Bat bi hiru lau
Watch your back, watch your back
Ertzaintza's is gonna get you
Watch your back, watch your back
Ertzaintza's gonna get you
Watch your back, watch your back
Oh, there's a crime here
It's a coming from the Eskal Herria
Gotta wash those red hands
It's the crimes of the basquelands
Musker
So not going very in-depth into stories
Just talking about what's been happening around this part of the world
Or in the world
Also
With other bascos
Exactly
And you're gonna have the first story
Yeah, my first story is
Okay, so when it comes to these cheeky soles
I figure if I'm gonna talk about something really horrible
Let's go with it at the beginning
And then we can go out
With a nicer, lighter
Oh right, yeah. It makes sense. We'll end on more of a lighter note, okay?
Yeah. So this really horrible story is out of Oriol, which is also in Cibutua.
It's not too far from San Sebastian. Okay. Down the coast I've been to Oriol, have you?
I don't think so. On the coast you say though. Yeah, it's like along the Camino de Santiago.
So I've been doing separate routes along the Camino from starting in
D'Nosti and then I do different etapas or stages I guess I should say. Oh really? Oh that's sweet.
So with Bobby, so we take you know to one city and then we'll stop there and have lunch and then
the next time we'll take the train to that city where we stopped and do the next stage. Yeah.
To the next city and have lunch. Beautiful. Beautiful. So and Oriol is this little you know
small town on the coast. It is very sweet. Just along from D'Nosti really. And Zarauz. Yeah.
Was that one day for you guys? That's the first stage that was the first time. For the people to
understand the Camino de Santiago goes to Santiago de Compostela in St. James. St. James yeah.
Of Compostela which is this town in Galicia. And so it's a very old thing but like in 70s or 80s
nobody was doing it. Like you would go to this as a kind of religious procession. Right pilgrimage.
Pilgrimage. Thank you. So anyway in the 80s it wasn't really happening until somebody wrote a
book. Yes. I think it was this. There's a book, there's a movie. Some Brazilian guy I think. Anyway
it sold the this one interior one is the one that got popularized first. Oh. And so because of that
it has pretty regular hotels like every 15 kilometers. Yeah hostels. Exactly. They're more
like yeah hostile type situation where you're sleeping in like dorm kind of situation with
bunk beds. Originally. That's the thing though. Like originally. But they still are. They do. Yeah.
A lot of them are still like that. You still do. But it's up to you really where you want to stay. Yeah you can stay
wherever you want. Exactly. But because there's lots. But you get like a discount if you're on the.
Sometimes depending on the hotel you place. Right. But if it's a like a municipal hostel thing you
there's all sorts of discounts and it's really cheap to do which why a lot of people do it. Yeah.
Anyway I did the southern one because well first because my friend was doing. All the way to Galicia.
From Burgos. Really? That was what? So you did the whole thing to Santiago. Yeah it was like 21 days.
Wow. I didn't know that. So but what was funny as well though was so so this friend of mine.
Bridey. Hi Bridey. Hi. I don't know who you are but hi. You know she's Australian and we met studying
Japanese in Japan. Okay. And so anyway so she she was when we went we went down to Burgos she lasted
like two or three days and she was like okay I'm just gonna get a bus. I'll meet you there. Yeah.
But then. And then you walked the whole. I just walked the rest of the way. Oh my god. Because the whole thing of the Camino is for me I found extremely addictive which is you kind of get up in the morning you see some people.
I can see how that is. And then you say hi and then you kind of have lunch and you see other people and then you get to the evening to the next place and
then you settle in and then you might see that those people that you were walking to and said hi to you during the day might be sleeping there or you might have dinner together or just have a drink afterwards in the bar.
And it's just this moving community of people. Yeah. Yeah. Plus there was a lot of Camino love in my group. So. Oh. Things happening. Spicy. Exactly. Exactly. Canadians meeting Americans.
Americans meeting Europeans. It was very interesting. They don't talk about that in the movie. No. No. There's also all sorts of Caminos. That was the best. So. It was a hook up scene.
Yeah. Nothing concrete happened with me but there was tension in there. It was quite fine. I had no idea. You actually did it. Really recommend it.
