Customs officers at the Lesovo border crossing point seized Sunday a contraband shipment of 488 antique coins, jewellery, and edged weapons, according to the Bulgarian Customs Agency's press office. The antiques were being transported on a jeep with a Bulgarian registration plate entering the country from Turkey. http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=142466
Hmm. From that article: "The customs officers found two nylon bags of patinated coins in the front right seat of the car. The driver had two other bags of antique objects hidden in his clothes." Well, if you try to smuggle, you risk getting caught ... Christian
Probably not a typo, but keep in mind that we often use the comma where you use the point, and vice versa. So "1,745 kg" could be one thousand seven hundred and forty-five kilos -- but in much of Europe it's one kilo and 745 grams. Christian
Thanks. That's cool to know. I thought that Jeep would be riding really low with that much weight on board.
I agree with Christian. While I would disagree with their country's law if I were Bulgarian, I believe every nation has the right to pass and enforce their own laws. If this were illegal in Bulgaria they have every right to enforce their own laws.
Although Ripley has a point too: Corruption is definitely an issue, and also coins that "disappear" from Bulgarian archeological sites, even museums. Christian
Not absurd at all. In a basically democratic country, if you disagree with the law in one way or another, deliberately breaking the law is not your only option ... Christian
I know of no democratic country where the majority of people obey the law. Nor do I know any country, democratic or otherwise, that has even remotely fair laws. I can't even get people to stop touching 400 year old masterpieces hanging on walls.
Don't really disagree with that but I still don't quite understand what is so "absurd" about the concept ... Christian
Hard to discuss without getting into specific politial issues. Democracy does not guarantee good law of mass participation.
Nothing new.... I dont know what they teach you guys in school about communism but Bulgaria was better of with it and you can argue all you want but i have seen and witnessed it. Democracy just destroyed what once was a beautiful place to live. You had a job to go to, house to live in, free education and many other things. Now? Well, lets just say none of that exsists. Hance why the population of the country has decreased from 10mil to about 6.9 in 20 years or so... Makes me sad everytime i go on a holiday watching the country being robbed and there is nothing you can do about it.
So who has the right to pass and enforce laws in Bulgaria then Ruben? Does the US, Russia, or Germany have this right then? Theoretically everyone in Bulgaria has a say in laws passed there, so I am simply saying every country has the right to live the way they see fit, absent "war crime" levels of breaking international law that is.
