Nearly three years ago I found myself wandering through the streets of a little dutch city called Leeuwarden after driving in the bitter wind across a North Sea dijk. Despite nearly freezing our toes off in the mid-February winter snow, our ultimate fate was thoroughly more tame than that of a sinister sparrow who found himself chock full of lead after disrupting a fierce, adrenaline-pumped dominos competition. We all know just how aggressive domino setters can get, so we would know better than to step between a competitor and his brick. But, alas, the poor bird was not so smart. From one of many circulating articles: “The little bird’s crime was to knock over 23,000 of the 4.3 million dominoes laid out for an attempt to break the domino toppling record in the Dutch province of Friesland on Friday. The decision was taken to shoot the bird after attempts to capture it alive were unsuccessful.” For anyone who ever though we of (even partial) dutch descent were a peace-loving folk, think again. Not only did the locals sentence the poor bird to death for his crimes against humanity, the executioner has been recently threatened to the same fate for his crimes against bird-manity. Oh! Stop the insanity. |
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