Well this story was the 17th of May at around 5 20 p.m. Some middle of the day on Aranzale Street. Fisherman's right outside of a children's park.
There was a woman sitting on a bench who was approached by her ex partner. They had planned to meet apparently.
People who knew them. There was a what sounded like an explosion and then their two bodies were just bloody and horrible right there on the street.
But it turned out that her ex partner had come and shot her with a sawed off shotgun and then killed himself directly after. Wow.
So this woman. Shocking. Yes. Shocking. Of course. Like in the middle of the street right next to a kids park like a little playground.
Now I realize the relevance of that piece of information. Yeah. It's just like oh my gosh. Poor people. Yeah.
So her name was Maria Lourdes Del Oyo. She was a native of San Sebastian but she was a resident of Oreo.
She was 47 and a mother of two. A 16 year old and a 20 year old. Oh man. So and these were from a previous relationship though.
So this person this ex partner of hers they'd only dated for a year and then the relationship ended.
And it sounds like it sounds like they had planned to meet for whatever reason. And then he just came and killed her. Wow.
And then killed himself. The man who committed the crime was Alberto Casado. He was born in Oreo and he was about 50.
He was a fisherman and a futsal coach. I don't know what that means. Futsal is like football de sala.
So it's football that's indoors. OK. So I don't know what you call that in English.
He lived just like 200 meters from where this happened. Apparently he had a coffee in a bar nearby before he went and did this.
And so like the sound of it made a lot of the neighbors think that it was an explosion.
The sound of it made it. They're like oh my God there's an explosion. So they sent the or China sent out like a bomb squad.
Right. To investigate first to see what the heck happened. And apparently he was carrying it in like a shoe box.
A big shoe box. Yeah. OK. And it turned out it was a a gun that was a sawed off shotgun that was registered in his name.
That he was the registered owner and legally possessed but had manipulated it to make it illegal.
So had no like no background of violence or anything.
You know but I was you know I think she had never called him out for violence.
Right. Like pressed any charges against him for violence. He had no former charges for violence.
But I often think like so many people don't report that stuff. Yeah. You know like if it happens in the relationship they often just say oh OK.
No I'm done. I'm out. You know I'm not putting up with this. So they just leave.
They've got enough. So maybe that's what happened here. Like she's got enough space to do that sometimes.
Yeah. It's too late even. Yeah. So maybe she she left when it looked like he might be violent and. Yeah.
Wow. That's so sad. Yeah. Very sad. So that's the first story I had.
And so that's the worst story I have for today. So there you go. I got the bad one out of the way.
But it was very shocking. Yeah. Really shocking. Like in the middle of a very small town I don't even know how big it is.
Tiny. Yeah. Just from the map it's really small. You can see it's tiny.
Literally I'm sure a lot of people knew them. Like just really. It's like 10 streets across and seven streets.
Yeah. It's nothing. That's about it. Yeah. But no. Yeah. Well my feelings go out to the family poor children.
And of course like a lot of these cases there's been a huge outcry with machista crimes. Yeah.
Like this has got to stop these partners killing their ex-partners. Yeah. Sort of thing. Yeah.
So they're having. So there's lots of protests and memorials and. That's nice to hear. Vigils and stuff.
Yeah. Yeah. People here are so nice about that. But really. Well people are fed up with hearing about this.
It's like she was number something in machista crimes of this year. It's a good thing to keep track.
OK. The number of women murdered by gender violence in Spain rises to 18 this year and to 1,202 since the statistics began in 2003.
So in Uxca the issue was the first woman murdered in 2023. OK. That's good. Good to know. I mean it is almost middle of the year.
But yeah I've read also yeah that the stats here are much lower than the rest of the state. That's good to know. Yeah.
All right. We're back. We're back. OK. So this story is not all that crazy but it's kind of crazy.
Had it happened. Yeah. Anyway. So a. Let's see. The roof of a Pueblo Deportivo which is like a sports center or like a gym gym.
Like a municipal gym. It collapsed. Oh my gosh. Why are you laughing.
Was anybody hurt. No nobody was hurt. We can laugh. Yeah it happened in the early hours like around 7 a.m.
So before it was even open. Good. But the. So it collapsed. Some neighbors heard it.
