Yara 20.02.2009 08:31 |
A Brazilian woman tried to blackmail the Swiss Goverment putting on a fake freak show. What you may not read in the press are the following words: WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE BRAZILIAN AUTHORITIES WHICH ACCUSED THE SWISS, BEFORE ANY INVESTIGATION, OF BEING FASCISTS; AND OUR MINISTER OF JUSTICE EVEN THREATNED TO TAKE THE CASE TO THE U.N BASED ONLY ON WHAT THE WOMAN HAD SAID TO THE...PRESS! THAT'S THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT AND HOW RESPONSIBLE IT IS. The woman is wicked enough, but she may be derranged or something. But the government has no excuse. And now the woman may face a three year jail setence for the fraud, though people believe that the case will probably be solved with the payment of a fee. She can't - rightly so, let me stress - leave Switzerland until the end of the trials. Here's the whole thing: link I'll keep you updated even if you're not interested. I promise. |
Winter Land Man 28.02.2009 17:44 |
God Hamlet! To be honest, Yara, I think Richard Orchard should make you Queenzone's official News Archivist. [img=/images/smiley/msn/wink_smile.gif][/img] |
YourValentine 02.03.2009 06:50 |
Strangely, a very similar case happend in Germany about a year ago: a young woman claimed she was attacked by neonazi skinheads who allegedly carved a swastika into her skin with a kniife. It took the police quite a while to find out that the woman had actually hurt herself. She was convicted to 40 hours of social labour for faking a crime. Very strange that almost the same happened now in Switzerland - maybe a copy. |
magicalfreddiemercury 02.03.2009 07:26 |
And here in the States, just before our historic elections in November '08, a white woman said she was attacked by a black man who carved the letter B into her face while saying she WAS going to vote for Obama not McCain. She said she was at an ATM and this guy first stole the money she withdrew then noticed her McCain bummer sticker and attacked. She called police but refused medical attention. They determined she'd made the entire thing up... and the fact that the letter "B" was carved backwards helped them determine she did the carving herself with the use of a mirror. D'uh. She confessed not long after. People. |
Yara 02.03.2009 10:41 |
magicalfreddiemercury wrote: And here in the States, just before our historic elections in November '08, a white woman said she was attacked by a black man who carved the letter B into her face while saying she WAS going to vote for Obama not McCain. She said she was at an ATM and this guy first stole the money she withdrew then noticed her McCain bummer sticker and attacked. She called police but refused medical attention. They determined she'd made the entire thing up... and the fact that the letter "B" was carved backwards helped them determine she did the carving herself with the use of a mirror. D'uh. She confessed not long after. People. Yeah, pretty much what happened in this case. The S craved on her body - S standing for SVP, a Swiss political party - was reversed. The lie about her being pregnant was easily unmasked by the Swiss authorities and the press - none of the medical tests she had taken showed the slightest sign of pregnancy. Her friends and colleagues here stated that she had tried to get them into believing in her pregnancy by showing the images of a ultrasound, probably counting on their ignorance about how to interpret the results of the test. Her error, though, was that she went on to actually make the ultrasound test available online and people soon got access to it after the incident - it was further proof for the police that she had lied about the violence. She claimed that she had suffered a miscarriage due to the attack, and that she was pregnant of twins. Now she admitted it all and is going, in a worst case scenario, to face about a year in jail. If she's lucky, she'll get the payment of a fee as a punishment. As I said above, the woman probably had many reasons to lie, from trying to get a compensation by the Swiss Government to simply drawing attention to her in some sick way. I feel compassion for her as a human being, as I'd feel for other people in the same situation, regardless of their nationality. What's unacceptable is Brazil's irresponsible way of handling almost every single international affair. The accusations sounded here especiallly hypocritical. Brazil is, after all, the country where, according to very conservative U.N numbers, murder got to "epidemic status" as 50.000 people get killed each year. It's worse than Iraq has ever been. Many of the victims, although by no means the bulk of them, were foreigners - from English to French, American and Swiss, who come here expecting to have a hell of a good time and end up being robbed and/or killed. I was robbed in the streets already and the year has barely begun. I think I'm in for a treat in the months to come. :))) |
