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    Oh the irony!

    I just read on the French news website Lemonde, that French Secretary of Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the French Secretary of Transportation, Gilles de Robien, were caught speeding.

    Here is the irony: they were caught speeding on the same road where they had just the very same day presented a brand new automated radar system to track speeding, and had come from a conference on road safety and the dangers of speeding!


    (Article in French)
    Le Monde - Toute l’actualité en continu
    http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-341468,0.html
    International, Economie, Environnement … La référence, partout, tout le temps.
    'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
    G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"
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  • #2
    Not as much irony as stupidity.
    It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
    RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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    • #3
      Originally posted by rah
      Not as much irony as stupidity.
      And they were speeding a lot too. The radar tracked them about 30 km/h faster than the speed limit.
      'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
      G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"

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      • #4
        Man, those French even drive too fast!
        Blah

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        • #5
          In da butt.
          "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
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          • #6
            Originally posted by rah
            Not as much irony as stupidity.
            That definitely is irony.
            Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
            Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
            We've got both kinds

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            • #7
              Yeah, I saw that today... I guess that'll teach them
              "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind" - Gandhi

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              • #8

                THE SYSTEM WORKS!


                They should be very proud.
                If you don't like reality, change it! me
                "Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
                "it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
                "Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by GePap

                  THE SYSTEM WORKS!


                  They should be very proud.
                  Maybe that will be their defense.

                  "But judge, we were testing the system to show that it works!"
                  'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
                  G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"

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                  • #10


                    That would be the best defense ever .
                    “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                    - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                    • #11


                      it's like rain










                      on your wedding lol

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                      • #12
                        Just like the French... reminds me of Inspector Clouseau. France's answer to James Bond.
                        Haven't been here for ages....

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                        • #13
                          Someting similar happened to Keiichi Tsuchiya (The drift king). He's a well known drift racer in japan who lost his drivers liscense while street racing in the mountains of Japan.
                          That event made him even more popular.

                          Spec.
                          -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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                          • #14
                            I have but 2 words for the French:

                            APRIL FOOL'S!!
                            -30-

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by The diplomat


                              Maybe that will be their defense.

                              "But judge, we were testing the system to show that it works!"
                              Probably more like, "Do you wanna keep your job, boy?"
                              I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                              I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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