A fantastic post was on Boing Boing today explaining that the US Embassy owes the city of London £1,484,765 (roughly over 2.5 million USD) in unpaid traffic violation fines. Fucking amazing. Now, I understand that these charges were probably racked up over decades, but, just but, I would like to think that it all happened in the span of a few days.
Just imagine the US Ambassador Robert Tuttle looking over at his driver and saying, "Todd, you know what would fucking rock? If we got some more tall-boys and went cruising for some hot-British-tang. Hey dude, did you know you can drink at the age of 18 over here? Fucking sweet, right?
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I like contrasting this with the story FOX NEWS! did on all those silly Nigerian and Egyptian UN envoys who refused to pay parking tickets in NYC.
Key quote from an apologetic Pakistani, vowing to pay more promptly: "In the pre-9/11 era, there was a different understanding of diplomatic privileges."
Maybe this holds true for America, with the effect of course being the opposite.
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