Demagogue

Three weeks ago, I reported a Dutch official's warning that "a national debate on wild sex parties in the countryside is essential." The Netherlands is already suffering the effects of ignoring this sage advice. The authorities have resorted to horticulture in an effort to limit public sex, but modern telecommunications technology has thwarted their efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice. On the other hand, the cops didn't have much trouble catching the couple who were having sex on the hood of their police car, allegedly not having noticed the two police officers still sitting in the car. As in the case of Juf Ingrid, the authorities took a typically Dutch--that is to say, pragmatic--view of the offense:

One of the officers got out of the car and told the couple to stop what they were doing and leave.

The 25-year-old man was arrested after he refused and insulted the policeman....

A police spokesman said: "The law doesn't say you can't make love on the bonnet of a police car."

"But the policemen have to be available for duty. If the two lovers had left when they were told, nothing would have happened."

Meanwhile, in America, a man's testicles were stuck in a padlock for two weeks.

Remarkably, people continue to ask me why I moved to the Netherlands.