Drunken Belgian hits 220 on the A2

Two Royal Marechaussee officers on motorcycle arrested a motorcycle rider who was under the influence of alcohol and driving 220 km/hr on the A2 near Maastricht on Monday, the police reported on Tuesday.
The 30-year-old man from Liege was passing cars on the right and a breathalyser test showed he had twice the permitted level of alcohol in his blood.
The Belgian's motorcycle and driver's license were confiscated.

Coffee shops to fingerprint smokers

Coffee shops licensed to sell marijuana in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht will begin fingerprinting customers and scanning their IDs this summer, a spokesman for the shops said Wednesday. The measures are aimed at ensuring the rules of the Netherlands famed tolerance policy are not violated, which could lead to shops being closed, said Marc Josemans, chairman of the Union of Maastricht's Coffee Shops.

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A Day of Remembrance

Mary McHugh visited the grave of her fiancé, Sgt. James J. Regan, who was killed in Iraq in February. He is buried in the new Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery for those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He was a graduate of Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York and attended Duke University, where he played for the lacrosse team.
Regan was engaged and intended to go to graduate school. Friends and family said he could have had a career on Wall Street but decided to serve his country instead.

Click here if you need a virus

HELSINKI: Computer specialist Didier Stevens put up a simple text advertisement on the Internet offering downloads of a computer virus for people who did not have any.
Surprisingly, he found as many as 409 people clicking on the ad saying "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!" during a 6-month advertising campaign on Google's Adword, said the IT security expert.
"Some of them must have clicked on it by mistake. Some must have been curious or stupid," said Mikko Hypponen, head of research at data security firm F-Secure.
There was no virus involved, it was an experiment aiming to show these kind of advertising systems can be used for malicious intent, Stevens said.

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"Dilbeek police don't speak French"

More hilarity from our local language police. The local police in Dilbeek were called this weekend by a woman who reported that her mother had been struck several times during a domestic dispute.
When the officers arrived on the scene and ascertained that no one at the address spoke Dutch they left and told the victim to call another local police department.
No action was taken or report filed against the perpetrator who was on the scene as well.