herald.am, Friday 25 January 2008, page 8
[Priests plead for exemption after drink-drive crackdown
THE Catholic Church in hungary has asked the country's justice minister to exempt its priests from a new regulation which severly punishes drink-driving.
Under a "zero tolerance" rule which took effect this month, police can confiscate a driver's license on the spot if the breathalyser shows any trace of alcohol.
The Catholic Church says its priests celebrate mass daily and drinking sacramental wine is an essential part of the ceremony.
Due to a shortage of priests, many hold Masses is several villages a day.They also drive to funerals and when visiting the sick, church authorities wrote in a letter to the minister.
The church plans to issue special cards for its priests to show that they consume alcohol in the fulfilment of official duties.]
METRO Wednesday, January 23, 2008, page 2
[VIDEO YOBS
A TEENAGE gang that made a video of themselves robbing shops that ended up on national TV were caught after a rival gang saw the programme - and told olive whre to find them. The six Hungarian teens filmed themselves committing crimes in Budapest and had passed out copies, and police found the footage. They were each given five years in prison for theft and armed robbery.]
METRO Friday, January 25, 2008, page 4
[A Hungarian pensioner escaped without a scratch after falling in front of a speeding train in the middle of the rail tracks, so the train passed harmlessly over him.Zsolt Kovacs, 85, slipped while crossing the tracks in the town of Postye. Witnesses said once the train had gone, he calmly picked himself up and walked pff. Mr Kovacs said: 'I thought my time was up when I fell over. Iheard the roar of the train and closed my eyes, waiting to get crushed, but the next thing I knew, it was quiet again and I was still alive.']
METRO Friday, January 25, 2008, page 10
[HUNGARY: A Hungarian man caught masturbating while riding his bike down a busy street has been given a three-year suspended jail sentence and a fine. A court heard how Ferenc Balog, 61, had kept one hand on the handlebar while he used his other hand to masturbate - but had lost control when he climaxed and ploughed into a shop window in the town of Dombovar. He was fined €94 and given a three-year suspended sentence for indecent exposure.]
METRO Thursday, December 13, 2007, page 3
picture of Johnny Depp[Moved to make a movie: The bank robber's story has inspired Depp
Depp Hungary to film robber's life
JOHNNY DEPP wants to make a film about a legendary Hungarian bank robber who downed a shot of whiskey at the banks as he robbed them. Depp said he wanted to produce a film about Attila Ambrus, a former ice-hockey player who robbed banks across the country. He became a legend by drinking whiskey as he robbed banks; giving flowers to female bank clerks as he asked them to hand over the cash - and by spectacularly evading the police, in one case even jumping into the river Danube to flee from them. Ambrus is currently serving 15years in jail but Depp said he had recently read Ambrus's memoires and wanted to use them as basis for his film.]
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What do you expect to be written on waste paper? Real newspaper might have real news about Hungary.
It is wastage of time and of course wood for the paper to read these fish&chips paper.
I thought British yellow papers are the worst, but the Irish are trying hard to be close to the British. JDM
(PS: Sind die Ausschreibungsunterlagen bei dir und deinem Bruder angekommen? Bisher keine Bestätigung!)
Well, I don't expect anything else, still it's interesting how often Hungary comes up.sure these papers are only there to read them in the 30 minutes one spends on the train, but they are recycled afterwards.You are right, the article in the Irish independent on a weekend in budapest was definitely better, however the author stayed at the most expensive hotel.I only read these papers on a daily basis and the II on the weekends.
dana
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