There was a quite big riot in Budapest, the capitol of Hungary. If you like to read the official story, read this:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/...index.html
My real concern is that I've got a very close friend of mine there. At the time I'm writing this, the situation has settled, no deaths, 10-20 injured, nothing serious the last time I heard.
Anyway, my friend was near the hot spot, he has been sprayed with mace, almost was beaten up by a cop and got hit - if I recall correctly - by a water cannon, but he's OK now. He didn't got arrested.
But I was very terrified at the moments of the high point of the riot. I never had friends near potentialy dangerous places, and I don't know what I would have done if he would be injured. I called him, and actualy didn't know what to say, how to deal with it. But, for now it's over, and I'm happy that he is all right.
Any thoughts?
I don't have any thoughts of what you can do. I just wanted to say, wow! I hope nothing worse happens to your friend, and that they're ok.
I don't have any thoughts of what you can do. I just wanted to say, wow! I hope nothing worse happens to your friend, and that they're ok.
My concerns are that the politicans will provoke another riots and my friend will go and something worse happens. I could never handle this kind of things. I hope it doesn't escalate into shootings.
I really don't know what to say.
I have sort of a similar problem, every time tornado season comes around I get very worried because my grandmother lives right on Tornado Alley in Oklahoma. Growing up there, my mother says she saw tornados every year and got very close to them in many cases, and so this just fuels my fear that something will happen.
What I try to do is not think about it, to think about something else and not worry. If something happens, it'll happen, there's nothing you can do; and you'll hear about it. But probably nothing will happen. There's no point in worrying, so distract yourself and make the worry go away.
That's just my suggestion.
I'd also like to make it clear that I don't mean you shouldn't care. You should care. Just don't make yourself sick with worrying.
I hope everything turns out alright and that no-one dies.
Luai_lashire: thanks, but I'm not sick of worrying. My friend is a strong-willed fellow and this allways helps him with these kind of situations. I hope that this and his luck will stay long enough not to injure. And the bad part: I couldn't contact him for a while (the whole cell-phone system was overloaded).
And I think that this is not as bad as a tornado. Here, "only" 100 people were injured, but everybody survived. Some people lost they'r cars (lot of them was set on fire), but they got out of the MTV (Hungarian Television, not Music TV) building.
Alas my friend was at the destruction of a Soviet monument (nobody knows why it's still standing, we were an occupied nation), got tear gassed, etc., I've said that.
The interresting aspect of the story is that the rioters saved several policemen out of a burning armoured vehicle. They literaly saved them, none of them got beaten, and everybody said that "Hungarian policemen are Hungarians too," and this calmed the rioters.
To be a little on-topic: these kind of things happen often in NTs form an aggressive crowd. I can't think of me being a part of a rioting mass. Even the thoughts of being there makes me anxious. With all the strangers pushing and shouting.