OK. Still not getting the last. Well I mean just that they heard it and they were getting testimonials from residents around the area.
So it happened around 7 in the morning and it was closed. Right. So the because it occurred at that time nobody was hurt.
So it was like in the court of like a paddle court. Paddle is a sport that's very popular here but it's like it's kind of like.
It's kind of like racquetball or squash. It's like a similar type of for those of you know those types of sports.
It's like a closed in court with walls. So you hit the wall with a ball. You're speaking to our heterosexual listeners.
I used to play racquetball. I have level four racquetball. Wow. University. Look at that.
It was always my extra credit that I would get pass or fail.
So I'd try to fit in like a credit that I could get to get my student aid your financial aid. Oh right.
In order to get the financial aid you had to be a full time student. So you would have to be so many credits per semester.
So I used to you know think OK I'm working and I've got to go to school.
So I had to I did some hard classes make maybe four hard classes but I still had a couple of credits that I needed to fulfill to get the student or the financial aid.
So it would always be like a sport. So I did like snowboarding or I did racquetball for four years.
So I was like the highest level of racquetball. Anyway paddle is much like racquetball. It's in that type of court.
OK. Yeah. So the ceiling collapsed into this court and nobody was there.
Nobody got hurt. And yeah they and it did not interrupt any of the other classes for the worst for the day.
At the time it collapsed and they just continued with the other like OK well that court's out of commission.
So it's not do P.E. but nobody can rent out the paddle court for this day.
But they did have other classes. I thought it was funny in the sense that well nobody got hurt.
You know so it's good there. It's very good for that. All right.
Do you have a story for us. I do. We're continuing a theme here.
OK. Nicaragua back to Nicaragua. Yes.
Nicaragua and again priests. All right. Ortega.
He's been changing his mind a lot. Ortega.
If you read the Wikipedia it's pretty random right. He's like he was just killing priests at first and then he outlawed abortion.
Total 180. And now he's putting priests in jail again. OK. Right.
So this is what happened. He put two people were sent to jail to two sacerdotes.
So I'm translating sacerdotes as priests. Yeah I think it is.
And I think we're talking about the Catholic church. So we call them priests. Right.
So this is a church in Managua the capital.
The two people who were taken to prison was Eugenio Rodriguez Benavides
and Leonardo Guevara Gutierrez. And you wouldn't have thought it right. But Guevara.
Yeah I didn't know that. Guevara means just under the top of the mountain.
So not quite at the top of the mountain. OK. At first they denied that these guys were even in prison.
And then after a couple of days where they had disappeared and people were like well.
They just disappeared. Yeah. And then eventually they were secretly arrested.
They confirmed that they were under arrest. Oh my gosh.
They are accused of being involved with an NGO.
Now the reason why I'm very skeptical is because we were just checking.
Just this this article actually says more than 3500 NGOs have been closed by the Nicaraguan government over the last few years.
So it's not like this NGO certainly did anything wrong. I think he's just angry at NGOs.
So yeah. Trouble brewing in Nicaragua still. And it was kind of funny because I just I just clicked Nicaragua.
And got Basco. And police or something. And sure enough one of the surnames was Basco.
So you know just that that's the comment. The go to the go to story.
But I think it's just as high in Cuba to be honest. Probably. And a few more places.
But anyway since it was a theme of our podcast so far I thought it was nice first to cover that story.
Yeah. OK. Well I have a story about some 27 people that were arrested from Ciputua,
Navarra, Galicia and Pais Basco or Basque Country French Basque Country.
OK. Twenty seven. Twenty seven people for trafficking for illegal trafficking of Angulas.
So Angulas is like the baby eels. Right. And it's a very popular delicacy.
I think they call them leaven in English. I don't know what they call them in English.
So they're just like these little tiny baby eels and they're very much a delicacy and very expensive.
I've never eaten the real ones. I've never eaten the real ones either because they make a lot of fake ones.
Yeah. They put on top of pinchos. And there's I love them. And it's like cod but they paint them.
Like they literally paint them to look like a line on the line on their back to look like an eel.
And then some little eyeballs. They paint little eyeballs on them to make them look.
