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October 14, 2015

Updated: Middle East Migrants To Europe Act Like Paying Tourists, Sue German Government


Posted October 12, 2015 10:11 PM ET; Last updated October 14, 2015 4:37 PM ET




[From article]
Around 20 Syrian migrants have filed a case against the Berlin state Government demanding immediate access to shelter and benefits after waiting for more than a week to be registered by the authorities.
It comes as serious splits emerged in Angela Merkel's Government over how to divide economic migrants from genuine refugees fleeing war-torn countries.
Hundreds of asylum seekers are still waiting to be registered due to huge backlogs at the city's main refugee centre.
Huge crowds gather outside every day and many claim they have been waiting for weeks.
Until their papers are processed by the State Office for Health and Social Affairs, the refugees have no access to Government refugee shelters or benefits.
[. . .]




More than 170,000 migrants flooded into Europe last month alone as the continent's unprecedented refugee crisis continues to spiral out of control.
This latest development is likely to raise eyebrows as Germany's controversial policy of welcoming new arrivals with open arms has already been blamed for the shocking numbers.
[. . .]
And Mrs Merkel's promise to grant automatic citizenship to refugees was blasted for encouraging more migrants to make the treacherous journey.
The country is now considering setting up "transit zones" on its borders, where migrants would be kept while their asylum claims are assessed.


http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/612015/Asylum-seekers-SUE-Germany-for-not-paying-them-benefits-FAST-ENOUGH

Asylum seekers SUE Germany for not paying them benefits FAST ENOUGH
A GROUP of asylum seekers are SUING Germany for not allowing them to register asylum quick enough so they can access benefits, throwing the Government’s goodwill back in their faces.
By Rebecca Perring
PUBLISHED: 12:36, Wed, Oct 14, 2015 | UPDATED: 14:17, Wed, Oct 14, 2015

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[From article]
There is an ironic phrase much in fashion these days, used to trivialize problems that people complain about. Just call it a “white people problem,” or its variant, “first world problem.” Things like slow internet, expensive pro sports tickets, or any of the other things that bother what Hillary Clinton calls “everyday people.”
Which makes it passing strange that these so-called “Syrian refugees” interviewed by Russia’s RT television complain about slow internet speeds, not having enough money to buy cigarettes, and food that’s fit only for a dog or a woman.



Of course, the Koran teaches that Muslims are entitled to the fruit of infidels’ labors simply because they are Muslims. So maybe these complaints are quite justifiable in their minds.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/10/watch_syrian_refugees_in_germany_complain_about_slow_internet_speeds.html

October 11, 2015
Watch: Syrian refugees in Germany complain about slow internet speeds
By Thomas Lifson

https://youtu.be/Q_XHkgScOSY

The ''Refugees'' in Europe act like Disappointed Tourists Compilation
Published on Oct 3, 2015
Even though they didn't pay for anything and weren't invited.



August 18, 2015

Tour Buses Continue Parking Everywhere




This is a neighborhood with dwindling parking spaces. In 2011 Harvard University developed a two building monster one block from this intersection. The project eliminated 26 parking spaces which were supposed to be "re-allocated" as they say at Planning Board, Zoning Board and Conservation District meetings. If they were, it was not near this area. Tour buses and delivery trucks have no place to park or to stage waiting for access to the Art Museum loading docks, or to wait for their tourist passengers. Here are two more incidents. There were more but I was unable to capture images. Recently the city removed bus parking spaces on Mass Avenue near Harvard Square to add more metered parking. That exacerbated the situation. Link to video about the city hearings in previous years about parking in this neighborhood is included below. 


Tour Buses Parking along Broadway between Prescott Street and Quincy Street. Both sides of the street are No Stopping Zones. It is a popular block for illegal delivery trucks and tour buses for the new $500 million improved Harvard University Art Museum and truck stop complex.


Cambridge Parking Department created a two space loading zone at the south west corner of Prescott Street and Broadway for the trucks. It is used, as can be seen in this image, by shuttle buses day and night. Trucks continue to use the No Stopping Zone on Broadway. Image captured April 16, 2015.


