THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY » Odds and Ends http://deviousdiva.com The only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for enough good people to do nothing. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:46:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Warning about Eggs http://deviousdiva.com/2008/04/16/warning-about-eggs/ http://deviousdiva.com/2008/04/16/warning-about-eggs/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:49:09 +0000 deviousdiva http://deviousdiva.com/2008/04/16/warning-about-eggs/ There will be much egg buying (and eating) over the next few weeks because Easter is fast approaching. Jokes about not being able to boil an egg spring to mind but there are obviously some people who really can’t.

Please be careful…

From Kathimerini

The Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) yesterday warned consumers to be careful when purchasing traditional dyed eggs for Orthodox Easter. The eggs should bear a label indicating the final deadline by which they can be consumed and explaining their date of production and origin, EFET said. Retailers should not mark boiled, dyed eggs as “fresh” as this term can be applied only to eggs before they are boiled, EFET added.

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Could this happen anywhere else ?

A pedestrian has been charged with damaging property after walking over a car that was parked illegally on the sidewalk in Greece’s congested capital.

“I could not get past the vehicle, a four-wheel drive, which had been parked right on the pavement so I got angry and just walked over it, slightly denting its hood,” Tasos Pouliasis told state television Tuesday.

Greeks are notoriously unruly drivers leaving their cars on sidewalks, wheelchair ramps and even hospital entrances.

The owner of the vehicle in Athen’s Exarhia neighborhood saw him and called police who arrested Pouliasis and his girlfriend and briefly detained them in a police cell.

“Now I will be tried for property damage but police did not even bother giving the car owner a parking ticket,” Pouliasis said.

The owner of the illegally parked car called the police!.
I know, you’re right …
I have no sense of humour.

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Via Kathimerini

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