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by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 at 02:48:53 PM EST
Skateboarder wanted after breaking speed limit - Telegraph
A skateboarder filmed breaking the speed limit is being hunted by police in Germany.

A man was filmed riding a skateboard down a steep stretch of south German motorway at 100 km an hour (62mph), well above the speed limit of 80km an hour.

Police believe the man, who raced down the Ulm-Stuttgart motorway for two miles before he stopped and fled, to be a professional stuntman.

A video of the mystery skateboarder was broadcast on German television networks and showed a helmeted figure wearing a red and white protective suit building up speed by holding onto the back of a motorcycle before letting go and free-wheeling.

Goeppingen police spokesman Uli Stoeckle, said: "We are particularly concerned about copycats who may imitate the stunt, putting their lives at risk.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 at 02:59:18 PM EST
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I am amazed that a skateboard can be so fast.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 at 03:03:18 PM EST
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Isn't getting a speeding ticket almost a badge of honour for a skateboarder? Mightn't giving tickets actually encourage copycats?
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 at 03:21:04 PM EST
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Unwed French justice minister is pregnant - International Herald Tribune

PARIS: Justice Minister Rachida Dati of France, one of the stars of President Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet, announced Wednesday that she was pregnant but declined to identify the father.

The daughter of North African immigrants, Dati, 42-year-old and divorced, has become the public face of Sarkozy's drive to add diversity to French politics.

Since taking office last year, she has appeared almost as often in the glossy magazines as in the serious political press, prompting criticism that she was seeking celebrity status rather than concentrating on her job.

On Wednesday, she confirmed rumors that she was pregnant after the weekly magazine VSD splashed her on the front page saying she was expecting a child.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 12:07:07 AM EST
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One way to get back into the news...
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 03:21:41 AM EST
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But as Bill Maher noted, France is mature enough to not care that much.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 06:27:41 AM EST
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to the public, because her image has been burned by incompetence and shallowness.

But the combination of being a minister, having a first child at 40+-years, not being married and and not even revealing the nam of the father would be rather ... interesting in the US.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 09:04:32 AM EST
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True, at least at a national level. But think Merkel - I think she only got married when she became CDU leader - the party which whose core was originally political Catholicism. And your two presidential candidates. A woman living with her longtime partner, never married vs. a man whose wife had just had a very public affair. I can see a divorced forty-something politician who gets pregnant here easier than that.
by MarekNYC on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 10:28:36 AM EST
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Isn't being up to your third or fourth wife like a badge of honor for Republican pols these days? At least that's the impression I got following US politics from this side of the pond...

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
by Bernard on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 04:09:35 PM EST
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http://www.lobserv.info/interne.php?reference=1125

immediately denied by Aznar´s right wing foundation in Spain.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Fri Sep 5th, 2008 at 07:37:32 PM EST
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