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The same exists in Belgium for about a year or so where it's called a "GAS boete" (Gemeentelijke administratieve sanctie ~= muncipial administrative sanction).
by resurge 13y ago
The same exists in Belgium for about a year or so where it's called a "GAS boete" (Gemeentelijke administratieve sanctie ~= muncipial administrative sanction).
They have been the subject of a lot of dismay among people because they're often used for the wrong thing.
Some stupid reasons to get a GAS fine are:
- Eating a sandwich on the porch of a church
- Posting negative comments about the police on a news website
- Kids can't play football when the pidgeon herders (? - NL: duivenmelker) are managing their pidgeons.
- sitting on the back part of a bench
- Putting garbage from your car in to a public trash can. (yes, IN TO the trash can, not next to it)
It was seen as illegal dumping of trash (NL: sluikstorten)
Source: http://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/top-100-van-de-absurdste-gas-boetes-een-klucht-zonder-weerga/article-opinion-120656.html http://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/top-100-van-de-absurdste-g...
- knapp 13y ago"duivenmelker" in English (at least British English) would be "pigeon fancier". http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pigeon-fancier http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pigeon-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_fancier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_fancier
- bayesianhorse 13y agoTo a German ear it sounds like pigeon milker... I actually don't fancy this sport or hobby. You just have to pay attention the "feral" pigeons running about in the cities. Many of them have exactly one crippled leg, where their band originally was. After the pigeon doesn't return home, this thing cuts into the leg over time and in a slow and painful process the leg falls off...
- mercer 13y agopigeon milker would be the translation in Dutch, but perhaps it has a special meaning in Flemish...
- knapp 13y ago"Pigeon milk" does exist: it is a type of crop milk, the regurgitated lining that parent birds feed to their young. But "pigeon milker" as pigeon fancier instead is a copy of the Dutch word for nightjar ("geitenmelker"), according to NL Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duivenmelk https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duivenmelk Nightjars were known once as goatsuckers in English because it was believed they sucked milk from goats. So it seems it is just a play on words. I am not Dutch, though.