These images show a two bus caravan loading up passengers on the south side of Broadway in a No Stopping Zone. Image captured May 1, 2015.


These are Trailways buses out of Rhode Island. Image captured May 1, 2015.


Fumes from a faulty ignition system (burnt rings?) can be seen here spewing into the atmosphere. Image captured May 1, 2015.


License plate of one bus. Image captured May 1, 2015.


License plate of the other bus. Image captured May 1, 2015.


ICC and DOT ID Number for one bus. Image captured May 1, 2015.


Here is another tour bus on lay over on Broadway in a No Stopping Zone. Image captured July 1, 2015.


Driver of the Coach tour bus can be seen here resting on the marble fence of the Art Museum. Image captured July 1, 2015.


Here is the bus company number for the Coach vehicle.Image captured July 1, 2015.

Previous post on April 8, 2015 on tour buses parking on Broadway between Quincy Street and Prescott Street in a no stopping zone.

http://enoughroom.blogspot.com/2015/04/tour-buses-idling-illegal-parking.html
The City Council may recall that Harvard University removed 26 parking spaces on Prescott Street and behind 1730 Cambridge Street when they were allowed by the city to build the CGIS in 2011.


One building of Harvard University's Center For Government and International Studies at Prescott Street and Cambridge Street. It was also called the Knafel Center, named for the major contributor.

How many other parking spaces were removed by the massive building campaign erecting edifices everywhere? They were supposed to be re-allocated. Did anyone ever ensure that they were? Is that why Harvard University freely makes promises and then no one remembers to see that they perform their promises?
See this video for their (broken?) promise about Prescott Street. Parking spaces are discussed and mentioned at least three times in this 15 minute video.

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2011/06/harvard-spin-doctors-in-action.html 

Harvard University produces politicians, and acts like the politicians they produce.

May 30, 2015

New York Fraudster Takes Tourist For $200 Ride on Free Staten Island Ferry




[From article]
Dopey tourists are paying top dollar to bogus vendors for “tickets” to the Staten Island Ferry — which has been free for 18 years, The Post has learned.
One clueless pair shelled out $400 for a round-trip journey to the city’s southernmost borough, sources said.
“They’re targeting people who are tourists, because they just don’t know better,” said a source with the city’s Parks Enforcement Patrol.
Career con Gregory Reddick, 54, hooked the big fish on Wednesday while wearing a snappy “Authorized Ticket Agent” jacket near the South Street Seaport, officials said.
[. . .]


Gregory Reddick

Joseph chased Reddick to The Battery, where he and a half-dozen fellow officers surrounded the 200-pound suspect, subduing him with the help of pepper spray, the complaint says.
He allegedly still had the $400 on him, but the two tourists were already gone and the cash could not be returned, a source said.
Reddick’s rap sheet dates to his early teens and includes six felony convictions, other law-enforcement sources said.
He has at least five aliases, six Social Security numbers and seven dates of birth — and has spent at least nine years in prison for burglary and credit-card fraud, sources added.

http://nypost.com/2015/05/30/tourists-tricked-into-paying-200-for-free-staten-island-ferry-ride/

Tourists tricked into paying $200 for free Staten Island Ferry ride
By Rich Calder
New York Post
May 30, 2015 | 3:00am

May 4, 2015

Toronto Tourist Killed After Kentucky Derby, Three Suspects Arrested




Slain Toronto Tourist To Kentucky Derby, Scott Hunter
(Image Source: Courtesy of Beau Opperman)