The cheap ones don't have eyeballs, but I've never eaten ones with eyeballs.
But it definitely looks cute. And I yeah, I've only seen them like in Japan.
Well, that's where they were sending them all to Asia. That's what happened.
OK, so they were all arrested. It was a macro operation, they say, against the illegal trafficking of eels in which some
they carried out 30 simultaneous searches in homes, companies and clandestine nurseries or farms, I guess,
in which they seized 1.5 tons of live specimens. OK.
Wow. And this was carried out by the Guardia Civil and the French national Gendarmerie.
Thank you. Gendarmerie, if you want to do it more in English.
Gendarmerie. They were they got all the live ones.
They were intended to be sold to Asian countries.
Seven tons of frozen batches were seized without traceability or sanitary controls.
They were unsuitable for for putting into the food market.
Yeah. And more than two million euros of assets were seized.
Wow. Yeah. So the recovered eels that they seized, the ones that were alive,
were returned to their natural environment to preserve their survival.
Oh, nice. Yeah. I found it in English. Oh, yeah. What is it? Baby eel or elver? Elver.
I mixed it up. I think said something similar to that, but I didn't say that.
OK. So this is a highly valued product in some Asian countries where its price reaches values of up to five thousand euros a kilo.
So for years they've been they've they've been finding criminal groups and organizations that are dedicated to stealing batches of live eels and sending them to Asia.
Yeah. So this was the group that they arrested were made up of both fishermen and commercial managers and wholesalers.
They were a circuit. They were a legal circuit of supply to citizens of Chinese origin who had clandestine nurseries in Paris.
And Antwerp in Belgium. Right. Yeah.
So they would organize trips for people to Asia who through different European airports near the nurseries carried luggage containing the eel specimens.
Wow. Yeah. So the stuff that they were able to says during the investigation,
it was found that up to 14 tons of juvenile eel, so the baby eels and 31 tons of adult eel were removed from this this illegal chain of people,
which in the legal market would have reached the value of more than six point seven million euros.
Yeah. So that's all I've got on that. But well, I mean, very basque now.
Super basque. I mean, they love those here.
I mean, it's like a Christmas time food. True. You know, like the special, the utmost delicacy.
Yeah, they're a delicacy. It's like caviar, you know, or like.
I'm a bit conflicted about that because it's like, well, it doesn't matter that I've tried it or not.
But the fact is I've never tried the real thing. Yeah, no, me neither.
The weird thing for me is that I don't know how much people in Asia eat the babies.
I know here we eat the babies, but I know in Japan, the main market is for adults and they want.
Yeah. Yeah. Unagi is a very famous dish in sushi. Yeah.
And so, yeah, the issue is they like to have the babies and they'll buy them.
They traditionally would raise them in rice paddy fields.
And so they would help with controlling insects and, you know, there's good things about the whole culture as well.
But, of course, like most species, they're declining.
So, yeah, just last year, they put, I think, eel in general.
They just like, well, maybe it's not the best species to eat, you know?
And so it's very dependent on which region you're getting it from,
because some subspecies are kind of like more under pressure than others.
So I guess the ones here are under so much pressure.
But, you know, like eating babies is not the best way to go.
Well, and I think the most the main issue is that they weren't following all the controls or the regulations of the trade.
Right. So they weren't following fishing standards or fishing regulations.
And then, yeah, because the moment the thing is not considered, it's considered like a species of concern.
Yeah. Then you're not supposed to be just eating it.
So you're not allowed to do it.
So, of course, you're going to have problems.
But like, I'm sure there's legal ways to do it.
Yes, and there is. It's just then, you know, you've got also limits.
You're not supposed to get 100 percent of the babies or things like that.
Yeah. Because there's also a lot of issues with the eels.
Traditionally, they go up one stream and they have babies up at the top of the stream.
And the babies, they swim out to see grow up once they're born out of eggs.
And then they come up to the same stream to lay eggs again when they're adults, years and years later.
So because of that, it's like very hard.
Like if a population goes extinct in a stream, you might not get any.
You don't get anybody coming back to lay eggs.
So then you have to have a whole thing of putting the babies in as babies or as eggs in the stream to see if they come back to the stream.
And that sometimes works. That sometimes doesn't work.
