-in-law gets home eventually, they get another car, and begin the insurance proceedings. They find out the police claim it was his fault. So now he has to go to court and needs a lawyer. He gets a lawyer, but then finds the case has been moved to "police" court, and all the pictures of the accident scene have disapeared. His lawyer doesn't know what to do. Now we hear that the police are suing them! (Or at least thats all I can make out above the shouting and yelling on this side of the phone). Has anyone has anything like this happen in the states? This just sounds completely bizarre! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! -- modified at 11:43 Sunday 11th September, 2005
Jim Crafton wrote: Has anyone has anything like this happen in the states? You mean, in essence, corrupt authority and incompetent beauracracy? All the time! :-D Marc My website Traceract Understanding Simple Data Binding Diary Of A CEO - Preface
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My poor father-in-law has the extreme misfortune of being Polish, and he (along with his wife) still live in Poland. It would appear that this year has not such a lucky one for him. Back in Jan. (or maybe a bit earlier), he was driving and came to a stop at a 4-way intersection. Out of nowhere a car came speeding down the street, followed by another, which ran into his *stopped* car, and hit the passenger side. My father-in-law was relatively un-harmed, and got out to see what the hell happened. He gets out of the car and is surrounded by police, with guns pointed at him, and told ot put his hands up! He looks around, see all the police are all rookies, and begins to yell at them, asking why are they pointing guns at him, when they totalled his car! Apparently that was enough to make the young guys calm down a bit, but they thought he was interfering in their chase - they were all part of some Polish anti-terrorist group, and supposedly were in a car chase when they hit my father-in-law's car. So my father-in-law gets home eventually, they get another car, and begin the insurance proceedings. They find out the police claim it was his fault. So now he has to go to court and needs a lawyer. He gets a lawyer, but then finds the case has been moved to "police" court, and all the pictures of the accident scene have disapeared. His lawyer doesn't know what to do. Now we hear that the police are suing them! (Or at least thats all I can make out above the shouting and yelling on this side of the phone). Has anyone has anything like this happen in the states? This just sounds completely bizarre! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! -- modified at 11:43 Sunday 11th September, 2005
That sounds utterly crazy. You know, it must be costing the polish authorities quite a bit of money to cover that up. I'm wondering if it would not have been cheaper just to buy your father-in-law a new car in the first place. Not that it helps now. But, I always have a camera with me in the car just in case I want to take my own pictures.
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My poor father-in-law has the extreme misfortune of being Polish, and he (along with his wife) still live in Poland. It would appear that this year has not such a lucky one for him. Back in Jan. (or maybe a bit earlier), he was driving and came to a stop at a 4-way intersection. Out of nowhere a car came speeding down the street, followed by another, which ran into his *stopped* car, and hit the passenger side. My father-in-law was relatively un-harmed, and got out to see what the hell happened. He gets out of the car and is surrounded by police, with guns pointed at him, and told ot put his hands up! He looks around, see all the police are all rookies, and begins to yell at them, asking why are they pointing guns at him, when they totalled his car! Apparently that was enough to make the young guys calm down a bit, but they thought he was interfering in their chase - they were all part of some Polish anti-terrorist group, and supposedly were in a car chase when they hit my father-in-law's car. So my father-in-law gets home eventually, they get another car, and begin the insurance proceedings. They find out the police claim it was his fault. So now he has to go to court and needs a lawyer. He gets a lawyer, but then finds the case has been moved to "police" court, and all the pictures of the accident scene have disapeared. His lawyer doesn't know what to do. Now we hear that the police are suing them! (Or at least thats all I can make out above the shouting and yelling on this side of the phone). Has anyone has anything like this happen in the states? This just sounds completely bizarre! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! -- modified at 11:43 Sunday 11th September, 2005
You could have stopped at "[insert ANY country here] anti-terrorist group" The rest was predictable ;) ;)
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My poor father-in-law has the extreme misfortune of being Polish, and he (along with his wife) still live in Poland. It would appear that this year has not such a lucky one for him. Back in Jan. (or maybe a bit earlier), he was driving and came to a stop at a 4-way intersection. Out of nowhere a car came speeding down the street, followed by another, which ran into his *stopped* car, and hit the passenger side. My father-in-law was relatively un-harmed, and got out to see what the hell happened. He gets out of the car and is surrounded by police, with guns pointed at him, and told ot put his hands up! He looks around, see all the police are all rookies, and begins to yell at them, asking why are they pointing guns at him, when they totalled his car! Apparently that was enough to make the young guys calm down a bit, but they thought he was interfering in their chase - they were all part of some Polish anti-terrorist group, and supposedly were in a car chase when they hit my father-in-law's car. So my father-in-law gets home eventually, they get another car, and begin the insurance proceedings. They find out the police claim it was his fault. So now he has to go to court and needs a lawyer. He gets a lawyer, but then finds the case has been moved to "police" court, and all the pictures of the accident scene have disapeared. His lawyer doesn't know what to do. Now we hear that the police are suing them! (Or at least thats all I can make out above the shouting and yelling on this side of the phone). Has anyone has anything like this happen in the states? This just sounds completely bizarre! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! -- modified at 11:43 Sunday 11th September, 2005
I've never heard of anything similar to that happening here. Though, I suppose it certainly could. No society is perfect.
