Netherlands tramcar shooting
 

The police in Utrecht, Netherlands arrested a man today for shooting in a tramcar in town, killing three persons

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47615231

He was caught. The authorities don't think it was a terror related attack.

so it was personal?? Weird that it made national news if it was a personal vendetta.

Shooting people in a tram isn't exactly a common occurrence in The Netherlands or in most of Europe...

Now that is depressing :(

New meaning to "Watch the tram car please...watch the tram car please...watch the..." (Points if you know where to watch the tram car. Please.)


Anyway. What the hell, psycho.

Can we just euthanize humanity, I think we're done here. Done on Earth.

Just how many people from Jersey on this board? :lol:

I'm not, but a next state over and being small states means plenty of regional stuff is familiar. :trazz:

Right 'ere, Guv'na.

Y'know, ever since I moved out of Jamesburg, I've long forgotten what random gunfire at 3am sounds like. I guess that's good?

You mean the party poppers?! But that's part of Jersey's charm!

I went to school and worked in Camden. I owe my steely resolve to watching police standoffs since I was three years old.

When I was a mover, we had the contract to move the Newark school system.

Their elementary schools have a depressing amount of used needles and glass vials in the outside stairwells. Not that the high schools were any better. I guess just the fact that they were elementary schools put it over. Either way... yuck.

Yeah. The social problems that are screamingly apparent yet somehow still overlooked are overwhelming. The amount of effort it would take to fix some of those areas is beyond imagination.

Contrast that with the mcmansions not a twenty minute drive away, too. Jersey is a weird state to drive through.

Oh my gosh! That's horrible! :(

I feel so sorry for the victims' friends/families; my thoughts are with them at this time.

Hopefully, the assailant will suffer harsh repercussions for his despicable actions.

Even when it happens in the USA, it usually makes it to the international media no matter if it is a terrorist incident or not.

Hahaaaa, my whole street is a mix of humble little ranch-style homes with Jackass McMansions in between. :lol:

You really do get a little of everything over here.

How many American cities have a tram system, though? I can only think of San Francisco. Funny enough, SF is often compared to Lisbon. Both cities have trams, two very similar bridges and are both built on seven hills.

Those are trolleys, I thought. Is there a difference? The tram cars I know are just really crappy cars that do about 8-9kph.

I just want to chime in how much I greatly appreciate Prowler, as he has never to my knowledge misspoken the phrase "Funny Enough" as "Funnily Enough", despite it being a phrase he uses rather often and English may not even be his first language. I have so much admiration for that.

Because saying "Funnily Enough" is one of 73 Reasons I Will Cut A Bitch With No Explanation Or Warning. And I really like the guy, so it's great that I don't have to "correct" him in such fashion. But it's the only way people learn.

Thanks Prowler. Thanks for raising the bar. Sincerely.

Hmm dunno. Not an expert on the subject, I must say. Ours look like this:


We also have modern ones:


Anyway, trams here only go through the older historical parts of the city. They're mostly for tourists at this point. I think I've only ridden a tram in my city... once in my lifetime?

It's not my native language at all, no. My native language would be, as you might have guessed, Portuguese.

Now if only my German becomes as good as my English one day... one step at a time.

A lot of common grammatical and spelling mistakes in every language are way more common among native speakers than people who aren't native speakers.

I notice several native English speakers don't know how to use "your" and "you're" properly or "there" and "their". But those mistakes aren't so common among non-native English speakers who are highly fluent in the language, from my observation. Probably because when you're young and learning English in school you'll get yelled at by the teacher for not knowing when to use "your" or "you're" and "there" or "their", while native speakers don't think much about grammar rules and take their own language for granted.

a cheat in Norwegian is just write in your local dialect :lol:

That wouldn't work in my language. Ofc we have different accents and dialects, but we all write in the same manner regardless of what part of the country we come from. Brazilians do write differently, however Sometimes I have no clue what they're even saying. But their accents/dialects are also quite different from ours, so it makes sense their written Portuguese is different as well.

In German, writing in dialect is a thing too, btw.

speaking vs written Language is very different. Norwegian basically is a hodgepodge of dialects and some are so far out there it's like a completely different Language :lol:

Like the bordering municipality have their own very distinct dialects, not just county from county. Heck, the neighbor municipality my dad lives in use the other official written Language then the rest of the county, which is a more popular written Language further North of the country.

So basically, your language isn't very standardised? Our language, at least the European variety of it, is very standardised. Ofc there's some parts in the country where people have some rather thick accents, but they'll write just like anyone else, so it's not like you can tell where they're from through written text.

Then you have languages like German and Italian which have a lot of dialects. Not to mention Germany and Italy have some minority languages as well. hen again, Italy and Germany as we know them today are rather modern inventions, so it makes sense for their countries to have a lot of linguistic and dialectal variety.

only our written Language is standardised. We have Bokmål and Nynorsk (book speak and New norwegian) and Sami which isn't mandatory to know.

No one truly speaks bokmål cause that would sound stilted and unatural (although some People in Olso claims they speak bokmål which is BS) and nynorsk is just a Collection that was made early 1900, where some asshole just picked words that sounded "real Norwegian" and mixed it into a written Language casue bokmål looked too Danish, so it's a grammar mess.