November 14, 2005
watch out for the cyclists
It's happenning again. Liquidated gangsters are littering the streets of Amsterdam and the dangers of cycling have scaled new heights as bullets fly and corpses straddle the bicycle paths like soft-and-lumpy-speed-humps.
OK. I am exagerating. But Amsterdam IS sufferring another of those underworld clean-outs we seem to have so regularly. And the dead are never johnny-average criminals but always the elite, the CEO's and MDs of the underworld. There are two things that strike one about this.
1.For a town with a population of less than 1 million people the proportion of underworld bosses seems staggeringly high. And thats just the dead ones.
2.The Dutch underworld must surely be suffering some sort of leadership crisis by now? All those middle-managers thrust prematurely to the ranks of leadership?
And the only thing cuter than the tours that enable tourists to take in the new murder-sites are the murders that are committed from a bicycle. So Amsterdam.
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