German schooners collision. What the hell were they thinking?

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Aye.

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Germans must have changed significantly since I was there in the mid-70’s. At that time, it was impossible to get Germans to line up (“queue up”, in brit-speak) at all, and their behavior on the road was a modified form of this. I remember seeing a Politzei helicopter herding a group of German cars that decided to take a detour around a road accident (and almost running over an officer doing it). I didn’t see them on the water, however, so that may have been different.

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When the wall came down a whole lot of East Germans who had been driving trabants were suddenly unleashed on the roads driving second hand Mercedes and BMWs. The results were predictable.

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My experience was that the Trabants on the Autobahn were just about as dangerous. 75 kmh when the Mercedes and BMWs were doing at least twice that.

Cheers,

Earl

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