Another one:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03262009/news/worldnews/le_hostage__161399.htm

The business leaders in France better watch their necks.

In a scene that could have been pulled straight from "Les Miserables," a mob of French workers has taken a company official hostage in a desperate attempt to mute the impact of layoffs.

It's the second so-called "bossnapping" in a week.

On Tuesday, the revolutionary French union members stormed the suburban Paris office of 3M company plant director Luc Rousselet and barricaded him inside.

...

The French are suffering the same economic woes as the United States and the rest of the world.

But unlike Americans -- who take their anger to talk radio -- the French are taking it to the street with angry demonstrations.

So much for making fun of the French for being wimps.

Class warfare in France isn't a new thing...

But the French standing up to a foreign power isn't something that has happened since WWII.

Still, I wonder how well that would go over here in the U.S....

heh I was in France once during a trucker riot. It was not pretty. They all got their trucks and clogged all the major arteries to the city I was in. Nothing moved unless you were on foot.

I think in the US the people who suffered b/c of riots would probably wind up being more of a handful than the rioters!

Class warfare in France isn't a new thing...

But the French standing up to a foreign power isn't something that has happened since WWII.

Still, I wonder how well that would go over here in the U.S....

Hmmmm...haven't stood up to a foreign power since WWII? Do you mean the soviets?

Another one:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03262009/news/worldnews/le_hostage__161399.htm



So much for making fun of the French for being wimps.

uh hello.. the french beating up other french still is not very manly.. I am sure they took turnes throwing white flags at each other.

'heh I was in France once during a trucker riot.'

- Been there. The trucker's are a f*cking nightmare. Honestly.