Imported Rape

This is hardly the Greeks’ fault, but the news is interesting.

The UK Foreign Office is warning the British that there’s been an increase in rapes of British girls on the Greek islands.

Sexual offenses and rapes have more than doubled in the last decade (39 last year; 17 in 1998).

The only problem with these numbers is that the number of British tourists has also more than doubled in these years and in the majority of these cases, the offenders are also British.

Human Error

A ferry crashed into charted reefs in the Aegean sea, again.

Unlike the last two Greek ferries that crashed and caused severe casualties, no-one was injured this time round.

Is this is a sign that some ship-owners are learning from the past mistakes and training their ship staff better? Or was this pure luck that the ship did not sink and therefore there were no fatalities?

Unlike other countries that get hit by natural disasters, we manage to make it a mess on our own, without needing to involve mother nature.

So with no tsunamis, no tornadoes and only but a few earthquakes, we manage to damage our tourism with old ferries and “Human Error”, the number one factor that we get to blame in all accidents.

I wonder: Is the anonymous “human error” excuse still valid for messing things up in other European countries? Or do people actually take responsibility for their actions and the actions of their subordinates?

I mean, surely, in this age of technology, wouldn’t it really make more sense to invest in more automated systems in the transportation industry, so that we rely less in the human factor, since it’s so error-prone?