[From article]
Police say Hunter was killed when he and his friend were headed back to their hotel after Kentucky Derby.
"It's extremely unfortunate and tragic,” said Lt. Todd Kessinger, with the LMPD Homicide Unit.
Police worked on the case all weekend and arrested Fahed Abu-Diab, Fatima Abu-Diab and Tyrone Thomas Jr.
"Two are brother and sister and the third is the boyfriend of the sister,” Kessinger said.
Police say they'd been committing robberies all weekend.
[. . .]
All suspects were interviewed by police and gave statements indicating their involvement in the robberies and homicide.
Fahed and Fatima Abu-Diab are charged with murder.
Thomas is charged with complicity to murder.
All three are facing nearly a dozen robbery charges and Fatima Abu-Diab is also facing a possession of a controlled substance charge.
Lt. Kessinger says Hunter and his friend may have tried to fight off the suspected robbers before he was killed.
"I absolutely think the gun was intentionally fired but I can't really get into the details of the actual struggle,” he said.
One of the suspects, Fahed Abu-Diab, has a history of violence.

http://www.wdrb.com/story/28969545/watch-live-louisville-metro-police-to-hold-11-am-news-conference-on-weekend-murder-arrests



Suspects in Homicide, left to right
Tyrone Thomas , Fatima Abu-Diab, Fahed Abu-Diab 
(Source: Louisville Metro Corrections)

Kentucky Derby-goer from Canada murdered when returning to hotel after racePosted: May 04, 2015 10:29 AM EDT
Updated: May 04, 2015 5:59 PM EDT
By Emily Mieure

April 8, 2015

Tour Buses Idling, Illegal Parking




These are images of one bus from one company, on two occasions, that runs tours to Cambridge and to Harvard University. It is not the only bus line that parks at the location and annoys residents at the location. On Wednesday April 8, 2015 beginning at about 2:40 PM a tour bus from Cape Destinations, bus number 954, was parked on the north side of Broadway between Quincy and Prescott Streets. Its motor was running causing exhaust fumes to come into nearby apartments. There are 15 residential units facing that segment of Broadway. This is a recurring inconvenience. Drivers may stop to check directions. But these are tour buses parked in a No Stopping Zone, idling (a state law violation), and waiting for their passengers to return. If I call the police dispatcher, by the time an officer arrives the bus leaves. But this time the bus fumes were extremely annoying, and unhealthy. 

I called to the dispatcher at 2:45 PM. He said he would send an officer. I do not know if an officer was dispatched but the bus left at 3:04 PM. Now that the snow has ended there will be more of these buses visiting Harvard and Cambridge. There used to be designated parking places along Mass Avenue from Quincy Street to Harvard Square. Automobile parking meters were replaced in that area. In this case it was the same bus, from the same company on two occasions. It appears to be one clueless and/or lawless driver. There are dozens of tour buses arriving in Cambridge and Harvard each day every day from many other states and Canada. Only this one demands his own staging area.

March 31, 2015


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October 27, 2014

San Francisco Tour Guide In Chinatown Expresses Hatred For Chinese




[From article]
The video, posted on YouTube Tuesday by a German tourist, shows the unnamed guide ripping into Chinatown, named by the American Planning Association as one of America's top "Great Neighborhoods" in 2013.
The woman, who says she is originally from Los Angeles, shouts through a microphone to the tourists, saying things like, “f**k Chinatown. F**k your little herb gardens. F**k your little seafood f**king markets and your turtles and your frogs. F**k your f**king ginseng. F**k your little hair salons where no one in there knows how to speak English!”
She spares nothing about the Chinese culture, from its jade that "no one wears anymore" to its crowded streets to its parades and dragons.

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2014/10/23/guide-goes-on-racist-rant-to-tourists-aboard-san-francisco-chinatown-bus/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Guide goes on a racist rant to tourists on a San Francisco Chinatown bus
Published October 23, 2014

November 2, 2013

Asian Tourists At Harvard University


[From article]
In the few months that I’ve been on campus so far, I’ve heard a myriad of both legitimate and trivial complaints about Asian tourists, and even some comments that border on downright racism.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/10/28/respect-asian-tourists-humanity/

Respecting the Basic Humanity of Asian Tourists
By YINGYING SHANG
October 27, 20134
Harvard Crimson

September 16, 2013

The Chiness Cigarette Thrower





Leaving my apartment on Monday September 16, 2013 at about 3:30 PM to do errands, I saw a group of about 15 Chinese people. At first I thought they were Harvard University students traveling in packs as they are encouraged to do in the dangerous city of Cambridge MA. As I approached the corner two men from the group stopped and were talking. They stood next to a blue USPS mail drop box. One of the men was pointing to it. Was this a special sight for them? Did they not have drop boxes in China?

