Comments on: CSI Baarle

CSI Baarle

Skeptic — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:16:27 -0800

Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau has been previously mentioned in MeFi. A historical quirk and geographical jigsaw, these days the complicated border criscrossing this Belgo-Dutch town had become little more than a tourist attraction. What happens, however, when a dead body is found, and nobody knows in which country it lies?

By: anthill

anthill — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:34:22 -0800

See: Bon Cop, Bad Cop

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:38:31 -0800

Wait, I know this one: You don't bury the survivors.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:59:27 -0800

Roosters don't lay eggs.

By: Del Far

Del Far — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:09:24 -0800

Oh my god, why hasn't this been a Law and Order plot yet!? Genius! If they won't use it, I so will write a story based on this.

By: fuzzypantalones

fuzzypantalones — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:08:58 -0800

which side had more of the body on it?

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:11:03 -0800

I so will write a story based on this. You don't even have to go to Europe for the setting. Presenting the Haskell Free Library and Opera House.

By: LogicalDash

LogicalDash — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:25:22 -0800

Alas: The case is now fully in Dutch hands because the body was found in the Dutch half of the building, and the main suspect is Dutch.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:22:57 -0800

My brother lives in Brussels and he's never mentioned this. We'll have to go have a look next time I'm over there.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:13:33 -0800

See: Bon Cop, Bad Cop Just what I was going to say! It was an amusing movie, and so very Canadian/Canadien.

By: wantwit

wantwit — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:44:37 -0800

Hey maybe they should get involved in this jigsaw. I'm sure tips would be greatly appreciated from those two countries who obviously know a lot about managing security across borders.

By: spock

spock — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:32:20 -0800

I don't know about that one, but I know it sure gets perplexing when you find a murder victim on the County Line in Nebraska and the head is in one county and the body is in the other. You would not believe the hassle over who had jurisdiction (neither one wanting it). (True story. My great uncle was the sheriff in one of the said counties).

By: thatwhichfalls

thatwhichfalls — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:47:57 -0800

See: Bon Cop, Bad Cop In a just world that movie was a remake of an underground Tibetan hit - covering the story of a rookie Chinese detective assigned to cover a cross jurisdictional murder with a grizzled and seriously old school Tibetan detective. The Chinese guy would turn out to be the corrupt son of a high-flying government functionary. It would have been called Bön Cop, Bad Cop.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:39:07 -0800

I'm sure I remember reading ages ago about a case in a big city were someone committed suicide by jumping out of a window with a rope around their neck and managed to decapitate themselves. The head and body ended up in two districts as the building was on the boarder between them. The case ended up going to the district with the body (not the head) as they had the larger proportion of the remains.