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Last year my wife and I (both in our 60's) took a six month camping trip in Europe. We had an old VW pop-top. We had come north from Barcelona, Spain, and pulled into a rest stop near Narbonne, France. We parked among other campers and went to sleep.
A short time later my wife woke up and hollered that there was a man in our camper. I woke up and saw a guy very close to me, robbing us. I shouted and tried to leap up and he ran away with three others. I got out of the camper and couldn't do much. I forgot what I was up for, looked at the stars a while, then sort of got back on track, but it didn't last. After a while we got ourselves sorted out. We went to a phone, found somebody who spoke French, and called the police. They said they were not open until 9AM; it was about 3AM at the time.
We took stock of what was gone and what was left. Our cash, quite a lot of it, was gone, as were our wedding rings and watches. Bank and credit cards were missing. No passports. We had 3.65 euros, about $5. It cost more than that to pay the toll to get off the highway. Things looked kind of grim.
The toll collector let us go through for 30 euro-cents and we found the police station, where we had to wait until 9AM, as promised.
The French police, wen they arrived, were wonderful. They let me call my son, who sent money and called around to cancel credit and bank cards. They introduced us to a campground where they arranged for us to stay, on credit, until we got things straightened out. They went through all the trash containers on the highway and recovered all our papers, including passports and driving licenses. Of course, we never got the jewelry or money back.
The next day (this happened on a Sunday) we recieved the money my son had sent.
The day after that we paid our bills and continued on our way. A couple of weeks later we got to Amsterdam and sold the VW. That was enough camping!
The police did say that we were lucky that I was unable to be more aggressive toward the thieves. What they did turns out to be not unusual in that part of the world. They find a small crack or something in the camper and introduce some sort of a gas which keeps you asleep. It was unusual that we woke up, and it was lucky I was too drugged to give much of a chase, as they don't have guns, but they do carry some fierce knives.
this is a short one sorry
one day a boy went to the shop
he dissapeared
then was found in the toilet
he had drowned
Its not mine but some really odd news about food and all:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/08032...
Talk about El Cheapos!
This other one is kindda cute!
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080319/od...
When i was 18 i went with three friend to see the Sydney Kings and Brisbane Bullets Basketball players for the first time, my friend not knowing her limits, bought a foghorn and blasted the stadium.
This strange story is about a series of uncanny coincidences which link two of America's most popular presidents: Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy...
Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846, Kennedy was elected 100 years later, almost to the day in fact. After their deaths from assassination, both of these presidents were succeeded by Southerners with the surname Johnson. Lincoln was succeeded by Andrew Johnson, who was born in 1808, and Kennedy was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson, who was born in 1908. Both Johnsons have 13 letters in their names and both of them served in the US Senate.
Mary Lincoln and Jackie Kennedy both had children who died while their husbands were in the White House.
Both Lincoln and Kennedy studied law.
John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald both had fifteen letters in their name, and were both Southerners, were both in their 20s, and of course, both assassins were shot before they could stand trial. Kennedy had a secretary named Miss Lincoln, and Lincoln had a secretary named John Kennedy.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and ran to a warehouse, and Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theatre. Stranger still, the car Kennedy was travelling in when he was shot was a Ford Lincoln. Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre.
Both assassinations took place on a Friday, and the two presidents were shot in the back of the head while their wives were at their side.
Kennedy and Lincoln were both historic civil rights campaigners who were heavily criticised while in office but where glorified after they died.
On the day of the assassinations Kennedy and Lincoln made strange prophetic statements. Hours before Lincoln was shot, he said to his personal guard, "If somebody wants to take my life, there is nothing I can do prevent it."
And hours before Kennedy went to Dallas in 1963, he said to his wife Jackie, "If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it?"
And finally, both presidents were said to have been victims of a conspiracy. When Lincoln was shot, the telegraph lines out of Washington D.C. remained silent for three hours on the orders of a high-ranking official who has never been identified. It is thought this information blackout was arranged to give John Wilkes Booth - who was fleeing from the scene of the crime - a head start.