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This is the home town of our very own @heywooduand @brunamoura

 

 

[heywoodu 16,476]

3 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

This is the home town of our very own @heywooduand @brunamoura

 

 

Yep, the amount of emergency services I heard at some point was a little extreme (for our little town), so I checked what was going on and saw they were all being called to a specific location. Until then I thought maybe it was part of a parade of trucks and agricultural vehicles that was on it's way from the next town over, decorated with lights and stuff.

 

Since I knew it was on the parade route, I was sure one of those big vehicles had hit people somehow (there were, besides the many vehicles, also two helicopters on the way, meaning it certainly wasn't about a single victim).

 

We picked our bikes and went to take a look, absolutely chaos in the area. Never saw so many services combined together, fire trucks from 20km away, ambulance after ambulance came racing by, people frantically trying to make way for them (the roads weren't really closed yet).

 

While there we heard someone who had been close say that the parade hadn't arrived yet and what seemed to have happened was that a car from the other side came onto the roundabout and simply never turned. "It's a massive drama over there, unbelievable", he said.

 

Quite quickly rumours started spreading of course, the first one turned out to be true: a middle aged (local) woman was behind the wheel and seems to have become unwell. Local security camera showed the car going at high speed right before the roundabout.

 

Plenty of rumours going around in terms of who were involved of course, and people keeping each other up to date to see if they know this or that family and such...

 

Never expected my little town to be big news in the Netherlands, even including some breaking broadcasts, live reporters and everything, damn. By far the biggest thing to happen here in my memory

 

Edited December 23, 2025 by heywoodu

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The driver was a woman 

[heywoodu 16,476]

14 hours ago, bestmen said:

The driver was a woman 

Yes, a local 56-year old woman who likely became unwell. There were no drugs or alcohol in play.

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[bestmen 2,926]

Hahaha ...in Germany they did an enormous hole in wall and stole 30 millions € in this bank 

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/thieves-drill-into-german-bank-vault-make-off-with-millions-2025-12-30/

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Happy 2026 everyone!!!!!! The start of the LA 2028 qualification period, cant wait for the start of the first events.

 

pd: Sorry if im bothering anyone when i publish the long comments about the different sports results, is a hobby i have since 2018 and i usually do it only in my phone but since i change from android to iphone i lost the app where i write everything im starting to do it in here so it cant be saved in some place. But like i say, sorry if its annoying. Happy new year!!

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After Netherlands here is Switzerland

 

Explosion in switzerland , many dead 

 

Switzerland: Deadly bar fire hits Alps resort at New Year

 

https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-deadly-bar-fire-hits-alps-resort-at-new-year/live-75359447

Edited January 1 by bestmen

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around 40 have died just after midnight 2026 

 

 

 

Edited January 1 by bestmen