So it's a very hit and miss thing.
And so, you know, you can have certain streams and river systems that are very successful and still have eels, but you can have ones that have collapsed.
So, yeah, it's an issue, guys.
We should be careful with eels and eat it with sparing caution.
I've tried them because it's just basically cod, what I've eaten.
Oh, you're talking about the pretend ones.
The pretend ones I've eaten, you know, on a pincho.
But like, to me, it's not appetizing at all.
That's not a problem.
To see little worm like things on your food.
Yeah, it's just like fish pasta is what they make, really.
The pretend version of it is just a little fish pasta.
OK, shall I tell another one?
Go for it.
OK, so a court in San Sebastian has ruled in favor of a chef or a restaurant.
So Paolo Airaudo.
OK, so he was sued, this chef, because he runs this restaurant, the Amalia Restaurant
in Paseo de la Concha in San Sebastian.
He has just achieved his second Michelin star.
He charged three clients, or at least one of them, the one that made the reservation,
510 euros for not showing up.
Sorry.
So they made a reservation, didn't show up, and he charged them what the three meals would
have cost at his restaurant.
So the client then sued him and the chef won.
Oh, the chef won.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Yes.
I mean, I can't say I disagree.
I'm kind of ambivalent about it.
Yeah, because I guess these restaurants are really high demand and these tables are very
high demand, you know, so he could have.
So for him, it was like losing money.
Right.
If you had the excuse that you phone the same day.
So he charged each client, so the three of them, 170 euros each.
So the man warned that he would take the matter to court for having already charged the sum
of three covers, 170 euros each on his card without having enjoyed any service at the
restaurant.
He knew when he could have the service enjoying.
Yeah, but he changed his mind.
So he was like a guy traveling.
So according to this story, it sounds like the guy called.
That's the thing.
And then he decided to delay his visit by 24 hours and tried to postpone his reservation
at the hotel, which is in the same building as the restaurant.
Wow.
OK.
So he figured because he had changed his reservation at the rest at the hotel that it would then
transfer to the restaurant, which it did not because they are separate entities.
There are some gray areas there to be sure.
Yes.
So then when the when he didn't cancel at the restaurant, they charged him.
Yeah.
So yeah.
I mean, be careful, guys.
So they accept cancellations up to 72 hours in advance.
OK.
Otherwise, you're going to be charged 170 euros for canceling.
So that's that's a very interesting.
It's good to know.
Noted. Noted.
Don't make a reservation and then just last minute cancel it.
Yeah.
I've been thinking if I want to go because I look through what he says, he affirms.
This is what the the the chef said.
He says the the non appearance of these clients entailed an economic damage for his business
that seeks excellence and distinction, both in obtaining the raw material, a lobster from
Scotland or products originated from Japan.
He gave his examples as well as the preparation and the subsequent presentation.
So he goes through all that trouble for an empty table and then he loses money.
So a bit over dramatic.
Well, he's the one that got sued.
So he had to like build a defense.
Right.
And I say this is why I charged him a hundred no five hundred and ten euros.
It's for three people.
Expensive for not having anything.
And we're back.
Hello, everybody.
We're back again.
So my story now.
OK.
Another one. My last story.
OK.
Um, yeah, I'm just I was wondering.
This one is not in Nicaragua, right?
No, it's very Basque.
So it's well, they're all Basque related.
But this is a court ruling that was given in Victoria,
because the capital of the Basque country.
So the ruling from the judicial was saying that you have to accept
policemen from municipal police that don't have the level B2 in Basque.
And B2 would be like intermediate upper intermediate Basque.
Exactly.
So since twenty nineteen or a little bit before,
they have been demanding that you have that to enter.
One or two hundred people have been rejected because they didn't have
the this level B2, and now because of the ruling.
They have to be accepted.
I disagree with this ruling profoundly, and I'm very upset by it.
And I was, yeah, we've really stressing out about it because it's very depressing
that we have to, you know, fight for our police to speak
the language of the Basque country in twenty twenty three.
I'm really disgusted that the fact that it was
a judge in Victoria that came out with this and, you know,
it's within the Basque country, even it's more offensive, even, you know,
we're fighting. There's only about a third of people who use Basque day to day.
