Monday, December 11, 2006

"Polite" British people in Riga

Already some month ago, a seriously drunk British male, aged 30, decided to relieve himself. Unfortunately he chose to do it on the National freedom monument of Latvia. Now to say that Latvians hold this statue in high regard, it would be an understatement. However, the really good news were that he was spotted by the local police, and duly banged up. Unfortunately under Latvian law the maximum sentence is likely to be a fine of Ls 250.00, (approximately 5600EEK) To tell the truth, if it was left to majority of latvian people, then he would be locked up in one of Latvia's "finest prisons" for a lengthy period of time. This incident, whilst in the great scheme of things, is no major misdemeanour, and once again indicates the quality of British (in this case English) "polite" people that Ryan Air flies into Riga.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It seems that not only Latvia face the problem of 'polite' Brits, it has been noticed that Lithuanian people more and more often face rude British who come to Baltic states to let out their inner 'beast'...:)

Anonymous said...

I'd say the policemen should take away his pants. Prob with the fine is that they have money, but when you take their pants away, that is something extraordinary. But so is to piss on the brivibas tower ;-)

Anonymous said...

honestly i dont know why the police dont lay into them, oh wait theyd run crying to their racist government who'd indict "underdeveloped" methods....brits, the most hated bastard country under the sun