Does the radiation only affect wild pigs, or are any other wild animals affected to the same extent?

I'm sure this dioxin scandal is worse than any radioactive wild pigs.

Next random topic: what is your favorite way to prepare Pfifferlinge?

Hello European friends. I guess I kinda belong in this hometown forum. (Unless you ask Sarkozy )

Helau, Kölle Alaaf und gute Stimmung zum Rosenmontag! De Zoch kütt.

I was thinking of such a thing myself, creating something like a Wiki.
With our recent Dutch shooting were hopefuly be 'lucky' (and I realy dont mean lucky in any sort of way) that the guy was commited into mental institution and that something went wrong with the communication after that. I also know that there will be a next time and that we have to educate our fellow shooters and public not to blame a single group of guns they happen not to enjoy (we have had them here already "no place in shooting sports for EBR's" etc)

There seems to be some scientific evidence of a link with certain anti psycotic drugs, a professor I have been in contact with describes it like this (in very short version):

Very depressed people in the past who wanted to end it all/do something terrible were mostly so completly disfunctional that they were unable to acually get up and do it, with the advent of (modern) medication a small percentage of these people have enough energy/drive to do something while the drugs have no effect on curbing their violent impulses (the medicines do not effect all people in predictible ways). I have to ad that I know nothing about medicine so my description maybe complely off.
Another factor might be the trend to treat mental patients in the community rather that the traditional mental institutions.

so Mike or Tony (or any other members in Bavaria or Austria)... have you ever explored any Erdställe? some of those seem they would be fascinating to crawl into and explore, as I always enjoyed spelunking as a kid growing up in the state with the most caves...

any chance some of those underground tunnel networks were related to weapons caches (possibly similar to Heinz Lembke's "massive connected arsenal of 33 underground arms caches", purportedly related to Operation Gladio)? as a boy, I remember my Greek cousin telling me of huge caches of left-over WWII weapons bunkered in the mountains of Greece...

You may (or may not) be surprised, Tony, at all the things still lying in the Hürtgenwald left over from WWII; one does not have to dig at all to still find field batteries and cables and communication lines, artillery shells, en bloc M1 Garand clips with .30-06 cartridges still intact, ink bottles, boots, gas masks, and many other articles, all in various states of condition from very corroded to surprisingly unscathed. And knowing how the fighting progressed and the lines shifted back and forth ((and the difference between how the U.S. Army and the Wehrmacht soldiers dug their respective foxholes), one can still to this day see where the trenches and foxholes and other emplacements were dug, as they have only now slowly filled in over the decades.

There are many grave robbers around that dig for the old celtic settlements in this area....

My house is on the old Messerschmitt premises, we have a forest adjacent and once in a while people find WW2 stuff there. There used to be several bunkers also, but I think they all were filled up with soil and concrete after the war.

I think there is still alot of stuff in the mountain lakes, like Walchensee. A friend of mine, diver on the FD here in Munich, found a .30M1 carbine in a lake close to Salzburg. He found way more than that, but left it underwater since he is not an EOD guy. The rifle is mine now...




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Clean socks and the carpets cool to .

Only kidding, nice rifle, even had it in my hands while I was visiting you.

Tony

so Boomerang Beach on Strandweg in Scheveningen (near The Hague)?