Germany has Officially gone Looney Tunes

Q: Can you be ticketed, fined or punished for using profanity or obscenity towards a law enforcement officer after they have finished ticketing you and say you are “free to go?”

For example, saying “f*** off” to a cop as they walk away after giving you a ticket?

A: The same answer applies to the question of whether you can give an officer the finger.

“You won’t make any friends, but you won’t get arrested,” King County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart said last year.

However, people will be arrested if their actions hinder or delays an officer or deputy from doing their job, he said. Obstructing an officer is a gross misdemeanor. Here’s the definition from the Revised Code of Washington.

America has a lot of problems, but at least we are not as FUCKED as the Europeans are!

The Home Office, which funded the creation of the £1.25m facility seven years ago, believes it to be a "best-practice example" on which the future of the UK's public surveillance system should be modelled.

So famed has central London's surveillance network become that figures released yesterday revealed that more than 6,000 officials from 30 countries have come to learn lessons from the centre.

They include police with the job of keeping order in the most dangerous cities on earth, from São Paulo in Brazil to Baltimore in the United States, as well as law enforcement officials from countries with a notorious disregard for the rights of citizens, such as China.

A delegation of foreign visitors turns up at Westminster's subterranean CCTV control room on a monthly basis. The FBI has paid a visit, as have - more recently - police forces from South Africa, Japan and Mexico.

The UK, whose police forces pioneered experiments with the technology in the 1960s, leads the world in surveillance of its people.

Exactly how many CCTV cameras there are in the UK is not known, although one study four years ago estimated 4.8m cameras had been installed.

What is rarely disputed is that the UK has more cameras per citizen than anywhere else.

Starbucks started in Seattle, didn't it? Must be the armpit of Hell .

No surprises there, especially not with the feeble attempt to portray yourself as a macho man based on the coffee you use.

Participants were then instructed to submerge their unclenched hand in a container of 41-degree water, and keep it there — while repeatedly cursing — for as long as they could. Before and after plunging their hands into the chilly water, their heart rate was recorded. And after they could no longer stand the cold temperature, they were asked to rate the amount of pain they were in, too.

What’s surprising is that the researchers had thought that swearing would make the cold water feel much colder, lowering the participants’ tolerance for pain and heightening their perception of it. “In fact, the opposite occurred — people withstood a moderately to strongly painful stimulus for significantly longer if they repeated a swear word rather than a nonswear word,” write the team, led by Keele University psychologist Richard Stephens, in the journal Neuroreport.