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   Full Metal Thievery

   

   dorpus, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 3:43am

   
   

   Yup, playgrounds in Japan have had metal slides go missing, public bathrooms have had faucets and doors disappear.
   
   In China, a new bullet train service was launched last month with much fanfare -- but a month later, the cars were trashed. Metal thieves stole the emergency ax, seat rivets, toilet paper holders, thermostat knobs, anything made of metal that could be pried loose.

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   Re: Full Metal Thievery

   

   dorpus_is_a_troll, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 3:50am

   
   

   Do you have a link to backup your claims dopus?

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   Re: Re: Full Metal Thievery

   

   dorpus, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 4:04am

   
   

   Techdirt often auto-censors my posts when I post links to Asian news articles.
   
   Chinese bullet trains trashed
   http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070518-00000013-rcdc-cn
   
   Japanese playground equipment stolen throughout Japan
   http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0302/TKY200703020338.html

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   c0ck head

   

   dorpus_is_not_such_a_troll_now, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 4:09am

   
   

   hah you got pwnt.

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   dorpus, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 4:14am

   
   

   I keep a daily tally of violent Asian news in the "Day of Asian Violence" thread here.
   
   http://www.mixedasians.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=10

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   AZ

   

   Bobby, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 4:25am

   
   

   Here in AZ we had a fine gentleman try to steal some copper power lines that were actively carrying current.
   
   Yeah he almost died.

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   Re:

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 4:29am

   
   

   Because Americans really care about foreign countries...? Actually, the only time we truly do care is when we want to vacation there.

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   Re: Re:

   

   dorpus, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 4:36am

   
   

   Well let's see, about 12% of us are foreign born. An indefinite number of second generation Americans spend lots of time in their "home" country, owe their alliegance to foreign countries, and spend most of their lives there. Other Americans who hate themselves move to other countries long-term. It seems we have good reasons to care.
   
   The government doesn't keep statistics on these, but I figure 10-25% of all American citizens on Earth live outside of the US.

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   SomeDumbGuy, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 4:58am

   
   

   "10-25% of all American citizens on Earth"
   
   Interesting category.

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    Re:

    

    mkam, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 5:05am

    
    

    People in the International Space Station or moon don't count.

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    Re:

    

    dorpus, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 5:11am

    
    

    It's following the same trend as Europe, where the subcontinent is becoming Muslim-dominated. Europeans don't care about their own religion or traditions anymore, so Mecca is increasingly becoming the spiritual and political capital of Europe. Europe's future will see a Muslim ruling class and white savages who run around on their nude beaches and smoke pot all the time.

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    Re: Re: Re:

    

    Just Me, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 5:12am

    
    

    Lol, so just how many Yanks don't live on Earth? Anyone hazard a guess?

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    Re: Re: Re: Full Metal Thievery

    

    Sanguine Dream, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 5:33am

    
    

    I knew under all that trolling there was a logical person.

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    Reply to Just Me

    

    Just You, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 5:41am

    
    

    Well, I would say
    
    .000000000030292821 of the world's population does NOT live on the planet.
    
    How did I get that number?
    
    World Population = 6,602,224,175 (and counting)
    American Citizens on the Space station = 2
    
    2 / 6,602,224,175 = 3.0292821*10^-10

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    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    

    2, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 5:43am

    
    

    Theres always two on the space station isn't there?
    
    They send yanks up before the monkeys, to make sure it's safe of course.

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    Re: Re: Full Metal Thievery

    

    do you read, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 5:57am

    
    

    it's the huge link in the middle of the article, you know "the underlined text"

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    Re: Re:

    

    SailorRipley, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 6:47am

    
    

    Being euro-trash, I wasn't aware this was happening in my backyard, Mohamed be praised for the heads up, it's quite remarkable that somebody on a different continent sees what's going on in my backyard while I am so totally oblivious...it must be a Mecca miracle

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    Re: Re: Re:

    

    Anonymous Coward, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 6:48am

    
    

    90% of statistics are made up on the spot.

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    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    

    Paul`, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 6:50am

    
    

    Does the administrations own little world count as earth or not?

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    Re: Re:

    

    dorpus_is_a_troll, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 7:14am

    
    

    Have you even been to Europe?
    
    Please stop making things up. Its quite annoying.
    
