West thought Slovaks are retarded, now there’s evidence
International scandal was born for Slovakia when its police accidentally sent a bomb on plane from Poprad to Dublin. What more, the passenger transporting it didn't know anything about what's going on. Kind of funny, but on the other hand could it be any worse?
What a lovely return to Ireland from Christmas time holiday back home in Slovakia. Slovak policeman during training put a bomb into baggage of 2 passengers of the flight from Poprad-Tatry to Dublin. Police was training a dog to find explosives in passengers’ baggages. One was found, the other forgotten… as the policeman had to go to check different plane.
This happened on Saturday. Irish were informed on Tuesday. The question is what did the Slovak passenger do during the other 2 days when he found the strange-looking package in his bag? ;)
But, actually, according to Slovak side, Dublin was informed about the explosive sample during the flight of the plane and the pilot knew about it too. Pilot decided to fly as he didn’t consider explosives being direct danger without detonator… Nobody stopped the plane so. For director of Poprad-Tatry airport it is also strange that Irish colleagues didn’t act appropriately after receiving the message.
Later Slovak police informed the affected passenger and instructed him to wait for Garda to take the explosives away. That was accompanied with blockade of streets and evacuation. Despite he had nothing to do with it, Garda arrested him for half of a day.
Obviously, there is more then one truth again, so it must be somewhere in the middle.
This whole situation makes me laugh and cry at the same time. What a scandal, what an advertisement for my small country. Slovaks have a lot of jokes about police and after this accident I think nobody wants to be a policeman anymore. :)
What makes me really concerned and worried is that police used normal, ordinary people, who didn’t know about anything, as guinea pigs. And they forgot to be responsible!!! What a training! If they want to train, let’s train with team of people who know what’s going on and who can act appropriately!
Until now I was kind of proud I could tell “I’m from Slovakia.” It separated me from huge Polish minority (no offend – I have Polish girlfriend and lot of good Polish friends) in Ireland, although, all Irish still think I’m Polish. ;) So, I like to correct them. Should I rather say nothing now? Hopefully this will become just a good joke soon and nothing similar will happen in the future. Not in Slovakia, not anywhere else!
The worse is that I’m flying to Bratislava from Dublin on 10th. What a shame. Does any Irishman want to pack a bomb…? ;) I promise I’ll look after my baggage when I’ll be returning.
Don’t be mad about whole country and never create a picture about nation from single-person actions, please! We all are misjudging people from east ;)
Slovak Jokes
Remember last December when the Slovak Police sent explosives in airplane baggage to Ireland for “anti- terrorism drills”?
That puts the SLOW in Slowvak everytime.
Slovak jokes
A Slovak came into a bar with a parrot and the bartender said: “Get that fat ugly pig out of here”
The Slovak said: That’s not a fat ugly pig, its a parrot.
The bartender said: I was talking to the parrot.
And who are you, by the way? Where do you come from?
“Slovak” is short for “Slowvak” for good reason.