Wishful thinking on the part of the Daily Mail:
Around 5,000 protesters did their best to interrupt the outdoor meeting and meal between the president and Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel. Eventually shielded from the noise by 40 tons of barbed wire and 12,000 policemen, the pair sat down to dine on a roasted wild boar slaughtered earlier that day, uninterrupted by protesters. Or babies.
There were 5,000 protesters? Wonder why all other reports cite "hundreds" or "500" at most? And 12,000 police officers? Why would you need any barbed wire; that many police would block the streets for blocks in each direction. But somehow 40 TONS of barbed wire was needed?
What a pathetic example of "reporting".
5,000?
***Update: You can find anything on the internet, ie, that 40 tons of razor wire, coiled to 18 inch, would give you........ 40,000 feet of protection. That's about the height commercial airliners fly.
Wonder how the Daily Mail could get this wrong? They had over 6,300 reporters on the scene. And their tape recorded notes used over 49 million miles of audio tape.
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