Watch Out For Naked Girls In The Streets Of Brno

It seems like the nude-in-public soft erotica [depends on your definition] genre came to Brno. The Brnensky denik daily recently reported a girl was seen all over Brno shooting nude photos.

From what I saw, it must have been very early spring because the trees aren’t green at all.

As there are seven universities in this town, it is always full of drop-dead-gorgeous girls.

And as we have high 90’s now and the grass is green and all fountains running, there might be a follow-up. One person said in a certain discussion board that he knew the girl and that he would not be surprised.

BTW, according to law, “public indecency” means “to offend more than three people”. I wonder how the cops can determine that. Do they ask people around? Then they should ask them about their definition of “being offended”. I am sure, with all due respect to middle-aged and/or women, that the “we did not behave like that in 1950’s” or “she has a killer body and I am old and fat and saggy” should not qualify as “being offended”.

Posters In Downtown Brno: Fags, Go Away

Shocking posters can be found on several places in downtown Brno. They feature a slogan that says “Fags, go away” and a silhouettes of two men, one is standing and the other one is on the ground and being kicked by the first one.

The Brnensky denik daily reports that this drawing is borrowed from “white pride” campaigns.

This poster campaign is targeted against the Queer parade that is scheduled to take place in Brno on Saturday.

About four hundred people should march through downtown Brno. There have been “groups” that announced their intention to organize protest against this event but these protests were not permitted by the municipality.

Child Abuse And Sexual Torture Case Continues

CONTINUOUS UPDATE BELOW

This is an update to the worst case of child molestation in the history of this country, a story of two brothers whose mother, other close relatives and friends tortured them.

The court is in session today to hear important witnesses…

The proceeding is beginning to uncover what consequences some post-divorce arrangements – when it comes to custody of children – can have! Here is what the father of the two torture victims told the court:

The boys have never told me that they didn’t want to stay with their mom. They never told me that they had been at places where torture would take place. Which is why I am shocked this had taken place…

The boys’ grandmother who is charged with perjury in relation to this case also claims not having noticed anythning about the boys’ health condition that would suggest torture and abuse:

Boys will be boys. I often see them having scratches from falling while rollerskating. When the torture graduated I did not see them. My daughter told me that Doctor [the alleged mysterious manipulator] did not recommend that I see one of the boys.

UPDATE WEDNESDAY JUNE 25: Today the court heard witnesses who have had some contact with he persons involved, either with the boys (in a boyscout group) or with the adults (defendants and others). Mother of the 30-something woman Barbora Skrlova (the one who had impersonated a 13-year-old girl in this weird scenario) said her daugher has never told her of any abuse. Skrlova is also charged with child abuse claims to have been a victim of a S/M abuse as well…

UPDATE THURSDAY JUNE 26:

Today the court heard Ditta Pokorna, the director of the asylum facility for children to which the two boys were placed after they had been found by the police. She claims she saw some strange wounds on the boys’ bodies but they said: We were stung by many hornets but we can’t talk about it. Moreover, according to her schoolmates are now making fun of the boys by cutting out newspaper headlines about the trial and arranging them on a piece of paper like “ransom notes”, creating offensive sentences…

“We would like them to have a normal sibling relationship, but it is hard,” Pokorna said. “They have unadequate reactions to normal situations. For example, one of the boys all of a sudden broke a plate when we were in a restaurant. One day the two of them got in a really big fight. That’s when they told me more details about the torturing,” she said in court…

A key testimony came about an hour ago (10:30 a.m. CET):
Defense attorney: Did any of the boys tell you specifically that they had been tortured by their mother or aunt Katerina?
Pokorna: Yes. They said their mother would tie them up, but their aunt had been even more dominant, because she would give orders to her sister [the boys' mother] about how to torture the boys.

UPDATE JUNE 27:

Today the judge and the defendants, DA and attorneys watched the footage of the boys that was retrieved from the house where they had been held hostage. It was gross, one of the lawyers told journalists during a recess.

Also, the boys reportedly told the police that there might have been other children present during the torture practices!!!!!!!!

Details later tonight due to my work commitment…sorry.

University of New York In Prague Has A Big Mouth

All the respect that I used to have for University of New York in Prague [UNYP] is gone. I saw their ad in a newspaper. It is the same blue ad that you probably can see on the homepage [link above and screenshot below] and that includes the slogan:

Educating tomorrow’s leaders…

Considering the Czech tertiary education sector, I must say: What a load of crap.

UNYP started to offer its services in the Czech Republic ten years ago, i.e. in 1998, when most Czech public schools experienced what we might call an extreme overhang of demand ^{[not quite sure about this term]} and when getting into college or university was extremely tough.

It was also the time when it was very “popular” [please insert a truckload of sarcasm here] to have an MBA degree if you wanted to mean something in Czech top business. And so managers of leading Czech companies started to enroll and I am pretty sure that many of them had their tuition paid for by their employers because it was considered an investment into the company’s future.

In other words, you can not compare the quality of your alumni in a situation where the criteria for enrollment include the payment of tuition [i.e. You pay tuition and you are here] with those of public schools who had to pass extremely hard entrance exams that are taken by 5,000 people but only 200 can enroll as freshmen. UNYP is sending a signal that says: All you have to do is pay tuition and you are the future leader already.

So UNYP is not really educating tomorrow’s leaders. Well, maybe some of them who are eighteen now and who might become leaders when they graduate. Or it started now…

But for the last decade the school has rather been educating businessmen and wannabe-businessmen who wanted to climb their fake ladder of business circles’ respect by adding the three letters, MBA, behind their names. 

The UNYP management must know that academic titles have a great tradition in this country, when it comes to formal ways to address people in face-to-face communication. And so, whereas English speaking countries have the saying Money talks, Czechs have a similar one that would go Academic title talks.  

Tuesday: The Biggest Strike Since 1990

Dozens of thousands of people will join a strike Tuesday, one that is said to be the biggest one since 1990. People will protest against government economic/financial reforms. Most of them are union members working in the public sectors [jobs that are budget-dependant] who said their real wages decreased after the reforms, despite the government’s promises they they would not. So among the people protesting in the streets will be mostly teachers, healthcare employees, etc. – but also employees of big companies in which unions have strong positions…

It should be noted that among those who will join the strike are people who are just purely dissatisfied with their financial situation but they would not do a damn thing to improve it. There is a large percentage of Czech who think that it is the government’s job to make their life great.

Which of course brings us to the majority of Czechs who will be affected by the strike [e.g. because public transportation should not operate for one hour]: people who work in the private sector. If they are not satisfied with their salaries, they ask for a raise. If they don’t get it, they leave and find a better job. People in the public sector have used to the fact that everytime they want more, they yell and they threaten to strike.

The economic reform the Czech government is introducing are LIFE-SAVING. IF they are not done, the system will fall apart in the future because there won’t be enough money in the social and healthcare systems. People will yell about having to pay a one-off fee of CZK 30 (a little over 1 euro, or $2) in a doctor’s office, but they won’t change their unhealthy lifestyles…

It is a well-known fact that these protests have a huge political aspect, since the leader of the biggest trade union is a Czech SENATOR for social democrats!!!! He had been the leader before he ran for the office and he retained this position since…

Czechs who protest against the reforms are trying to say: I don’t give a fuck about the future generation, I care about myself.

Buy Today, Leave Tomorrow. Czechs On Holidays

If you are a no-strings-attached person like yours truly, you would enjoy a relatively new way of buying your summer holiday. I am sure it is not specific to the Czech Republic, but I am also sure that in some countries this way of vacationing is impossible, due to labor laws, lifestyle(s) etc.

It is called buy today, leave within 48 hours. Some travel agencies call it Click And Get Outta Here, which means if you buy it on-line you have a huge discount.

All you need to do is make some primary selection, pack your suitcase and then wait for some hot offer.

BTW Czechs generally have 4 weeks of paid vacation and some companies offer one extra week in order to attract employees.

Boys Forced To Eat Their Own Flesh, Prosecution Says

CONTINUOUS UPDATE BELOW

 The court is adjourned till next Tuesday…

Two boys were locked up in a basement with no windows, in cages… and they had to eat their own flesh!!!

The worst case of child abuse in which six people are charged with several crimes (including the mother of the boys and her sister) is in court since yesterday. If convicted, they can go to jail ONLY for 12 years. There is some mystery sect behind the whole thing… Damn scary…

WARNING: Explicit description of the crimes below. Discretion advised.

On May 7, 2007a man from the town of Kurim near Brno called the police when his baby monitor that he had to watch over his newborn son accidentally caught a footage of a naked boy locked in a basement. The police soon found this boy [Ondrej] in a nearby house. The investigation was focused on a relatively simple issue of child abuse.

