1st June 2019 Only in Denmark!!

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Saturday 1st June. 57-62F and grey again. The trees are moving to renewed, westerly wind. Some sun is promised and a possible 70F/20C. It didn't. A walk to the lanes. It is that time of year when the myriad grasses are all showing off their differences. 

In breaking, Danish National TV, video news: A large, star-like sculpture has been damaged by a fat, naked, presumably male swimmer. It had been put on display over a Danish lake near a festival ground. It is hoped the sculpture can be repaired. Perhaps the sculptor should make allowances for obese vandals in his next design effort?

In another, rather warmer, video news story:  A lady cyclist and a young man stop the traffic to help a family of swans cross a busy main road.  The traffic stops and waits patiently while the pair of swans and offspring waddle across the four lanes.

Right at the end of video a car can be seen illegally using the raised cycle path to pass the stalled traffic queue. I wonder whether the police will be interested in such blatantly criminal behaviour? It is certain that many thousands of Danish viewers will be asking exactly the same question. BUT! What is far, far, far, far more likely is that both video camera owners will now be investigated and prosecuted for publicly sharing images of a crime being committed. Only in Denmark!! Or Russia? Or China?

NOTE: Tempting as it might be, I dare not link to either of these newsworthy videos. Because I would then be guilty of sharing images of crimes being enacted. Which would be against the absolute right to total privacy of all criminals in action in Denmark. [Including mass murdering terrorists.] The national TV stations are [apparently] immune from such prosecution.

Fortunately, I still didn't have a dashcam fitted when I trailered yet more bulky hedge clippings to the recycling yard. The car in front of me was weaving erratically,  back and forth across the village high street until it met the de-restriction signs and left me far behind. Later, the same driver had parked on the brow of a "blind" hump of the main road "protected" by central, double white lines. He had climbed out and was looking in the back of his car. While standing on the offside in the middle of the road with the rear door wide open. I might have suggested he was looking for more beer but I don't like to be accused of generalization.

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