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Obvious car pool joke is obvious. A German motorcycle cop couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw a vehicle pass him as he was on patrol in the town of Blauenthal just south of Berlin. The convertible BMW contained four men, all of whom appeared to be frolicking in...
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There are some jobs where you know falling asleep on duty is a very dangerous thing. Taxi drivers should never fall asleep on the job nor should school bus drivers or police officers on a chase. However, it would seem relatively harmless for a banker to fall asleep for...
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It’s a tragedy in the world of modeling and perhaps one of the strangest twists in the reality TV world. Two contestants on Germany’s Next Top Model have head lice. The drama! Anna Maria, a 16-year old favored to win the season, was the first to be confirmed with...
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Five tons of Nutella, a popular (and delicious) chocolate and nut spread, were stolen from a commercial trailer in Germany over the week-end. The thieves lifted seven pallets of the delectable breakfast substance from the trailer which had been parked in an unused area of a train station north...
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The mayor of Triberg in the southwestern Black Forest region of Germany has been accused of sexism after the town designated two tricky parking spaces as “men only”. Gallus Strobel explained that the parking spaces in question were more difficult for female-gendered drivers because they required the driver to...
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At some point in time, every teen thinks their parents are embarrassing. But for one 15-year old, her embarrassment might linger more on shame especially considering it was publicly displayed on TV. The German teen was watching a show on the website of TV channel RTF. In it was...
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A while back, on an episode of everyone’s favorite show Top Gear, host Jeremy Clarkson proposed that no matter how good an speaking English they are, Germans still cannot pronounce the word squirrel properly. In fact after a short You Tube research, it appears that he might be right....
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It’s the stuff horror movies are made of. A German economist, traveling around the world in a yacht, maybe the victim of cannibals on the remote French Polynesian island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. When I say victim I unfortunately mean feast. Stefan Ramin, 40, was taking the...
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Germany’s Chaos Computer Club may have unearthed one of the biggest scandals in recent history. Apparently the Germans can legally wiretap their citizens under strict and extreme conditions, we’d like to suppose, conditions like a subpoena or court order. However since 2008, they have a law that allows the...
Obvious car pool joke is obvious. A German motorcycle cop couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw a vehicle pass him as he was on patrol in the town of Blauenthal just south of Berlin. The convertible BMW contained four men, all of whom appeared to be frolicking in...
It’s a tragedy in the world of modeling and perhaps one of the strangest twists in the reality TV world. Two contestants on Germany’s Next Top Model have head lice. The drama! Anna Maria, a 16-year old favored to win the season, was the first to be confirmed with...
Five tons of Nutella, a popular (and delicious) chocolate and nut spread, were stolen from a commercial trailer in Germany over the week-end. The thieves lifted seven pallets of the delectable breakfast substance from the trailer which had been parked in an unused area of a train station north...
At some point in time, every teen thinks their parents are embarrassing. But for one 15-year old, her embarrassment might linger more on shame especially considering it was publicly displayed on TV. The German teen was watching a show on the website of TV channel RTF. In it was...
A while back, on an episode of everyone’s favorite show Top Gear, host Jeremy Clarkson proposed that no matter how good an speaking English they are, Germans still cannot pronounce the word squirrel properly. In fact after a short You Tube research, it appears that he might be right....
It’s the stuff horror movies are made of. A German economist, traveling around the world in a yacht, maybe the victim of cannibals on the remote French Polynesian island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. When I say victim I unfortunately mean feast. Stefan Ramin, 40, was taking the...
Germany’s Chaos Computer Club may have unearthed one of the biggest scandals in recent history. Apparently the Germans can legally wiretap their citizens under strict and extreme conditions, we’d like to suppose, conditions like a subpoena or court order. However since 2008, they have a law that allows the...