It’s nice to be reminded once in a while that the US isn’t the only country in the world where the blatant stupidity of one person in a bureaucracy, government or corporate (however negligible the difference these days), can snowball all out of proportion and totally fuck up a person’s life. And that the media will then report complete falsehoods by dint of having no idea what they’re talking about. Makes your national pride swell up a little, dunnit? No? I thought not.