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[Urwumpe]

One German hero has a name now: Thomas Salbey was the bagger driver, who shouted insults and an empty bottle of beer against the spree killer last friday, confusing him and dragging him into a short discussion, that possibly helped saving lives by buying time for the police. Many de-escalation experts and psychologists are applauding right now, because he unknowingly did everything right in that situation by forcing the attacker into an unexpected situation and out of his berserker rage.

 

[Linguofreak]

One German hero has a name now: Thomas Salbey was the bagger driver, who shouted insults and an empty bottle of beer against the spree killer last friday, confusing him and dragging him into a short discussion, that possibly helped saving lives by buying time for the police. Many de-escalation experts and psychologists are applauding right now, because he unknowingly did everything right in that situation by forcing the attacker into an unexpected situation and out of his berserker rage.

"Bagger"? I forget which piece of construction equipment that refers to.

 

[Urwumpe]

"Bagger"? I forget which piece of construction equipment that refers to.

"excavator" is the more common term, I had seen the Germanic "Bagger" getting used quite often in English language, I thought it is in widespread use.

More specific would be "link-belt excavator". Alternative would be digger.

 

[Fabri91]

Could it be like "handy" when referring to a cell phone? Sound English, but it isn't.

 

[Notebook]

I've never heard "bagger" in connection with equipment, not even sure its a proper phrase.
Could it be a corruption of "back-act(k)or?

 

[Urwumpe]

Could it be like "handy" when referring to a cell phone? Sound English, but it isn't.

Well, its more like Kindergarten or Rucksack. Handy is real German insanity.

"Bagger" comes from the verb baggern, which is based on the low saxon word "bagger" = "Mud, dirt"

 

[Andy44]

Interesting. In the US, a "bagger" is the guy at the grocery store who puts all your goods into bags for you carry out to your car.

 

[mojoey]

And with the way most of them put things in grocery bags, the shoveling definition isn't far off.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p041fdj2


Clip from BBC travel show, don't know if it will get out the UK.

N.

Fun place to visit, and a movie star, too... Star Trek: First Contact filmed the scenes with the Phoenix in the silo.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

"excavator" is the more common term, I had seen the Germanic "Bagger" getting used quite often in English language, I thought it is in widespread use.

More specific would be "link-belt excavator". Alternative would be digger.

Like this? I was under the assumption that "Bagger" was a proper name, not a noun referring to a piece of equipment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288

Though Wikipedia does offer "Excavator" as a translation for "Bagger". Live and learn.

 

[Urwumpe]

Two major crimes in Germany, both committed by young Syrian refugees, both with some lot of strangeness attached.

A 21 year old killed a 45 year old Polish woman with a machete in Reutlingen after a dispute, the police is investigating a relation crime there. The police can't ask the attacker right now, he was rammed intentionally by a 21 year old BMW driver who witnessed the killing, but he was caught alive. The murderer has a lengthy police history of bodily harm, theft and drug crimes. The victim worked together with the criminal in a Turkish diner. The murderer arrived in Germany one year ago.

A 27 year old Syrian suicide bomber killed himself and injured 12 others at the entrance to a small festival near Nuremberg. The number of victims could maybe have been much higher, he was refused entry to the festival because he had no ticket for it. He already was in psychological treatment and had two former suicide attempts in his biography. His application for asylum was rejected, which is uncommon for Syrians, the reason for the rejection is investigated right now.

A 16 year old friend of the spree killer of Munich was arrested yesterday for having knowledge of a planned major crime without reporting it to the police. The law behind this arrest is pretty special and restricted to only a few types of major crimes, it is not used very often. Looks like the spree killer was really obsessed with other spree killings, he even travelled to Winnenden and took pictures there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnenden_school_shooting

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The suicide bomber of Ansbach near Nuremberg was supposed to be send back to Bulgaria soon, because of EU treaty weirdness.

 

[steph]

It's like 100 degF in the DC area this weekend, and as the morning progresses the humidity is getting stupid high as well. I know a lot of people hate winter, but I love it. I'll take wearing a nice wool coat over sweating and mosquitos any day. Right now you can't walk from your front door to your car without feeling gross.

Absolutely. Give me cold, humid air with that "fresh" smell anytime over heat. Same thing here...warm, humid air. Tried to go running a few times, but after a few minutes, the body just goes into safe mode and I end up in a slow trudge for the rest of the trail.

 

[Urwumpe]

Absolutely. Give me cold, humid air with that "fresh" smell anytime over heat. Same thing here...warm, humid air. Tried to go running a few times, but after a few minutes, the body just goes into safe mode and I end up in a slow trudge for the rest of the trail.

Well, I prefer hot climates. In my younger years, I had been running 10 km even on the hottest days of the summer... now I pause on such days because the switch from ice cold to steaming hot happens pretty rapidly now.

 

[Fabri91]

Doing my first proper exploration trip in Elite: Dangerous.

Man, space is big.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. - - - (we all know who, don't we) :thumbup:

Speaking of, I was pretty thrilled to hear that BBC America will be broadcasting Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

 

[Spacethingy]

Another one for the "What The Heck Is That?!" file:

Yes, that IS a DC3 with a turboprop stuffed into its nose. AKA a Conroy Tri-Turbo-Three. Is that brilliance or sacrilege? I'm not quite sure... :lol:

 

[Andy44]

The DC-3 has certainly turned out to be quite a survivor, so many are still in service after all these decades.

 

[APDAF]

The only replacement for a DC-3 is a DC-3

 

[MaverickSawyer]

The only replacement for a DC-3 is a DC-3

Likewise, "When the last C-17 is flown to the Boneyard, the crew will fly home on a C-130."

 

[Andy44]

Likewise, "When the last C-17 is flown to the Boneyard, the crew will fly home on a C-130."

And when the last C-130 hits the boneyard, that crew will fly home in a DC-3 (C-47 in USAF parlance), which by that time will be about 150 years old or more. :lol: