Josef Fritzl had held his daughter locked up in a basement for 24 years. And he is the father of her six surviving children, as one baby boy died shortly after birth. Fritzel admitted the charges yesterday.
Common sense interpretation? Abuse, rape, incest … multiple occurrences of all of the aforementioned crimes. — Life sentence.
Oh, wait. [...]
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Posted in Language, Travel on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
The Denik chain of affiliate newspapers conducted a nationwide test of patrol cops and cops-on-duty on several precincts. The journalists pretended to be foreigners who were robbed or who had a similar problem.
And the result?
In most cases the reaction to Is there anyone who speaks English? or to a more complicated sentences was - big surprise [...]
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Posted in Sports, tagged NHL, Rangers, Tampa Bay on April 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
New York Rangers will play against Tampa Bay Lightning in Prague in October. The teams should play two matches: on October 4 and October 5.
The tickets are on sale and the cheapest ones are almost sold out. After a few hours…
Gotta say, they seem extremely expensive. The cheapest seats, which I believe is somewhere under [...]
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Posted in Law, Life, tagged crime, teen pregnancy on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Strange things don’t happen only in Austria [the Natascha Kampusch story].
A thirteen year-old girl from the town of Vyskov is pregnant with her female classmate’s father. The police are investigating the issue as rape and child abuse. That would be bad enough as such, but…
… the class teacher held a special PTA meeting at which [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
I wrote two posts two hours ago that would not display here and I have no idea why. I am working on it. Thanks for your patience….
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Posted in Politics on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
A document is considered to have been delivered as soon as an MP receives it on his or her desk, says an obsolete rule the result of which is that all Czech MP’s shall receive all documents the deputies are about to deal with, iDNES news server wrote.
However many MP’s admit they don’t even read [...]
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Posted in Eh, Czechs, Travel on April 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This has to be the stupidest tourism-related offer I have seen in years.
Czechs who go on holidays to Croatia with the CKVT travel agency can enjoy the company of Czech actors, stand-up comedians, singers, etc. The noted personalities get their “holiday” more or less for free in exchange for their performance. The travel agency is advertising [...]
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Posted in Music on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
A nice sample of will-you-marry-me beautiful Slovak girls can be found in this videoclip of dance band named Maduar who became famous, among other hits, for doing a cover version of Afric Simone’s Hafanana.
A lot of bikini action, so enjoy — before I bring some serious, quality-press news.
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Posted in Media on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
TV Nova news anchor Reynolds Koranteng who lied about having graduated from high school was in the chair today for the five o’clock news.
In reaction to the discovery of the scandal, the station’s news director Martin Ondracek said to the Blesk daily that Koranteng might face sanctions.
In professional news business, sanctions means you are pulled off [...]
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Posted in Brno, Nature, Travel, tagged animals, museum on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
If you are a fan of bizarre things, you should see what the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno has on display. Its Institute of Pathological Morphology has a small museum in which you can see stuffed cows with two heads or six legs. There are sheep with four normal legs and a fifth leg [...]
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