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I just found this video a couple of minutes ago about a crash of a plane in St Bart’s airport, in the Caribbean. It happened yesterday. The pilot should have made a “touch & go”, as he was coming in at a far too high speed. I wonder where he got his license?

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The boss of a Madison Avenue advertising agency called a spontaneous staff meeting in the middle of a particularly stressful week. Apparently, this is one pretty sharp boss! When everyone gathered, the boss who understood the benefits of having fun, told the burnt out staff the purpose of the meeting was to have a quick contest. The Theme: Viagra advertising slogans… The only rule was they had to use past ad slogans, originally written for other products that captured the essence of Viagra. Slight variations were acceptable.

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Astronauts? Cosmonauts? Negronauts? How shall we call them? Since recently, the Democratic Republic of Congo has its own space program, or at least, that’s what they call it. A couple of months ago, Congo launched the “Troposphère V”, the third rocket that should have gone into the orbit. The rocket is higher, heavier and more powerful than all its predecessors, and it should be going up to 36 kilometers into space at the speed of Mach 3, which is three times the speed of sound.

They also launched the first Congolese living creature, a rat. At least, that was the intention. How it all worked out in practise can be seen in the clip below here… The rocket didn’t go off into the right direction, but they really considered it a “giant leap in their technology”…

It must be said, the Congolese people remain very, very optimistic!

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It still strikes me to see how many really stupid people are around. Being a Belgian living abroad, I am always interested to read what is going on in my home country. I hardly ever watch television, but due to the internet, I am keeping in touch with the homeland. On July 23rd, a bunch of real stupid people have caused a lot of nightmares for some of the Belgian politicians. That day, a young Belgian woman Lesley Deckers, together with her “boyfriend” Lahoucine El Haddouchi (originally from Marocco) board a helicopter to see Bruges from the air.

While approaching Bruges, the boyfriend gets a gun and tells the pilot to land the helicopter inside one of the biggest Belgian prisons, in order to free three Maroccan “friends”, Ashraf Sekkaki, Abdelhaq Melloul Khayari and the real boyfriend of the girl, Mohammed Johri. These three guys jump on board, but apparently the helicopter is overloaded, so they kick out the guy who hijacked the helicopter, Lahoucine El Haddouchi. Asshole number one has bought himself a one way ticket to jail, and is now risking a sentence of twenty years for hijacking a helicopter and taking the pilot hostage.

The three crooks and the girl fly away, they steal a car, commit four bank robberies in order to get some cash, go undercover in an Amsterdam hotel, and after one week, they decide to go to their home country, Marocco. On their way to Marocco, Abdelhaq Melloul Khayari is spotted by Paris police, succeeds in running again, but gets arrested in Brussels a couple of days later. He can consider himself as the lucky one, as he is now back in a Belgian cell.

The other two finally make it to Marocco, only to get arrested over there. Johri got arrested some time last week, and Sekkaki, being considered as the most dangerous of the trio, got arrested last weekend. The good news is that they have been arrested in Marocco, and having the Maroccan nationality, they will not be handed over to Belgian justice, but they will be trialled in Marocco. They will be charged with hijacking a helicopter, taking hostage a pilot, stealing a car, four bank robberies, and undoubtedly, another couple of things. They are risking at least twenty years in a Maroccan prison, which cannot be compared with the luxury of a Belgian cellblock. I honestly believe they are back where they really belong.

In the meantime, the girl is still missing. Belgian police think she is still alive, but I can only imagine what this girl has gone through. Having been on the run with three criminals who had been put away for several years without having had contact with a woman…

In Belgium, they have the “law-Lejeune”, which makes it possible to get parolled after having served one third of the sentence. E.g. a life sentence in Belgium means that one usually gets out of prison after having served ten to twelve years. Johri only had to serve three more years in the luxury of a Belgian cell in order to be a free man again. In Marocco, no such thing exists. Twenty years in prison means… twenty years in prison. In Belgium, big criminals are usually hold in a cell alone. They have television, they have a bed, they have the possibility to exercise, they are allowed a one hour walk in the open air. No such things in Marocco. Each prisoner in Marocco has on average three square meters of space. They are thrown in one room, thirty, forty, fifty prisoners, all together, with only a hole in the ground to relieve themselves…

Medieval circumstances. But isn’t this what most Muslims want? Don’t they want to take this world back into the middle ages?

Anyway, these stupid people have really made some wrong choices. Although the year is not over yet, they  have already deserved the title of “asshole of the year 2009″. I found the clip below on YouTube. It gives a nice view on what these assholes can expect for the next twenty odd years of their lives…

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