    As much as I enjoy the types of debates that Techdirt creates, can't they ban/edit serial trolls such as Dorpus to stop us being sidetracked in the comments?

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    wait a second...

    

    a_l_flanagan, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 7:54am

    
    

    >> Europe's future will see a Muslim ruling class and white savages who run around on their nude beaches and smoke pot all the time.
    
    Dorpus, how soon will this happen? If the savages get pot and nude beaches, I'm moving to Europe.

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    Re: wait a second...

    

    dorpus, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 8:32am

    
    

    It will happen in approximately 2 minuntes.

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    Posts

    

    billy, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 8:41am

    
    

    Gee and I thought the posts on this blog would have something to do with the subject.

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    Nude Beaches

    

    Witty Nickname, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 8:47am

    
    

    I have been to Europe - I have NO DESIRE to visit a nude beach full of Europeans (no offense of course).
    
    Wait.... how much pot?

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    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    

    tom, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 9:18am

    
    

    I think one or two on the space station.

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    Translation of Dorpus' link

    

    Garlynn, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 10:53am

    
    

    from the google translation engine:

    The flier which appears 2007 May 17th, as an eyeball of railroad acceleration plan starting travelling, 1 months, for routine inspection it returned to the railroad bureau inspection place of Kanan economical 鄭 state city. Approximately at the point where 100 technicians inspect the body, what is made cruel extent ragged was found. As for the cause of becoming ragged the having going away of the fixture by the passenger. As for damage being most the sensor type faucet of the latrine. It had become large number not to be removed. Furthermore hammer for bail out. In addition the rest room which is the closed room damage was large. Flight even the heat regulation knob of the seat and the axis of the paper holder it is removed and, simply already it is vain in the actual condition which has disappeared, when it keeps collecting, the technicians drop. But the high-speed train of the dream which it starts running with fanfare, in only 1 months becoming it returns with it is the expectation which perhaps is outside supposition in the whole body creation 痍. It probably is to be pressed for judgment whether the same bureau having and going away and in the future the fixture indicating prohibition, whether it waits for the nature improvement of the passenger. (Translation compilation WF)

    crimeny, talk about tortured english. I'm not sure which is worse off, the Chinese bullet train, or that article after being munged by the translation engine...

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    Re: Re: Re:

    

    dorpus, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 11:03am

    
    

    Have you even been to Europe?
    
    Yes, I was in Germany last year. It looked exactly like San Francisco, with the vast hordes of Vietnamese and Muslim schoolkids who outnumbered white kids, the sidewalks had the same species of smelly Eucalyptus trees, all the white women made a show of going out with black men, the highways had the same Nike billboards with close-up shots of black men, the concrete-block houses were painted the same pink, yellow, and purple colors, the public transportation system was crawling with the same dirty 13-year-olds on bicycles/skateboards.
    
    Just like San Francisco, the majority of store clerks, restaurant workers didn't speak English and scowled when they had to. The town I was in (Heidelberg) was overly proud of their ugly castle that had been rebuilt many times with discordant architectural styles -- exactly like the fake stone mansions we see dotting California hillsides.
    
    p.s. I did go to the Roman/Celtic bath at Baden Baden, and (illegally) had sex with my girlfriend in one of the side pools.

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    James, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 11:18am

    
    

    Most men in Iceland drop out of school to be fishermen and the women have advanced educations, most of them excell in Math.

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    Re:

    

    dorpus, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 11:30am

    
    

    Yup, the same phenomenon happens elsewhere in rich countries. Depending on local economic conditions, blue-collar jobs may be more available and pay better than white-collar jobs. East Asian countries today have a vast oversupply of college graduates who can't get jobs. Many of them have resorted to lying about being "high school graduates" to get a job.

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: I was in Munich

    

    Nicholas, Jun 8th, 2007 @ 4:26pm

    
    

    I love germany I was there for a week and it is not even close to anything we have in the United States. These people actualy know how to DRIVE a car with a manual transmition. They actualy ride their bikes and when I say ride I mean get out of the way because minium there doing 30mph and I was almost hit 3 times when I was walking in the park. And those people keep the place clean yea some parts are dirty but have you actualy seen their air port they don't have people walking around to pick up other peoples trash. And at lest 3/4 of the country knows english and if not that then french. That was the most fun I have ever had in my life.

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    metal thievery

    

    Mickey, Jun 20th, 2007 @ 8:19am

    
    

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