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Arrested for Smiling

It doesn't take much to piss off the cops in Belarus.

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|10.6.06 @ 10:28AM|

Over here, the vertical smile tends to raise a few eyebrows.

|10.6.06 @ 10:37AM|

Eastern Europe......

About six months back I went on a Stag Do to Riga, Latvia. The place was beautiful, apart from the thirty foot high, imposing grantite statue of Lenin's three marksmen. The police however were terrifying. Those guys are nasty. And they like nothing better than arresting over exuberant English dickheads.

I kept off the Jack Daniels that weekend.

|10.6.06 @ 3:30PM|

You better frown when you talk to me, boychik.

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