Car hits crowd near Dutch queen's bus

Mardeth

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Dutch TV clip on CNN

Two people have been killed and 12 wounded when a car careered into a crowd of people watching the Dutch royal family riding past in an open-top bus, police said. The incident took place Thursday in the town of Apeldoorn during celebrations for Queen's Day, an annual holiday in the Netherlands. Queen Beatrix was in the bus with her family when the black hatchback zoomed past.

Also read from a finnish source that 4 dead and its not believed to be an accident. The royal family wasnt hurt.

Somewhat graphic picture.
 

Fear No Evil

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Another violent car death. When are we going to ban these things or start regulating them much more heavily?
 

Robor

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Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Another violent car death. When are we going to ban these things or start regulating them much more heavily?

You're a miserable fucking tool.
 

BoberFett

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Originally posted by: Robor
Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Another violent car death. When are we going to ban these things or start regulating them much more heavily?

You're a miserable fucking tool.

Why do you want people to die?
 

ericlp

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Originally posted by: BoberFett
Originally posted by: Robor
Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Another violent car death. When are we going to ban these things or start regulating them much more heavily?

You're a miserable fucking tool.

Why do you want people to die?

I see the idiots are out in force in this thread.
 

Fear No Evil

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Originally posted by: ericlp
Originally posted by: BoberFett
Originally posted by: Robor
Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Another violent car death. When are we going to ban these things or start regulating them much more heavily?

You're a miserable fucking tool.

Why do you want people to die?

I see the idiots are out in force in this thread.

If we can save just one life..

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Jaskalas

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Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Originally posted by: ericlp
Originally posted by: BoberFett
Originally posted by: Robor
Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Another violent car death. When are we going to ban these things or start regulating them much more heavily?

You're a miserable fucking tool.

Why do you want people to die?

I see the idiots are out in force in this thread.

If we can save just one life..

One life? If we banned cars we'd save the entire planet from climate change!
 

BoberFett

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Originally posted by: ericlp
Originally posted by: BoberFett
Originally posted by: Robor
Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Another violent car death. When are we going to ban these things or start regulating them much more heavily?

You're a miserable fucking tool.

Why do you want people to die?

I see the idiots are out in force in this thread.

It's P&N. Why break precedent?
 

aphex

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Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Another violent car death. When are we going to ban these things or start regulating them much more heavily?

Troll.
 

CanOWorms

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Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Git-R-Done?

:confused:

It was probably an unstable person tired of being forced to be a peasant for his entire life. Hopefully at least some good would come out of this and the royal family steps down and the government dissolves that barbaric practice.

Hopefully the lunatic's actions don't hurt the equal rights/republicanism cause.

We'll probably have people in the future claiming that Islamic terrorists tried to assassinate the Dutch Queen though similar to how some people claim that they killed Pim Fortuyn.
 
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Horrible news.

Is there a significant republican movement in the Netherlands? I hope that given the poor racial issues in the country that the public doesn't take their anger out on certain minority groups in general.
 

Fern

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Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Horrible news.

Is there a significant republican movement in the Netherlands? I hope that given the poor racial issues in the country that the public doesn't take their anger out on certain minority groups in general.

What? "Republican movement" in the Netherlands, WTH does that mean?

Why are you concerned about about a backlash on minority groups? AFAIK the driver's name etc has not been released. Do you think he was a 'minority'?

Fern
 

OCGuy

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Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Horrible news.

Is there a significant republican movement in the Netherlands? I hope that given the poor racial issues in the country that the public doesn't take their anger out on certain minority groups in general.

Speaking of troll....

I think the using cars as a weapon V using guns as a weapon angle is much more valid than whatever the hell you are trying to say here....
 

CanOWorms

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Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Horrible news.

Is there a significant republican movement in the Netherlands? I hope that given the poor racial issues in the country that the public doesn't take their anger out on certain minority groups in general.

What? "Republican movement" in the Netherlands, WTH does that mean?

Why are you concerned about about a backlash on minority groups? AFAIK the driver's name etc has not been released. Do you think he was a 'minority'?

Fern

Republican movements are progressive movements trying to abolish antiquated monarchy governments. In some countries they are not active. In others, such as Australia, they are more popular.

Initially, there was a lot of concern that it may have been a minority. There is a LOT of racist far-right sentiment in the Netherlands right now, and this would be something that the far-right and Wilders would have further capitalized on.

However, it seems that reports state that it was not a minority. It is likely that a potentially genocide-like backlash was avoided.
 

Firebot

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Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Another violent car death. When are we going to ban these things or start regulating them much more heavily?

I'm sure if some citizen had a car at his disposal he could have stopped this vigilante before he caused some serious harm.
 
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Originally posted by: OCguy
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Horrible news.

Is there a significant republican movement in the Netherlands? I hope that given the poor racial issues in the country that the public doesn't take their anger out on certain minority groups in general.

Speaking of troll....

I think the using cars as a weapon V using guns as a weapon angle is much more valid than whatever the hell you are trying to say here....

Um, Republican Movement in this sense has nothing to do with American policies. I think that next time you should think before you post.
 

freegeeks

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Rabidmongoose and Canoworms are again trolling.
Leave it to them to turn an attempted attack from a white guy on the royal family into something racial

When are the mods going to ban these 2 losers?
 

AnitaPeterson

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Originally posted by: freegeeks
Rabidmongoose and Canoworms are again trolling.
Leave it to them to turn an attempted attack from a white guy on the royal family into something racial

When are the mods going to ban these 2 losers?

Wishful thinking...
Or maybe we can have a poll?
 

CanOWorms

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Originally posted by: freegeeks
Rabidmongoose and Canoworms are again trolling.
Leave it to them to turn an attempted attack from a white guy on the royal family into something racial

When are the mods going to ban these 2 losers?

Sorry, but it is inexcusable to not worry about it. Countries like the Netherlands are powder kegs of anti-minority tension waiting to go off. This could have been the beginning of the end. On other forums and blogs, it seems that many Dutch people are relieved at the background of the driver.