Papers please...
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Farmwithjunk
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"He was finally found by an elite police team in a barn on his farm in Lauterbach, in central Germany"......Just how "elite" would that be? Tracking a manure spreader 
"In the countryside we're used to people going at police with muck spreaders, but this was something else". OK. I'd rather take my chances against a "muck spreader" that an asault rifle when all is said and done.
"In the countryside we're used to people going at police with muck spreaders, but this was something else". OK. I'd rather take my chances against a "muck spreader" that an asault rifle when all is said and done.
Jimbrown
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If you have never lived in Europe it is difficult to understand but their concept is different. Thre are very few fences and almost no one lives on their farm they live in the village. The farms are crisscrossed with trails used for walking bycycles and farmers. There is no concept of tresspass on the farm trails. You can go from village to village via the farm trails and most are marked on the maps.The woods are extensive and all undergrowth is removed. Being in one of there forrest is like being in a park with large trees. The army hides entire armoured divisions in them.
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Hi JimBrown
Exactly! When I was in RO we did a bunch of walking between farms thru the woods and ancient dirt roads. For sure its a whole diff drill! Our host knew all the trails too...some of which werent at all visible from the dirt roads we were using.
Also the concept of village surrounded by fields was played out in an interesting way there (RO). Every morning and evening the paved roads became clogged w/ domestic animals (geese, ducks, cattle, sheep, horse) moving to/from pasture to/from the family homes (walled compounds). RO, mostly b/c of the commies, was a throw back to pre-WWI almost. Very little (working) technology aside from a very few cars. The utility systems were hit/miss on the best of days. We were there a couple yrs after the overthrow of the Soviet puppet govt. Cell phones were just staring to become common.
Anyway, back to topic...the idea of an old guy on a tractor holding the police off w/ a manure spreader and loader forks sort of makes you chuckle. No hi-speed chase on this one!!
Exactly! When I was in RO we did a bunch of walking between farms thru the woods and ancient dirt roads. For sure its a whole diff drill! Our host knew all the trails too...some of which werent at all visible from the dirt roads we were using.
Also the concept of village surrounded by fields was played out in an interesting way there (RO). Every morning and evening the paved roads became clogged w/ domestic animals (geese, ducks, cattle, sheep, horse) moving to/from pasture to/from the family homes (walled compounds). RO, mostly b/c of the commies, was a throw back to pre-WWI almost. Very little (working) technology aside from a very few cars. The utility systems were hit/miss on the best of days. We were there a couple yrs after the overthrow of the Soviet puppet govt. Cell phones were just staring to become common.
Anyway, back to topic...the idea of an old guy on a tractor holding the police off w/ a manure spreader and loader forks sort of makes you chuckle. No hi-speed chase on this one!!
madpogue
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Too bad there isn't video; it'd be a hoot to hear a John-Bunnell-style narration of it.
You mean that guy on the "Worlds Wildest Police Chases" shows? I cannot STAND to watch the ones he "narrates". He is the worst (best?) example of over-dramatization I've ever heard! Maybe he'd be a good stand-in for selling "oxy-clean" detergent!
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madpogue
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Actually, he's hawking HD-radio for Best Buy, in a style in which he kinda makes fun of himself.
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jimg said:Hi JimBrown
Anyway, back to topic...the idea of an old guy on a tractor holding the police off w/ a manure spreader and loader forks sort of makes you chuckle. No hi-speed chase on this one!!
OLD GUY! Sheesh! He's young at 53!