One of the men was smoking a cigarette. He put the cigarette out, but it still had a lit ash, in the platform of the drop box. Then the other man opened the door to the drop box and the smoker put the still lit cigarette into the mail box. I was shocked, and angry. I am one of those dinosaurs who still send letters and cards to friends and relatives. I use the USPS to deliver my rent check too.

I stopped to ask the man why he did that. As foreigners often do when uncomfortable,  he pretended not to understand. When visitors or illegal aliens are confronted with wrongdoing they pretend they do not speak English. Convenient. It is one of the many reasons why police do not arrest and detain illegal aliens when they are found breaking laws. Citizens? No problem. They are arrested charged and brought to court when they violate the laws. Howie Carr often rants on his show "Just treat me like an illegal alien." He is on to something for sure.



After I told the Chinese visitor what I thought of his putting a cigarette in the drop box, I went on my way. The two men hurried along to catch up to their group. I finished my errands in Harvard Square and went to the main branch of the library to return a book. I saw the group of Chinese visitors in the meeting room in front of the new library building. I returned my book. Then I saw the two men who put the cigarette in the mail box. I was going to leave, but thought I'd ask one of the reference librarians what he thought about the incident. Did he think it was important enough to call the local police?




Meeting Room At Cambridge Public Library

I waited while he was on the phone answering questions. The group of Chinese visitors came out from the meeting room and was led by no less than the Library Director Susan Flannery. She actually waved at me and said hello. I wondered what was up. Was she planning to have me arrested? I mean, that woman, one of many prominent lesbians in leadership positions in Cambridge, usually shuns me. When I was making a video of the opening of the new library she hid behind others when I tried to capture her image.

So I asked her, "Are you talking to me?" She nodded and smiled. I said "One of your visitors put a lit cigarette into a mail box near my house." She did not respond. One lady who appeared to be the Chinese tour group leader came over to me trying to be friendly. I told her the same thing. I pointed out the two men.


Susan Flannery, Cambridge Library Director

I was still waiting to get the reaction from the reference librarian who was still on the phone. An American woman who was some sort of liaison for the group came over to me and said, "Excuse me. We are doing a tour here." I said "One of your tourists put a lit cigarette into a mail box." 

I added, "We have enough trouble here. We do not need tourists like that." When the librarian got off the phone I asked if I could get his reaction. He was angry and said to me. "No. You can't get my reaction. I am a professional librarian, and can give you information."

I did not know if he was angry with me waiting to talk with him, or if he was just angry at his life situation. I said "You are doing a tour."

He said, "I'm not doing a tour."

I said, "The library is doing a tour. One of the tourists put a lit cigarette into the mail box near my house."

He asked, "Which mail box."   

I said, "The one near my house."

I added, "But since you are a professional librarian, you are unable to answer my question which is not part of your job."

The Chinese lady tour guide tried a second time to apologize for the behavior of one of her tourists. I repeated my thoughts, "We have enough trouble here. We don't need any more." I left the library and went home.

I know why the local police, five crime families, Harvard University campus cops, Communists and  FBI informants take turns harassing me every day. In Cambridge where Harvard University runs the state and local government, laws are optional. It is up to the President and Fellows of Harvard College whether they are to be enforced or not. In this case a Chinese tourist was probably praised for putting a lit cigarette into the mail box. Who uses snail mail these days? Certainly none of the elitists at Harvard University who all have hand held wireless devices.

Moreover the Chinese government is the major creditor nation of the US government which is run by a genius educated at Harvard Law School.  Wouldn't want to create an international incident over a lit cigarette.

