How to rob a bank......Belgian Style

A local bank manager was given a three year suspended sentence for taking money from rich customers and distributing it to the poor. The manager of a Centea branch in Ghent stole almost €1 million from customers’ accounts and used it to give loans to people with financial difficulties, sometimes even digging into his own savings.

“I was naive,” said the modern day Robin Hood. “They abused my trust.” He was also fined €500 and ordered to pay €250,000 in compensation.

Another only in Belgium Story

The two Ukrainian brothers who killed Ghent student Simon Wijffels by stabbing him to death, have left the country with their family, on an all expense paid vacation (including €250 spending money each) by the Belgian Government......a month before their trial was to start.

The family was here illegally (what a shock) and had been in the process of being deported already, when the stabbing occured. The Belgian government pays for anyone who will leave voluntarily, so Mommy and Daddy just waited until little Junior 1 and Junior 2 were released from jail.....and said we'll take our tickets now please. They just forgot to mention that little murder trial coming up. And you wonder why it takes you two years to get a passport here.

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Drunk truck driver spoils holiday fun

The first sunny day of the summer encouraged many Flemings to head for the coast on Thursday, but the Brussels - Ostend motorway was closed from 7AM until 4PM due to an accident.

The truck driver was found to be over the drink drive limit. He zigzagged over the carriageway and crashed into the pillar of a bridge outside Ghent.
The truck that turned on its side was carrying 26,000 litres of hydrochloric acid.
The content needed to be transferred to another lorry before the motorway could be reopened.
At one point there was a 17 km tailback as a result of the accident. Red Cross workers handed out bottles of water to stranded drivers

Pissing game banned by Belgium police

In the land of the Mannekin Pis, how can this be true? A urinal-based racing game was making the rounds this summer. The one you drive with your whizz, and warns you against drunk driving if you're not controlling your car too well? Well the Belgium police didn't seem to find it too amusing, and have banned the "Place to Pee" version of the game installed at GamePower Expo in Gent, Belgium as an indecency offence.

I'm guessing that's much more important than trying to find ways to keep prisoners from breaking out of jail every week.

Steegmans wins Tour in Ghent

Belgium's Gert Steegmans on Monday won the second stage of this year's Tour de France cycling race. The Belgian was first in the bunch sprint in Ghent (East Flanders).
Steegmans finished just ahead of his team-mate Tom Boonen.
This was the somewhat bizarre end of the second stage. World champion Tom Boonen failed to get ahead of the rider who had been making the going for him for much of the race.Filippo Pozzato of Italy was third.Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara retains leader's yellow jersey.