But then as time and investigation went by child abuse turned into torture and sexual abuse. And it became apparent that the boy’s brother was tortured, too…

One of the key witnesses was this 30-something woman Barbora Skrlova who was also present in the house and who pretended to be a 13 year-old girl. She ran away from a facility for abandoned children to which she was placed as a 13 year-old Anna. And she ended up in Norway where she impersonated an 13 year-old boy !!! [Note: the photo is (c) Jiri Salik Slama at Blbejden blog]

Later it became apparent that the whole torture procedure was linked to a sect-like behavior in which mother of the boys, her sister, and several people from a boy scout club were involved.

The mother claims to have been brainwashed, and that everything she had done to the boys [being locked up in cages for dog, eating their own excrements, learning and memorizing obscenities...] had educational purposes. She basically pleaded guilty yesterday…

The boys experienced beating, drowning and cigarette burning. Barbora Skrlova [the one who posed as a girl - ed.] held their hands so that they would not fight back, the state prosecutor said.

Almost everything was orchestrated by the boys’ aunt. The other two male defendants who are said to have led the sect were the ones who cut a piece of one of the boy’s flesh from his buttocks.

The real motive was not revelared nor explained. The sect dimension and brainwashing is quoted most often.

Testimony of the boy Ondrej in court on Wednesday: “There were more people. They were spanking me on my butt. I did not see them because I had a bag on my head which they tied with a string. My hands were tied, too. I was on the ground naked and they would beat me with belts or sticks. They also made me burn myself with cigarettes. It was my mother who handed me one. I burned myself five times”.

Sixty witnesses are expected to appear in court during the upcoming six weeks…

UPDATE THURSDAY JUNE 19:
The court is in session as of 8:30 a.m. The court is reading testimonies the two boys and the defendants who tortured them made when interrogated by the police. Apparently, their mother used Rammstein CD’s to create atmosphere.

This is what the mother told the police according to the court: “I was told by Doctor [the mysterious manipulator] to do things that I could not do. That is why Turek and Skrla arrived [the two male defendants]. They said the boys needed shock treatment. So I put the Rammstein CD on and left. I heard screaming. When I came back the boys had scratches all over and they were bleeding. I wanted to treat the wounds but my sister would not let me to”.

Linkin Park In Brno

Linkin Park concert in Brno tonight.

They are playing in an open-air arena. I don’t have to see them, I can go to a nearby park, spread a blanket, open a glass of wine and just sit there with my most favorite person in the world. Price: CZK 0.

3 Things: Czech Republic vs. Turkey

There are three important things Czechs could learn from the nation whose capital is Ankara. First, learn how to win an important EURO 2008 match, second, learn how to win an important EURO 2008 match, and last but not least, learn how to win an important EURO 2008 match.

I think we can also mention their excellent Doner Kebap stands, especially those you can see around Berlin or Vienna. As fas as I know, there is only one genuine kebap vendor in Brno, way far from downtown.

Somebody should do something about it…

Anti-Globalization Rally: Is This Police Brutality?

[updated Monday June 16] I gotta start by saying that I do not share the beliefs and opinion of Greenpeace, anarchists and similar anti-globalization and anti-capitalism movements that met in Brno Saturday at ProtestFest. A festival that was focused on global warming this time. They marched through town. The march was approved. And: now for photo number one:

This amateur photographer was standing in the middle of the street and when he did not respond to a cop telling him to get away, four riot unit cops jumped out from a van and got him. And photo number two:

This girl wanted to use a bathroom at a gas station that these cops were protecting. She went there despite being told [I assume] to keep walking with the crowd. I am sure nothing would happen if the cops let her go pee… MORE PHOTOS FROM THE MARCH AND THESE INCIDENTS CAN BE FOUND HERE…

Other than that, the anti-capitalism meeting was ridiculous in several ways: a) most attendees left when the bands stopped playing because they were there just for the music. You could see they were trendy-clothes wearing youth who do not give a shit about globalization. And b) the entire anti-globalization event can be described as globalization everywhere you look: some organizers used cell phones, they used Ford cars that are manufactured all over the world, some people drank Coca Cola, some wore brand-name jeans… If these young and agry people are SO anti-capitalism [not all of them, of course, but some groups that attended the event] they should stop using ALL services and amenities that are somehow related to capitalism. Which means they should eat what they grow, they should stop shopping, they should stop using gas (RWE Group’s) etc.

MONDAY UPDATE: these two incidents are not mentioned in newspaper articles. Only one briefly mentions the gas station incident saying that it was closed anyway. So why didn’t the cops say so? The girl would not bother… Strange…