Paris Is burning ! Paris Is burning ! Paris Is burning !

[straffo]

Well not sorry.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Fried frog legs ... mmummm:cool:

[Boroda]

Originally posted by straffo
Well not sorry.

Are you sure? There are so many people here who know better - they saw it on TV!

[moot]

[Monk]

Why would we care?

[GRUNHERZ]

Thankfully it's all calming down now...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5394695,00.html

[GrimCO]

What would the citizen militias arm themselves with I wonder?

[Dago]

5- Flamebaiting, trolling, or posting to incite or annoy is not allowed.

[Meatwad]

Ought oh, looks like the minorities are rioting agian. Their gonna blame bush for using the black choppers to electrocute the 2 victims with an experimental shock gun just because he hates minorities

[Dago]

Originally posted by straffo
Well not sorry.

The Associate Press seems to differ:

AUBERVILLIERS, France - Marauding youths torched nearly 900 vehicles, stoned paramedics and burned a nursery school in a ninth night of violence that spread from Paris suburbs to towns around France, police said Saturday. Authorities arrested more than 250 people overnight — a sweep unprecedented since the unrest began.

For the first time, authorities used a helicopter to chase down youths armed with gasoline bombs who raced from arson attack to arson attack, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said

With 897 vehicles destroyed by daybreak Saturday, it was the worst one-day toll since unrest broke out after the Oct. 27 accidental electrocution of two teenagers who believed police were chasing them. Five hundred cars were burned a night earlier.

In a particularly malevolent turn, youths in the eastern Paris suburb of Meaux prevented paramedics from evacuating a sick person from a housing project, pelting rescuers with rocks and torching the awaiting ambulance, an Interior Ministry official said.

A nursery school was badly burned in Acheres, west of Paris.

Unrest, mainly arson, was reported in the northern city of Lille, in Toulouse in the southwest and in the Normandy city of Rouen. It was the second night that troubles spread beyond the difficult Paris suburbs.

Most attacks have been in towns with low-income housing projects, areas marked by high unemployment, crime and despair. But in a new development, gangs have left their heavily policed neighborhoods to attack others with fewer police, spreading the violence.

In Torcy, east of the capital, looters set fire to a youth center and a police station, which were gutted, city hall said. An incendiary device was tossed at the wall of a synagogue in Pierrefitte, northwest of Paris.

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Maybe not just in Paris, but a whole bunch of the Paris region seems to be quite warm, and I dont think it is related to global warming.

The term Ironic might come to mind when one considers how the French have pretend they are a superior nation compared to others, and how they have critisized the US.  Seems they might need to look inside before they continue to finger point outside.

dago

[Maverick]

Much as I would like to make fun of this I can't do so. This is not a minor situation. I wish them luck in getting this settled down and working on keeping it from happening again.

[Shane]

Originally posted by GrimCO
What would the citizen militias arm themselves with I wonder?

stale baguettes.

[fartwinkle]

Originally posted by GrimCO
What would the citizen militias arm themselves with I wonder?

A nice glass of wine would be my choice LOL.

[Dago]

They can blow second smoke in the bad guys faces and hope to give them cancer.

[StarOfAfrica2]

Come on now.  I know its funny to bash the French.  I've done my share.  But the folks on the street, for the most part, have always been supporters of the US and Americans in general.  What's happening over there is horrible.  Its not the politicians who are getting roasted.  


The stale baguettes comment was funny though.