I know that younger people have more Basque in their lives,
but they don't necessarily use it day to day.
So the fact that we're.
It's a very slippery slope. I don't like it at all.
This article was saying at the end that was just this just came out this week.
But at the end, they were saying that the government is probably going to
they're going to appeal because.
As I said, communities that are missing a person,
well, they need more police if they need another police,
you don't know which municipality they're in and whether it's a majority
Basque speaking municipality. So, yeah,
I don't know what to say about it because I.
I don't know. I know that.
I don't know. I don't even know if I want to get into it.
Yeah, it's fine. I know you're ambiguous about the theme and
and it's it's, you know, everybody is free to have their own opinions.
And you know that I'm very committed to the cause of Basque language, especially.
I know. And so, you know, I think Basque autonomy in a political sense
is very important to safeguard Basque.
I understand your passion for it. And
and we probably differ on a few things.
We've had a lot of Douglas and I have been on each other for a very long time.
We've had a lot of very emotional arguments over the years.
Yeah. Where we both ended up crying.
Yeah. But it's just because we disagree on some things.
But I'm not I don't disagree with your.
I mean, I disagree with every friend of mine on a lot of things.
Of course we do. That's why we're individuals.
But exactly, you know, that's the beauty of friendship is that we know we're different.
Yes, we love each other. Absolutely.
And we believe in a lot of things in common.
Exactly. That's the most important thing. We agree more than we disagree.
Of course. What was our rule? 80 percent's enough. Yeah.
All right. Let's go with a more lighthearted story.
Out of D'Nosti again. D'Nosti. Yeah. The heart of the Basque speaking country.
They do speak a lot more Basque than Bilbao for sure.
Statistically. Yeah. So a parked car.
OK, we're starting. Re-tabbing. Oh really?
A parked car. This is the best thing about the story. A parked car.
So a parked car ran over the terrace of a bar in Gross, the Gross neighborhood.
You know Gross? It's part of D'Nosti.
Yeah, it's a neighborhood that has a lot of nice.
Yeah, I like I spend a lot of time in D'Nosti because I have friends live there.
Goyo. Hey, Goyo. Hi, Goyo. Hi, Sergio. Hi, Sergio.
I don't know if Sergio listens, but Goyo definitely does.
Yes. So a parked car ran over the terrace of a
bar in the Gross neighborhood. I'm still confused.
Was there a lot of wind involved? How was the parked car?
No, this is what happened. The handbrake wasn't on.
Oh no. So it basically was parked near the
terrace and then I guess it just started rolling, moving
downhill into the terrace. So it just ran into all the tables
and chairs. Of course, it's silence. Did people
realize it was coming? Well, yeah, like people had to jump out of the way.
This is around 9 p.m. at night. Oh, crying time.
And it was on a slight slope, it says in the story.
So the customers who were sitting in the outdoor terrace of the premises at the
front, at the foot of the street, were kind of impacted by the car.
Oh my gosh. But nobody really got that hurt.
Well, if it wasn't too fast. And it was stopped by a pot, like a
like a large pot at the end. Like I was probably holding like some lovely
flowers. So is this our first... So the car was
like just barreling through the tables and the chairs and everybody
that was sitting on the terrace and then just was
stopped by this pot, probably of flowers. Some minor drama.
Yeah, yeah. So there were ambulances sent to the scene.
So bad. I know. They were sent to the scene. There were no significant injuries,
but they had to attend to several people after having suffered scratches
and being shaken by fright.
Well, I guess we can see how
high up the echelon that neighborhood is.
Yeah, people are very sensitive in that neighborhood.
Drama at the highest level, yeah. I mean, if it's a...
Is that kind of... It's a nice part of town, right?
So... Well, I mean the whole town is nice. It is.
It's not really a bad part of town. It's nasty.
Gross, specifically. I hear with tones... Why not? No, no. It's a nice...
It's... No, but like okay, La Concha, where the restaurant, the Michelin
restaurant was located, that charged the guy 510 euros. That's a nice,
nice part of town, right? Gross was like the part of town that was like
outside of that, right? Okay. So, but now it's super trendy and...
So there's a lot of like new... So it's like recently gentrified.
