> Police tried to form a perimeter around the Birkenstock store and the > health-food co-op but were too late to save either from looters, Upvall > said. Actually, of the various slumberbombs concealed in this piece which has to be written by a heterosexual male late twenties USAmerican co-ed, the Birkenstop Store reference is really quite viscious. Christ, talk about meusli wearing sandal-eating Guardian eaters ... I thought that there were possibly two people in the world who could decode a reference to the fact that that there are *three* ethnic areas in Bozen/Bolzanno and if you want to dance with Jack of Shadows, a.k.a Otzi the Iceman, kill a pigeon for god. :-( Robin