Germans send teen tearaway to Siberia The German authorities have packed off a violent 16-year-old youth to fend for himself in a remote Siberian village in the hope the "intensive educational experience" will cure him of his anti-social tendencies. The unnamed lad, from the central state of Hesse, was given his marching orders after "behaving violently in school …
...but made up by one of the german tabloids. Fact is, that there is a programme for "difficult" youngsters with courses abroad, e.g. in sibiria. Thats not a bootcamp at all, neither is he "sent there", the participation is voluntary and has to be choosen by the participiant as well as his parents.
I smell a scam.
Someone in Russia is making a very tidy profit. Are they shipping him there first class or what? Russian railway ticket 3rd class along with lodging in a Siberian A-frame cannot cost that much.
Otherwise the idea does not sound that bad.
Thinking about it, UK has plenty of wonderful islands off the coast of Scotland...
While the Scots in Downing street does not seem to approve of anything Russian for our neer-do-wells, surely, they should have nothing against some Orkney weather treatment.
I'd like to add the since as***le Koch became president of the wonderful state of Hesse the rate of crime commited by under 21s has rissen by 68% compared to the rest of Germany where the number is about 28%.
The problem is, that on the upcoming election (27th January) as***le Koch will lose a few votes but not enough to lose his office, which underlines the proverb that "every people gets the politicians it earns".
PH because she will vote for politicians as well as intelligent as herself.
..extracting large quantities of natural food seasoning from geological strata? or if he's lucky, he might win the Crazy Pravda Bingo jackpot and become a potato millionaire, earning 10,000 potatoes a day in interest alone. Or perhaps he might be even luckier and get to live in one of the towns where bread is made of less than 99% sawdust.
While the UK dabbled in sending our ner do wells on package holidays to africa the idea is still sound, we just sent them north and not south.
Why not send them to some god forsaken island up in the Orkneys or just south of the arctic circle where it starts to get dark just after lunch, the sheep outnumber the locals who all seam to be related to each other in some shape or form (which incidentally gives them their distinctive shape and form), its at least a three hour sea voyage from civilisation in a small fishing boat on choppy seas to get there, the local tavern brews its own ale from whatever they can lay their hands on that happens to be round and brown and has a hoppy colour and is frequented exclusively by fishermen, they only have one road and its straight and cobbled so there are no corners to hang about on, everyone practices some strange pagan religion that involves building tall human shaped structures out of wicker, electricity is something that hasnt been invented in the particular century they live in and going out in unsuitable clothes and stopping out longer than you should means that the locals will dig you out of a snow drift in june when the weather is a little more mild.
Yes it may toughen them up a bit however they wont want to go back there and a day of meaningful employment in the UK will be a pleasure to do compaired to a day of existance on gulag island.
... presumably the €150 is for the highly qualified German/Russian Translator/Parole Officer who is supervising. Given that you can survive on less than a pound a day with vast quantities of borscht and (the best) vodka, this kid should be thrilled.
No webby access? if that's the IT angle, fair enough, but I'd want triple that amount to live without my access to t'internet for even a couple of weeks.
I know just the place, the one that's been uninhabited since between the wars because the gov'ment tested anthrax on it. In fact why not set it up as a prison island and ship ALL the UK prison population over there. A few coastal patrol ships to police it and let them get on with "organising" their own accomadation and entertainment. Just need a helicopter for a food drop once a month and bob's your uncle. ;-)
I love Siberia! Have any of you been out there? The place is amazing... Women outnumber men 8:1 in many places (not all) and 90% of them are better looking than the "best" of what the UK has to offer these days (my god, are we in decline of attractive people - STOP EATING JUNK AND GET SOME EXERCISE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN!!). Vodka cost less than a cup of coffee, the food is lovely, the list goes on...
So, where do I sign up?
PS - Hasn't anyone seen Brat Camp? It's the same thing.
Try pooping behind a tree and you'll get a frostbitten arse !! If the weather can do it to the brass monkeys, it'll certainly do it to yours !!
@night troll - No need for the expense of patrol ships at all. Just drop some offal around the island a few times a day and the local "denizens" will gladly patrol the seas !!
FYI: This isn't first time Germans send their difficult child to villages under Omsk.
It is important, that those villagers are descendants of WW II war prisoners. That's why many villagers speak "German" language.
However I surprised to read this: "The Siberian exile apparently costs €150 a day".
€150 - it is quite more than people get as their monthly salary in those villages. And still they survive and grow children somehow.
Two-way Ticket to Omsk from Germany costs you no more than €600, Russian visa €200. Renting a "house" €20 per month.
Omsk - is my hometown, where I was grown from the age of 0 till age of 15.
Then I moved to Moscow and got BS in CS from best Russian technical university.
Now, I'm, 21 years old, software developer for best graphics company in the world and I'm working in Santa Clara, CA.
I have long harbored the fantasy that the UK prison system should be outsourced to West Africa for crimes involving violence.
Dunno, pick a country Nigeria ? or maybe Sierra Leone? - ooohh... what about Ghana?
If the Japanese can built golf themed retirement resorts in the Gambia - what's the problem?
1. Commenter No.1 is right.
2. The particepant agreed to this, unlike the state goverment
Link[http://www.bildblog.de/2737/ein-wintermaerchen-fuer-roland-koch-2]
2. a. R.K. cut funds in police and justice-depts. since 2004
3. There is no IT-angle, 'cos theres no intelligence involved
3.a. I'm living in Hesse, I know 2.a.
4. Yes, I'm fan of the ol' man Dredd
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