I barely avoided a homicidal manic by only minutes last night...

[Ecthy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5022498.stm

Last night this city saw the celebrated opening of the new central railway station. I went there to meet up with a friend and his g/f, to go out on drinks after the fireworks and laser show thing. We made our way through masses of people, the city center was crowded with half a million of them.

As we walked through the Mitte district, we encountered dozens of police and emergency cars. I had an idea there might have been something big, but since there were no rumors or anything I thought it might as well be several single incidents that usually occur in big masses of people roaming through narrow streets.

This morning come news of a 16 year old running around stabbing people randomly, injuring 28, several of them seriously. No fatalities, no life danger anymore. So we got off sort of lightly, but still. Thing is, he pulled it off at around 2330 in the area "between Reichstag and Luisenstraße". That doesn't mean anything to you, but I'll have you know my friends and me just walked exactly the same way, just minutes earlier. Might as well have been in the frenzy.

[BeBMan]

I'm ok too

[Asher]

1. Europe's Culture of Violence
2. Europe's media driving children mad
3. Finnish Death Metal made him do it
4. Ban GTA
5. Ban knives
6. Why do we still have Europe? World 1.0 is obsolete.

[Dauphin]

Don't worry guys. I'm ok.

A 29-YEAR-OLD man died after he was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver in a fight outside a south east London pub.

David Rodway, 29, from Orpington, died at 11.30am Monday morning, two days after the fight outside the Walkabout pub on Bromley High Street, Bromley.

[Ecthy]

Bernd, were you at the event? Did you notice anything of the Panik? We walked along Luisenstraße and policemen and cars came ahead, yet we noticed no public fear or anything. Weird. We must have missed him by meters only, yet we noticed no upheaval.

[Ecthy]

I will now answer questions about how it feels to almost being stabbed to death, missed by mere hundreds of meters.

[Gangerolf]

probably al qaida

[Ecthy]

The boy is not an immigrants' kid, but he's from teh evil district of Neukölln. Al Qaida links possible

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Bernd, were you at the event? Did you notice anything of the Panik?

No, just read later about it.....

[Thorn]

I wasn't in your town what are you ranting about Etchy......

[VetLegion]

I thought from the thread title that this was going to be about a botched Apolyton meeting

[Winston]

Originally posted by Ecthy
I barely avoided a homicidal manic by only minutes last night...

Sure, keep rubbing it in.

[Sava]

I live in America... I'm literally dodging bullets every day!

I put on kevlar in the morning the way you guys put on underwear (except Pekka, we know he goes commando). That's how bad it is here.

[Colonâ„¢]

I live near near a place that was bombed by a V-2 during WW2. I will now answer questions about how it feels to almost being bombed to death, missed by mere hundreds of meters.

[Ecthy]

...and tens of years?