YourValentine 08.04.2009 03:02 |
I am sorry to hear you were robbed, Yara :( |
Winter Land Man 08.04.2009 10:54 |
Sorry for the off topic bit here, but it needs to be said. Now I love the Swiss, yeah, but I don't know if I "love" the Brazilians, I'm sure I'd like them, but they don't seem to know much about automobilies. I was working at a gas station a couple years back and these Brazilians came to the store. It was in December and it was snowing out. The damn guy just bought a 2001 BMW with a sun roof. Well the fool opened the sunroof (electric sunroof/moon roof) while it was snowing and I imagine it had frozed up. He was holding up the traffic going to the pumps to the point where I actually bothered to try to help him shut it, because while he was trying to shut the sunroof, his father or whatever was pressing the gas pedal as far as it goes, thinking it would make it shut. Idiots. I couldn't get the thing to shut, an electrical issue no doubt (that's what he gets for buying the first car he see's on the side of the road for sale), and he takes a piece of wood from a dumpster and puts it on the top of his car. Then he grabs a branch across the street and loads it onto the top of it. He didn't tie any of it down. My boss told him he can't do that. So the guy then decides to throw the wood away and then told my boss "I keep hand on tree". And that was it. The guy and his entourage then left to Boston (About an hour and a half away), and the guy was holding a branch over his sunroof while he was driving. I'm still wondering if the poor man made it to Boston! He had to of let go of that branch because it was snowing and his hand would of gotten frost bit. LoL! That's my only experience with Brazilians. They seemed vulnerable and not too smart with vehicles. My boss, who was born in India and is Muslim and then moved to Switzerland, said he doesn't like Brazilians for some reason. |
Winter Land Man 08.04.2009 10:56 |
Yara wrote:magicalfreddiemercury wrote: And here in the States, just before our historic elections in November '08, a white woman said she was attacked by a black man who carved the letter B into her face while saying she WAS going to vote for Obama not McCain. She said she was at an ATM and this guy first stole the money she withdrew then noticed her McCain bummer sticker and attacked. She called police but refused medical attention. They determined she'd made the entire thing up... and the fact that the letter "B" was carved backwards helped them determine she did the carving herself with the use of a mirror. D'uh. She confessed not long after. People.Yeah, pretty much what happened in this case. The S craved on her body - S standing for SVP, a Swiss political party - was reversed. The lie about her being pregnant was easily unmasked by the Swiss authorities and the press - none of the medical tests she had taken showed the slightest sign of pregnancy. Her friends and colleagues here stated that she had tried to get them into believing in her pregnancy by showing the images of a ultrasound, probably counting on their ignorance about how to interpret the results of the test. Her error, though, was that she went on to actually make the ultrasound test available online and people soon got access to it after the incident - it was further proof for the police that she had lied about the violence. She claimed that she had suffered a miscarriage due to the attack, and that she was pregnant of twins. Now she admitted it all and is going, in a worst case scenario, to face about a year in jail. If she's lucky, she'll get the payment of a fee as a punishment. As I said above, the woman probably had many reasons to lie, from trying to get a compensation by the Swiss Government to simply drawing attention to her in some sick way. I feel compassion for her as a human being, as I'd feel for other people in the same situation, regardless of their nationality. What's unacceptable is Brazil's irresponsible way of handling almost every single international affair. The accusations sounded here especiallly hypocritical. Brazil is, after all, the country where, according to very conservative U.N numbers, murder got to "epidemic status" as 50.000 people get killed each year. It's worse than Iraq has ever been. Many of the victims, although by no means the bulk of them, were foreigners - from English to French, American and Swiss, who come here expecting to have a hell of a good time and end up being robbed and/or killed. I was robbed in the streets already and the year has barely begun. I think I'm in for a treat in the months to come. :))) Robbed? YIKES! How many times in your life have you been robbed? You make it sound as if it's a common thing. I've been to New York and I've once walked in the ghettos of Boston and wasn't robbed. You must live in a HUGE city. That must of been scary. |