Theft Protection For Your Car
This looks very much like a basic anti-theft device: Simply fasten the car body to the street. (seen in Palmovka)
Tagged: crime
Man Hides Overnight in Restaurant, Devours 6 Geese and 3 Ducks
A 48-year-old man hid in a Prague restaurant, only to devour an incredible amount of food, according to news reporting: six baked geese, weighing about five kilograms each, three ducks, a four liter jar...
Czech Software Pirate Convicted to Promote Anti-Piracy Video
A busted Czech software pirate called Jakub needs to get 200,000 views for a video where he tells about his story and the trouble resulting from his misdeeds. According to the plaintiffs (reported by...
Transfer Request at Václav Havel Airport
Seen at Prague’s Václav Havel Airport, international arrivals. (credits: S. S.)
The Homeless Millionaire
František Václavek is probably one of the world’s few homeless millionaires – not because of the weak Czech currency but because his legitimate property is still to be released by the authorities. Four years...
Important Security Announcement: Czech Republic is NOT Chechnya
Some people should definitely repeat their Geography lessons before they plan their next invasion. What did America ever do to the Czech Republic? Where even is the Czech Republic? EDIT: Here is...
Man from Liberec: Jail is better than meeting own family
A 42-year-old man from Liberec who has been pardoned during the recent amnesty decided to go back to prison, rather than seeing his family, as Metro reports. Three other prisoners seem to have been...
Kafka on Prague, Revisited
Artists call them claws while drivers use to call them wheel clamps. Poster by reSITE
Prague’s Bogus Super Hero
One year ago, Prague’s petty crime scene was profoundly shaken up by a local super hero who intervened at the grass-roots level to fight parking offenders, smokers, people urinating in public and dog owners...
Precognition Triggers Police Operation at Prague Airport
It happened on Wednesday, February 14, 2007. The police marched up at the Prague Airport Ruzyně, with automatic weapons, in bullet-proof vests, in armoured cars, and supported by specialists from the bomb squad. This...
An accident? Suicide? Murder?
The 5-year-old gorilla Tatu was found dead in the Prague zoo. Cause of death: strangulation with a rope. Witnesses: Kamba. It is unclear how the events with the tragic ending unfolded. The zoo does...
Travel Agency Offers Tours to Discover Corruption
I love those initiatives with a healthy dose of irony and black humor that lend a voice to people’s minds where democracy tries to silence them. The latest is CorruptTour, a “tour operator” that...
