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Title: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: Lightyear on June 19, 2015, 07:22:00 PM
 ;D
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/06/19/german-man-takes-revenge-on-ex-wife-by-sawing-everything-own-in-half-selling-it/
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!
Post by: Dave W on June 20, 2015, 04:03:52 PM
Yoko Ono once said that sawing things in half is an art form.
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!
Post by: Rob on June 20, 2015, 08:36:43 PM
She also said she could sing.
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!
Post by: Highlander on June 21, 2015, 01:13:32 AM
Even a brick can fly, albeit only until it hits the ground... ;)
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!
Post by: Pilgrim on June 21, 2015, 10:12:51 AM
Quote from: Highlander on June 21, 2015, 01:13:32 AM
Even a brick can fly, albeit only until it hits the ground... ;)

Well, as the man said as he passed the 20th floor after jumping off the 60th floor, "Everything is fine so far."
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!
Post by: Highlander on June 21, 2015, 10:58:48 AM
Only the sudden stop is fatal, usually...
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!
Post by: Pilgrim on June 21, 2015, 04:49:39 PM
Quote from: Highlander on June 21, 2015, 10:58:48 AM
Only the sudden stop is fatal, usually...

Eggz - ackly.
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!
Post by: Dave W on June 21, 2015, 10:51:24 PM
Quote from: Highlander on June 21, 2015, 01:13:32 AM
Even a brick can fly, albeit only until it hits the ground... ;)

But Keith Maniac could put bricks to sleep.
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!
Post by: uwe on June 22, 2015, 07:15:07 AM
Scott's in Germany?!  :o

He saw to it that she would live to regret it.
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!
Post by: Dave W on June 22, 2015, 02:36:59 PM
More drama in Germany (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/06/19/Police-Reported-lifeless-body-was-Papa-Smurf-balloon/5221434729467/)
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!
Post by: Pilgrim on June 22, 2015, 04:00:58 PM
Shucks...I would have expected a story like that out of Texas.

Wonder what would happen if I got a bunch of those balloons, put them in a bus with prison markings on it, and parked it outside a Wal-Mart in Texas?
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!
Post by: daan on June 24, 2015, 04:27:31 PM
A guy I used to work with did something like this during his divorce- he started chopping everything he could get his hands on, in half with a chain-saw. I think he's still making payments on a bunch of the stuff he destroyed...
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!
Post by: uwe on June 25, 2015, 08:28:27 AM
Quote from: Lightyear on June 19, 2015, 07:22:00 PM
;D
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/06/19/german-man-takes-revenge-on-ex-wife-by-sawing-everything-own-in-half-selling-it/

Never underestimate the krauts, they can even show humor (if forced). It now turns out that this was a spoof set off by the German Bar Association (i.e. their online arm where you can select attorneys for certain assignments) to get people to think about getting legal advice in separation scenarios early on!

https://anwaltauskunft.de/magazin/gesellschaft/panorama/1046/wir-sind-martin-g/

They admitted as much now: "We are Martin G." (the man with the saw). They are extremely pleased how quickly it went viral. The halved items do exist however and are sold on ebay, proceeds will go to charity.

Who'd have thought that a German Bar Association publicity stunt would end up here in this forum of fora? Global village alright.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: Granny Gremlin on June 25, 2015, 08:40:29 AM
More to the point, how did our very own resident  German lawyer not have anything to do with it?
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: uwe on June 25, 2015, 11:06:18 AM
I'm a member, but I'm innocent!

That is a thing Germans always tend to say in the aftermath.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: Granny Gremlin on June 25, 2015, 11:10:35 AM
right before they get wisked off towork for either the Yanks or the Russians.  ;)
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: Pilgrim on June 25, 2015, 01:10:15 PM
Quote from: uwe on June 25, 2015, 11:06:18 AM
I'm a member, but I'm innocent!

That is a thing Germans always tend to say in the aftermath.  :mrgreen:

You weren't even following orders.....  :P
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: Highlander on June 25, 2015, 01:43:20 PM
Somewhat like East-enders saying "Weren't me Guv...!"
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: Dave W on June 28, 2015, 04:52:41 PM
More news from Germany (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/24/us-odd-germany-robbery-idUSKBN0P41CG20150624)
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: Highlander on June 28, 2015, 06:02:53 PM
That'll sucking teach them... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: Granny Gremlin on June 29, 2015, 05:55:56 AM
Look, middle aged German women can be downright frightenning..... take it from 16 y/o me who, while travelling alone, had the misfortune of piquing the interest of the 6'+ blonde Bavarian security person in Munich airport. 
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: Dave W on July 03, 2015, 10:59:44 AM
Hier is kein Hundeklo! (http://www.thelocal.de/20150701/women-throw-punches-over-discarded-dog-poo)
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: uwe on July 07, 2015, 04:08:55 AM
Ah, wimmin! They will quarrel about any crap.

I found this more moving, they have taken his beloved Panther away!

http://www.thelocal.de/galleries/news/second-world-war-weapons-haul-recovered-from-cellar/3

(http://www.thelocal.de/userdata/galleries/4545/pantherfront.jpg)

And not only did the klutzes damage his Panther but also his house/villa in the process! What kind of country do I live in that you can no longer own a little Panzerkampfwagen V at the side?

Seriously, he has owned that tank since the seventies, salvaged it from a Brit scrapyard, it is no longer armed, it stayed in a special garage in his cellar most of the time, he drove around with it once in a particular heavy winter in the mid-seventies when he used the Panther to pull out some truck stuck in a snow drift ... and now the prosecutors are going hypher as if they had found some secret arsenal.  :o
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: Granny Gremlin on July 07, 2015, 02:07:47 PM
You know, it is totally not illegal to own a tank in the US (as long as not armed), and I think hwere in Canada too, not sure becaise it's not something I need to know.  I learned that from a youtube video - 10 things you thought were illegal but aren't - so it's got to be true.
Title: Re: Getting even with your ex in Germany!(+what a Bar Association has to do with it)
Post by: uwe on July 08, 2015, 07:30:49 AM
It used to be legal in Germany if it was sans working gun, but the laws changed a few years ago that you also need to remove the armor which he didn't do (had not heard of), hence all the excitement. The little Panther seems to be in pretty good shape.

Anyway, this is a historic piece by now and I doubt that 70 year old tanks play a large role in today's terrorist threat scenarios.