Ruling Favors a 10-Inch Citizen of France
10th June 2011
France was punished on Thursday for not taking proper care of its hamsters.
The Court of Justice in Luxembourg, theEuropean Union’s highest court, ruled Thursday that France had failed to protect the Great Hamster of Alsace, sometimes known as the European hamster, the last wild hamster species in Western Europe. If France does not adjust its agricultural and urbanization policies sufficiently to protect it, the court said, the government will be subject to fines of as much as $24.6 million.
I am not making this up.
Apparently, even other Europeans hate the French.
June 12th, 2011 at 08:12
The question under discussion was this: Which is more important, the French people, or a ten-inch farmyard pest?
You can’t dismiss it like it’s an easy call to make.