April 1, 2013

Tourists Stay at NYC Shelters, Praise Their Ambiance










The Occupy protesters should have stayed at City shelters.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/thank_you_very_mooch_nyc_Pkq1Mu9t1Svh7u9jZDAf5N

Thank you very mooch, NYC!
Out-of-towners live large at free shelters
New York Post
By DANA SAUCHELLI and DAN MACLEOD
Last Updated: 11:19 AM, April 1, 2013
Posted: 1:21 AM, April 1, 2013

March 2, 2013

Tourist Attacked in Times Square NYC


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286841/Times-Square-attack-Tourist-left-bloody-street-attacked-crazy-woman.html

The shocking moment female tourist is left bloody and distraught after being brutally attacked by woman who blocked her path in Times Square
Attack occurred at bustling intersection
Victim, 34, was bleeding profusely after hitting her head on the pavement
Suspect, 30, was charged with assault and cops had no idea why she allegedly shoved her
Deanne Ostbye was smiling while being arrested and shouting 'Freedom of Speech' for no apparent reason
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 18:57 EST, 1 March 2013 | UPDATED: 11:44 EST, 2 March 2013

October 16, 2012

Detroit Police Tell Tourists To Stay Away

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/10/06/enter-at-your-own-risk-police-union-says-war-like-detroit-is-unsafe-for-visitors/

Enter At Your Own Risk: Police Union Says
‘War-Like’ Detroit Is Unsafe For Visitors
October 6, 2012 11:57 AM
CBS News Detroit MI

January 15, 2012

Bloomberg Slanders Law Abiding Woman Tourist

[From article]
"Meredith Graves, the Tennessee nurse who, upon visiting the 9/11 memorial in New York and seeing the signs forbidding firearms, asked the staff if she could check her pistol (lawful and licensed in her home state). She was handcuffed, arrested, and now faces three and a half years in jail for firearms possession – for the crime of being unaware that the Second Amendment does not apply in New York City.
Asked about the case, New York’s thuggish mayor decided to add insult to injury:
Let’s assume that she didn’t get arrested for carrying a gun. She probably would have gotten arrested for the cocaine that was in her pocket.
There was no cocaine."

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

Bloomberg’s Law
By Mark Steyn
January 13, 2012 9:15 P.M

December 29, 2011

Mindless Liberals and Gun Laws

If Bloomberg and the five DAs crusade against illegal guns why is this law abiding woman being held? This is a legal gun. She was not in New York to sell it, or to commit a crime. More examples of the idiocracy of mindless liberals on gun control. Bloomberg should thank her for bringing her gun to New York where she might even prevent some street crime.

[From article]
"Mayor Bloomberg, with the help of the five district attorneys, has crusaded against the flow of illegal guns, especially from the South."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/pistol_whipped_at_wtc_1x32hgT52UNhxkP36ZYAgJ

Tennessee tourist arrested for bringing pistol into 9/11 Memorial
By JAMIE SCHRAM, C.J. SULLIVAN and DAREH GREGORIAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:01 AM, December 29, 2011
Posted: 1:43 AM, December 29, 2011

October 17, 2011

German Tourist Maybe Eaten by Cannibals

[From article]
"The tour guide is believed to have taken Mr Ramin on a hunting trip last weekend before he allegedly lured his wife into a remote area and tried to sexually assault her.
Mrs Ramin told police the tour guide tied her to a tree, but she escaped and notified authorities.
Police fear Mr Ramin, from Hamburg, could have been attacked by cannibals and then eaten."

Stefan Ramin, 40, and wife Heike Dorsch, 37
Stefan Ramin, 40, and wife Heike Dorsch, 37

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8361194/missing-tourist-feared-eaten-by-cannibals

Missing tourist 'feared eaten by cannibals'
12:00 AEST Mon Oct 17 2011
ago
By ninemsn staff

June 7, 2011

TSA Abuses British Cruise Visitors

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8559732/Cruise-passengers-tell-of-seven-hour-security-revenge-nightmare.html

Cruise passengers tell of seven-hour security 'revenge' nightmare
Elderly passengers on board a luxury cruise have criticised US immigration officials after they endured a seven-hour security check.
By Andy Bloxham, and John Bingham
Telegraph (UK)
6:45AM BST 07 Jun 2011