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« Thread Started on Oct 20, 2009, 5:09am »

A ZOMO policeman and his girlfriend were taking a Sunday stroll once, when they came across a mushroom patch. The ZOMO officer then suddenly stopped, pulled out his club....and began violently beating the mushrooms. His startled girlfriend then shouted a question: WHY are you crazily clubbing those mushrooms ? Whereupon the ZOMO policeman answered a reply: Because they were PROVOKING ME !

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« Reply #1 on Oct 27, 2009, 7:38am »

sad story....
good that this is a past

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« Reply #2 on Mar 30, 2012, 12:12pm »

This reminds me of the Pomarańczowa Alternatywa (Orange Alternative), an underground protest movement which was started in Wrocław, a town in south-west Poland and led by Waldemar Fydrych (sometimes misspelled as Frydrych), commonly known as Major (Commander of the Festung Breslau) in the 1980s. Its main purpose was to offer a wider group of citizens an alternative way of opposition against the authoritarian communist regime by means of a peaceful protest that used absurd and nonsensical elements.

By doing this, Orange Alternative participants could not be arrested by the police for opposition to the regime without the authorities becoming a laughing stock. Orange Alternative has been viewed as part of the broader Solidarity movement. Academics Dennis Bos and Marjolein t'Hart have asserted it was the most effective of all Solidarity's factions in bringing about the movement's success.[2]
Initially it painted ridiculous graffiti of dwarves on paint spots covering up anti-government slogans on city walls. Afterwards, beginning with 1985 through 1990, it organized a series of more than sixty happenings in several Polish cities, including Wrocław, Warsaw, Łódź, Lublin and Tomaszów Mazowiecki.
It was the most picturesque element of Polish opposition to Stalinist authoritarianism. It suspended activity in 1989, but reactivated in 2001 and has been active on a small scale ever since.[3]

The Dwarf – the statue of the Orange Alternative symbol at the corner of Świdnicka and Kazimierza Wielkiego streets in Wrocław.

A statue of a dwarf, dedicated to the memory of the movement, stands today on Świdnicka Street in Wrocław, in the place where events took place.

The story goes that dwarft lived in mushrooms, a large mushroom can be a house in German folklore stories.

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