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France braces for annual New Year's car torchings
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | December 31, 2010 | Thierry Leveque and Nick Vinocur

Posted on 12/31/2010 9:12:04 AM PST by Beaten Valve

France will deploy extra police and keep vandalism statistics under wraps on New Year's Eve to fight what authorities say has become an annual "sweepstakes" of disaffected youths competing to see who can burn the most cars.

Youths in depressed suburbs of French cities have been torching hundreds of vehicles on New Year's Eve and Bastille Day since the early 1990s. Police say the annual rite has turned competitive, with youths tracking the news in the first days of the new year to see which neighborhood did the most damage.

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KEYWORDS: france; happynewyear; muslims
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To: Beaten Valve

Kick the disaffected youth out of the country! They obviously don’t want to fit in a civilized country.


21 posted on 12/31/2010 9:53:42 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
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To: Da Coyote
We're just bracing for their celebratory gunfire in about three hours.

If that's all they do, we're pretty OK with that.

When they send bigger stuff in to our bases, it becomes a nuisance.

22 posted on 12/31/2010 9:58:15 AM PST by Allegra (You're a towel.)
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To: Allegra
We're just bracing for their celebratory gunfire in about three hours.

I'm confused.

Are you in France or Detroit?

Whicheveer it is, I hope that you'll be staying indoors...

23 posted on 12/31/2010 10:05:56 AM PST by Beaten Valve
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To: Beaten Valve

Isn’t that special.....


24 posted on 12/31/2010 10:07:22 AM PST by Mygirlsmom (..there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.)
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To: Beaten Valve
Are you in France or Detroit?

Baghdad.

Whicheveer it is, I hope that you'll be staying indoors...

Absolutely.

25 posted on 12/31/2010 10:10:31 AM PST by Allegra (You're a towel.)
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To: luv2ndamend

Your post 10 just defined why America won’t ever see such car burnings.


26 posted on 12/31/2010 10:13:16 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: LouD

“On the other hand, have you ever driven a Peugeot or a Citroen? Torching them might have been a public service.”

You are so right. Therefore, please have all Citroen DS-19 vehicles sent to me for safe disposal, convertibles first.

;-)


27 posted on 12/31/2010 10:15:21 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: MediaMole

They’re pretty good cars now, great engines. Everybody world wide has the same computer driven tools, methods, controls. Defect rates from the smallest component to sub and full assemblies are minimal, and carefully tracked. Cars are commodities now, like detergent. New cars are pretty much for establishing/maintaining brand identity, much like this years new sneakers.


28 posted on 12/31/2010 10:20:56 AM PST by Leisler (They always lie, and have for so much and for so long, that they no longer know what about.)
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To: Truth29
Arsonists and looters,car thieves, home invaders, rapists, molesters, muggers, car jackers should be shot.

(fixed it)

29 posted on 12/31/2010 10:23:26 AM PST by Leisler (They always lie, and have for so much and for so long, that they no longer know what about.)
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To: Beaten Valve

To these “disaffected youths” competing to see who can live in more squalid, disgusting conditions is a good thing. Truly insane.


30 posted on 12/31/2010 10:23:47 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (The more the plans fail the more the planners plan - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Beaten Valve

Auto Flambe.


31 posted on 12/31/2010 10:26:44 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Beaten Valve

Ah, yes, a nip of chardonnay by the flickering fire of a burning Renault. How French. How romantic....


32 posted on 12/31/2010 11:37:03 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: Beaten Valve

Unless I’m mistaken they mostly burn cars in their own neighborhoods - i.e. the cars of their muslim brethren.

Insurance companies should just stop payments for such arson. The ‘youths’ would experience some industrial-strength sharia payback right quick.


33 posted on 12/31/2010 11:39:34 AM PST by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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