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My poor father-in-law has the extreme misfortune of being Polish, and he (along with his wife) still live in Poland. It would appear that this year has not such a lucky one for him. Back in Jan. (or maybe a bit earlier), he was driving and came to a stop at a 4-way intersection. Out of nowhere a car came speeding down the street, followed by another, which ran into his *stopped* car, and hit the passenger side. My father-in-law was relatively un-harmed, and got out to see what the hell happened. He gets out of the car and is surrounded by police, with guns pointed at him, and told ot put his hands up! He looks around, see all the police are all rookies, and begins to yell at them, asking why are they pointing guns at him, when they totalled his car! Apparently that was enough to make the young guys calm down a bit, but they thought he was interfering in their chase - they were all part of some Polish anti-terrorist group, and supposedly were in a car chase when they hit my father-in-law's car. So my father-in-law gets home eventually, they get another car, and begin the insurance proceedings. They find out the police claim it was his fault. So now he has to go to court and needs a lawyer. He gets a lawyer, but then finds the case has been moved to "police" court, and all the pictures of the accident scene have disapeared. His lawyer doesn't know what to do. Now we hear that the police are suing them! (Or at least thats all I can make out above the shouting and yelling on this side of the phone). Has anyone has anything like this happen in the states? This just sounds completely bizarre! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! -- modified at 11:43 Sunday 11th September, 2005
Jim, "...the extreme misfortune of being Polish..." - I am Polish and I am proud of that. Don't you think you have gone too far this time? Correct me if I am wrong. If your father in law is Polish, then your wife is also Polish, at least in origins. Does she also think she has "the extreme misfortune of being Polish" ? Maybe some other guys here have the extreme misfortune of being: a. asian b. black c. australian d. etc. ? And going back to the beauracracy thing. Beauracracy is the same, all around the world. I am pretty sure that you could easily find out of similar or even worse situations that took place in more civilised and modern countries than mine.
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I've never heard of anything similar to that happening here. Though, I suppose it certainly could. No society is perfect.
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My poor father-in-law has the extreme misfortune of being Polish, and he (along with his wife) still live in Poland. It would appear that this year has not such a lucky one for him. Back in Jan. (or maybe a bit earlier), he was driving and came to a stop at a 4-way intersection. Out of nowhere a car came speeding down the street, followed by another, which ran into his *stopped* car, and hit the passenger side. My father-in-law was relatively un-harmed, and got out to see what the hell happened. He gets out of the car and is surrounded by police, with guns pointed at him, and told ot put his hands up! He looks around, see all the police are all rookies, and begins to yell at them, asking why are they pointing guns at him, when they totalled his car! Apparently that was enough to make the young guys calm down a bit, but they thought he was interfering in their chase - they were all part of some Polish anti-terrorist group, and supposedly were in a car chase when they hit my father-in-law's car. So my father-in-law gets home eventually, they get another car, and begin the insurance proceedings. They find out the police claim it was his fault. So now he has to go to court and needs a lawyer. He gets a lawyer, but then finds the case has been moved to "police" court, and all the pictures of the accident scene have disapeared. His lawyer doesn't know what to do. Now we hear that the police are suing them! (Or at least thats all I can make out above the shouting and yelling on this side of the phone). Has anyone has anything like this happen in the states? This just sounds completely bizarre! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! -- modified at 11:43 Sunday 11th September, 2005
Jim Crafton wrote: Has anyone has anything like this happen in the states? This just sounds completely bizarre! I guess you wouldn't even want to know what the police or other bureaucratic organisations can do, in the "states" of India. :) I guess, it's the same everywhere. Something like the "Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon[^]", except that it's true. :) [r a w] Little Johnny was a scientist. Little Johnny is no more. For what he thought was H2O, turned out to be H2SO4.
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Jim, "...the extreme misfortune of being Polish..." - I am Polish and I am proud of that. Don't you think you have gone too far this time? Correct me if I am wrong. If your father in law is Polish, then your wife is also Polish, at least in origins. Does she also think she has "the extreme misfortune of being Polish" ? Maybe some other guys here have the extreme misfortune of being: a. asian b. black c. australian d. etc. ? And going back to the beauracracy thing. Beauracracy is the same, all around the world. I am pretty sure that you could easily find out of similar or even worse situations that took place in more civilised and modern countries than mine.
Very well said. You got my 5. This is not a very good practice to generalize one incident to the whole society or whole nation. Cheerz, Aamir