goddamn foreigners
Are Foreigners Hungary's Demographic Savior, or Just a Bunch of Chainsaw-Wielding, Cat-Shooting Maniacs?
As the always-exciting March 15th holiday approaches, many of Hungary's resident foreigners will probably be planning to get out of town, both to take advantage of a three-day weekend, and also to get away from the inevitable crowds of foreigner-hating nationalists that flock to the streets each year. But this year may be different, because the same dirty külföldiek the Hungaristas love to hate may now be the only thing saving the country from demographic oblivion. Really! According to some new data from the Central Statistics Office (KSH), Hungary's population is expected to dip below 10 million sometime in June, after being clocked at only 10.013 million on January 1 of this year. Until the 1980s, the country's population was growing, then it started dropping fast, and, as tabloid Blikk explains, the only thing that has kept us in the eight-digit population club is all the foreigners who inexplicably keep moving here. And in other foreigner news:
- A foreign student was fined by national railways MÁV for traveling with a student ticket on December 25. A Hungarian passenger who helped out the perplexed student by paying their fine wrote to consumer blog Homár says that the woman's foreign student ID had been accepted by the MÁV cashier who sold her a student ticket, but then the ticket inspector said her IDs did not give her a right to buy a student ticket in Hungary and issued her a fine anyway. The Hungarian Samaritan also noted that his own Hungarian student ID had previously been accepted in nearly every countries where he has traveled. [homar.blog.hu]
- A Romanian man attacked a ticket inspector with a chainsaw on a train traveling on the Budapest-Szombathely route last Monday. The Romanian had been traveling without a ticket, and when the inspector told him he had to buy one, the man got angry, started the chainsaw he was carrying and threatened the inspector with it. The police was called, and the man was removed from the train and taken into custody in Székesfehérvár. [rtlhirek.hu]
- That same day, several foreign students were apprehended by the Pécs police after they were accused of shooting at some local cats with an air gun. A downtown resident had alerted the authorities, saying "someone was firing shots at a bus stop." The suspects said they were only trying to scare the animal away; there was no ammunition in the gun when it was seized. [hvg.hu/velvet.hu]
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COMMENT!Why is it that Pécs comes up again and again with weapon-related incidents?
What is wrong with that town?
That Ricsi is living there can hardly be the only reason?
Am I the only one that over the last months has
noticed a lot of Ciganyok around the city selling
chainsaws?
Someone tried to sell me a brand new Stihl chainsaw a few weeks ago in our village - just the body, no sword and chain, probably taken from a dealer's showroom ...
"fined by national railways MÁV for traveling with a student ticket"
Memories... The same happened to me (almost) three years ago. I travel to Budapest once or twice a month and always used to travel by train with a first class ticket. On one occasion the ticket seller "forgot" to mark a seat number on my first class ticket - not that I had ever noticed or knew the significance of the number.. In some 4 years of travel the carriage was usually less than half full anyway and I always sat in an empty convenient seat.
(Actually now I think about it, I was asked to move once from my seat to another seat by the inspector -- must have been in the wrong seat according to my ticket - as I recall there were 3 other people in the carriage that day!)
Anyhow... One day, the ticket inspector (actually a gang of three) came through checking tickets. I happily handed mine over to be told it was not valid. They explained because the seat number was not written on. Two of the inspectors where happy that I had clearly purchased a full fare ticket and that a mistake of the ticket seller was not my mistake. The "old guy" - I guess the teacher! - he had other ideas. They huddled at the end of the carriage for 10 minutes talking about it, then came back and offered to sell me another ticket at the same price, or throw me off at the next stop.
The Hungarians sitting near me were all VERY shocked, the 2 trainee ticket inspectors where shocked --- but somehow I felt "oh well, this is Hungary". And THAT is a very sad thing.
So I paid the fine to the inspector (who I am certain was genuinely very proud of himself for collecting another fare) - and have never travelled by train since.
How about a simple soulution? By giving incentives for the current population to increase their fertility rates?
Instead of allowing foreigners (European, or otherwise) to disrupt Hungary with so called "cultural diversity".
Crazy thought eh?
Peclipse: Are you kidding? "The current population"? What the hell does that mean? Unless you shoot yourself out into outer space in a teeny tiny capsule, you are going to have EXPLOSIVE diversity from now on. Why? #1 Political intervention(s) #2 Laws which, in many cases, ONLY allow immigrants into a nation from areas of war. (non-white) #3 The world no longer sees color. Whether good or bad, your heritage, and all others, have been mixed into one big tub of Kefir. You can see the chunks, but for the most part, everything is the same. End of story...
