La mudanza de los Kirchner

Wednesday, May 14, 2008


In the category of "Vaguely Interesting News You Didn't Know You Might Care About," it appears that Los Kirchner have moved from Rio Gallegos to El Calefate, and the move was videoed and uploaded to YouTube. See their chairs! Ogle their mattress!

It's just too much for one boy to take in.

If you need more, here's a Crítica article on the move.

Lemon pile + scuffle

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Foto: DYN via Perfil

Around 3 pm yesterday, a truck carrying 200 tons of lemons lost its load. Thousands of lemons rained down from the elevated highway 9 de Julio (at San Juan Ave). No one was hurt. But the pile of lemons left in the accident's wake proved too tempting to onlookers. Authorities tried to ward off the fruitophiles, but when an automated shovel on wheels (I don't know the proper word for this) started crushing and exploding the lovely lemons, some lost it. Looters pushed authorities aside and rushed the pile. There was one arrest (see photo below). But after about 7 pm, the tussle ended. Purses and pockets could be lined with lemons without incident. Dramatic, no? Clarín told the story well, complete with quotes from a woman who wanted to bring fallen lemons to her soup kitchen. Perfil declared that it was straight from the movies: The only element lacking was Karadagian, (which sent me to Wikipedia, because I haven't the foggiest re: Argentine wrestler/actors).

Foto: Clarín
Naturally, youtube.com has footage of the lemons raining down.

 
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