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November 04, 2005
Why torch your neighbor's car?
The BBC News is running an article on the week of violence in towns in the outskirts of Paris. The media here in France have been carrying the story of course.
This morning I was flipping through radio channels on the way to work. Somebody from France Inter was interviewing somebody from the police. Earlier an announcer read a blurb about a talk radio program that was going to cover the banlieux. It came across in the same tone they reserve for talking about Corsica, which is to say it's some mostly foreign place they visit with a shiver, glad they don't have to inhabit.
My question is what does your outlook on life have to be before you decide to torch your neighbor's car? Imagine you feel so generally hopeful that you decide the thing to do is chuck a bottle full of burning gas through the closed window of a car that belongs to some guy who lives down the hall from you.
Posted by Mark at November 4, 2005 08:53 PM
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