Kind of, but like the whole thing is gentrified. The whole place is like...
The whole of Donosti. Nice, yeah. Like there's no bad part of town
in Donosti. It's gorgeous, guys. Gorgeous. You gotta go. The whole thing is...
You gotta go. It's lovely. There's no riff-raff. No, no. Too expensive.
Even the bus there is expensive. Too expensive to go there and do any bad shit.
Oh, Donosti. As we might say in this occasion, gno gno sti.
Yes, gno gno. You have to explain what that is. What is gno gno?
Gno gno. So gno gno is like if you call a guy gno gno,
ay que gno gno it is, right? Oh my gosh, you're so gno gno.
Okay. It's kind of like saying, oh you're so posh.
Ah, okay. Like, so it's with posh, posh in perhaps a slightly more silly way.
Yeah, like almost like insulting. It is definitely insulting.
Like yeah, I guess you could call you posh in a nice way.
I've never heard. You can call me that. I mean, yeah, but like, yeah, I just,
I'm just, yeah. It's been a long time I haven't heard the word posh in a nice
context is what I mean. No, true. But gno gno is...
A lot of people get offended by posh. Gno gno is not evil. It's not
bad, but it is silly. Like it's calling you silly. It's like upper class.
Or like, yeah, like you're too... So this is a perfect example.
Image oriented or something. Yeah, in my brain, because if you say
you're gno gno, it's like, oh you're kind of like a
weak and silly and you've got wrong priorities in a way, I guess.
Yeah. So if you're shocked and horrified by a car that just slids...
And you need an ambulance. Yeah, you know, that would be a perfect occasion to call
somebody gno gno. Yeah, totally. So because Donosti is such a rich
place, people sometimes play with the name of Donosti and call it
gno gno sti, which is perfect for this occasion, right?
Yes, absolutely. So it all came to an end when a group of
people managed to remove the vehicle from the terrace and held it down to
prevent it from moving again. So they got the tables back. They just
stopped. They all just went and put their hands on the car, basically.
Stop it from... It hit the pot and then everybody went to,
you know, put their hands on it. Reorganize the tables.
To prevent it from moving again. And the owners of the car went down to the
street after hearing all the noise and then activated their... Then they
just put on the handbrake.
I mean, the drama. The drama. Like, so anyway, that story is funny because
I, you know, found it this morning while looking for stories to talk about
tonight. And tonight when I was leaving work, I was
crossing one street and there was a cop car in the
middle of the street with its lights on. A surprise. And it appeared as though a
car that had been parked in a parking spot
had rolled out into the street. It looked like the same thing and I was like, oh
my god, that's like the story I just found about a car that was just parked
and somebody didn't put on the handbrake. Our second parking crime.
Our second parking crime. Yep. Never had one of those. So there you go. That's the mini crime time for
tonight. Even parking can be a crime, guys.
Yeah, put on the handbrake. Put on the handbrake. Actually, I have a story that I did in
Boise, Idaho. I did not put on the handbrake. Oh my gosh, that's terrible. It was
horrible because it wasn't my car. It was my friend's car. It didn't hit
anything. Lucky Julie. I know. I was parked in the
parking garage at my university. Okay. And I parked and I was leaving and I
was walking and then I heard people yelling and I
turned around and I saw the car, my friend's car that I had borrowed,
rolling out into the middle of the parking. I was like, oh my god.
So I didn't put on the handbrake. So that actually did happen. So
did it sort of stop by itself or did you have to... Yeah, it was rolling out but there
were people kind of trying to stop it because people were worried it was going
to hit a car. Excellent. And so it didn't hit anything.
Community. 10 points Boise. But it was really embarrassing more than anything.
It was more like, oh my god, that's mine. I did that. You know, I had to turn around
and go back and like... Hey, at least there was not...
On the handbrake. Imagine if some rich people were sipping wine
in a bar and then it ran through like tables and stuff. Way worse. That wasn't as bad.
Yeah, it would have been a lot worse. Could have been worse. 10 points Boise.
Could have been worse. But I have had that happen.
So it's, you know, it's possible. It does happen. I feel your pain.
It was pretty embarrassing. Thanks everybody for joining us again.
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