German law should apply to everyone on German soil, including the Pope, which is why a German citizen from Dortmund filed a complaint against Pope Benedict XVI when he saw that he wasn’t wearing his seat belt during a Popemobile parade.

The plaintiff, whose name was not disclosed, named Baden-Württemberg Minister-President Winfried Kretxchmann and Archbishop Rober Zolltisch as witnesses in the case and asked that they provide testimonies.

 

“Seatbelts save lives and the Pope should obey the traffic rules,” the plaintiff said, adding that a driver was killed in a traffic accident shortly after the Pope’s visit for failing to wear a seatbelt.

It would appear the plaintiff didn’t know that God offers more protection than a seat belt. /sarcasm

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Following in the footsteps of our weird Japanese friends (who’ve had urine gaming for quite a while now), a British inventor created his own urine controlled video game system.

Advertising and gaming meet in an unlikely environment with the installation of the first hands-free urinal video game. Thanks to infrared technology, users can steer themselves down a ski slope, knock down penguins or even answer quiz questions. Ruairidh Villar reports.

The gaming system can also play videos and do other geeky stuff, although the image shown on the left display at the 1:04 mark might raise some issues for those not trying to pee all over the wall.

This Black Friday could be the best one yet for many Americans, as Occupy protesters have announced that they won’t be buying anything at all from the country’s major retailers. What this means is that there will be more great deals left for the heathens who aren’t part of the Occupy movement, which is pretty f**ing amazing when you’re part of the 1% and need all the deals you can get.

Black Friday, otherwise known as the day after Thanksgiving, serves as the unofficial start of the November-December holiday shopping corridor, one of the busiest times of year for retailers. About 152 million people are expected to shop this Friday, in what has become an annual tradition of shoppers mobbing stores in the hopes of getting limited-time deals.

 

This November, a number of Occupy Wall Street groups have publicized plans to oppose Black Friday in one form or another.

This might be the first (and only) positive change brought about by the Occupy movement. These protesters are willingly giving up on their chance to score great deals, thus helping their fellow citizens have access to more goodies. Heartwarming, really.

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It’s been just a few days since the US Congress declared pizza a vegetable and someone has already managed to beat the stupidity of that!

Meet Megyn Kelly, Fox News anchor and part time dumb blonde, who believes pepper spray is “like a derivative of actual pepper, it’s a food product, essentially.”

In other news, fast food vendors are expected to begin serving hot dogs with mustard gas. Mustard gas is a food product, essentially.

South Korean politics are intense!

A South Korean lawmaker threw tear gas in the face of his opponents today in an attempt to stop the country’s ruling party from ratifying a free trade agreement with the United States. The deal was later approved by the National Assembly, but not before Kim Seon-dong plunged the chamber into the chaos by setting off the gas canister on the floor.

A pregnant woman named Jennifer Fox was taking part in a peaceful protest in Seattle last week when police started moving in on her group. “I was screaming, ‘I am pregnant, I am pregnant. Let me through. I am trying to get out.’” In the chaos, police officers either didn’t hear her or didn’t care about her pregnancy, so they hit her in the stomach and pepper sprayed her.

The woman was fine for a couple of days, but then she started feeling sick and went to see a doctor. She was told her baby had no heartbeat.

“They said the damage was from the kick and that the pepper spray got to it [the fetus], too.”

Now, most people are blaming the police for her miscarriage, but I think both the police and the woman are equally responsible for it. I mean, even though people shouldn’t be hit and pepper sprayed during peaceful protests, it’s unreasonable to expect that everything will go smoothly and everyone will go home with smiles their faces. Especially with the clear precedents set by police at earlier Occupy protests (which were also peaceful).

While violent police behavior is not justified at a peaceful protest, so is the expectation of not being harassed despite the fact that people were harassed at all the previous protests. That’s just ignoring common sense and not using any kind of caution. It’s kind of like putting on a five thousand dollar suit and walking through a dark alley in a bad neighborhood at night, expecting not to get mugged.

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