Western Culture comes to Latvia

Football fans' initiation into adulthood:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6164119.stm

Stag parties warned of Riga scam

British men on stag nights in Latvia are being lured into strip bars before being beaten up and forced to hand over cash, the British embassy has warned.

Officials in the Latvian capital Riga say men are being enticed into the bars with the promise of free alcohol.

They are then prevented from leaving by those running the scam until a large bill has been settled.

The British embassy in Riga is warning those visiting the city of the scam and has contacted the local authorities.

One victim told the BBC his group had been forced to hand over £3,000 after they were lured into a bar and then beaten up.



Another story with one line paragraphs. The BBC must read the DU rules.:evilgrin:

tends to warp that concept.

:evilgrin:

A noted source of irritation in defeated Germany.

Back to our father's father's father's time.

Sheesh. ;)

:sarcasm: :evilgrin:

MoD turns town into SAS Cadet Academy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1968195,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=11

Britain's official 'yob capital' turns its back on Asbos


A report this week revealed that half of people in Corby fear anti-social behaviour. What has gone wrong in the former steel town?

Patrick Barkham
Saturday December 9, 2006
The Guardian

With a metallic tinkle, a discarded can of Irn Bru is rolled by the wind along the pockmarked road outside the Arran community centre. Sheet metal is stapled over the windows of derelict flats nearby.

Corby in Northamptonshire has been branded the yob capital of an increasingly yobbish country. Nearly 49% of those living in the former steel town say antisocial behaviour is a big or fairly big problem, according to figures released by the National Audit Office this week.

First you talk about football fans, when they don't appear in the first story; now you're on about the MoD and SAS, neither of which have anything to do with your second story. Are you just introducing random phrases associated with Britain?

is the common thread

...and I wouldn't call stag parties "culture"...