Wacky German Hobbies

Those wacky Germans. It started with running around scaring ostriches into impotency with firecrackers. Poor Gustav. (That one is still in court, by the way. The court case is lasting longer than Gustav these days.) But they had to think up some other way to pass the time when the firecrackers ran low. So they came up with a whole new hobby.

Gluing grandpa to the roof.

Passers-by were so shocked to see the elderly handyman working on the roof they first thought he was planning to commit suicide, according to police in the eastern city of Magdeburg.

"In fact he was just re-coating the roofing with bitumen. But then he slipped," said a spokesman for police.

"When we got there, he was like a beetle on its back, with his arms and legs sprawled out and completely glued to the roof," he added. "Due to his age, he couldn't free himself from his unfortunate situation."

Oh, sure. They say he slipped. We think he was pushed. We here at Blue Crab Boulevard want to go on the record as strongly disapproving of gluing the elderly to inanimate objects. We're doing that preemptively in case the kids get any ideas later.

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  By wheels, Wednesday, 14 March , 2007 @ 8:42 am

  I’ll go on record as agreeing with you; my daughter has already pointed out some of my belongings (such as my Samurai Cat prints) and noted, “You know I’m going to kill you so I can inherit this, right?”

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