Invest in Malta – and get shot at by a government minister’s driver for taking out his wing mirror
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November 21, 2014 at 10:29am
Steve Morrison Smith, who is currently being held in a police lock-up after being shot at three times (eyewitnesses heard two shots but the car has three bullet-holes) by the Police Minister’s driver, is a director and shareholder of this company, Waterbus International Ltd. It is the world leader in amphibious technology, and has a factory operation in Malta.
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Just a banana stand
https://www.yahoo.com/travel/what-every-european-union-country-is-the-worst-at-102990636372.html
This guy has found the solution to our traffic problems.
Maybe that’s why he has been shot at.
Forsi this guy is not being held in a police lock-up but is being hosted by Joe Mizzi whilst giving him some new ideas regarding a solution to our traffic problems (sorry, perceptions).
and we shoot him down, literally
Our politicians are so full of shit, they could probably power a fleet of ‘poo buses’ on their own.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-30115137
In these last couple of days my jaw has dropped so many times and so severely that I must be risking dislocation.
Way to go Malta!
Honestly, what’s sickening is locking up a man for 48 hours for questioning after having had a minor car accident with someone as important as Manuel Mallia’s driver visiting his mother.
And to make matters infinitely worse, the man who shot at him three times on public roads is sleeping in his own bed.
Where is the sense of justice and proportionality in this case? I shudder to think what the outcome would have been had the victim of Mallia’s driver had been a black refugee.
I have always been of the opinion that this government’s policies are actually driving foreign investors away from this little rock. But I never imagined it to be this way too; shooting at them.
This is beyond anything imaginable except, maybe, in a banana republic run by baboons supported by minions.
Dan bhal Boffa! Dik proud of it, whatever that “it” is.
And there I was, thinking lager lout.
Wearing Muscat’s hat I would arrive at this conclusion.
Muscat’s damage control team must be very busy trying to contact the Englishman’s lawyer (and British High Commission?) in their bid to hush things up, then convince the Englishman to let Muscat visit him in front of a camera or two (Times of Malta, Malta Today, TVM and Super One).
Mallia will be kept away on some business trip abroad, and turn Muscat into the hero of the whole story, a Maltese political version of Spiderman, sort of.
Just heard this morning on T.V. (not P.B.S. of course) that the people living in the street where the shots were fired have been warned not to `open their mouths’. This is the Malta we are living in once more.
Never did the Nationalist Party speak truer words in an electoral campaign than when it used the slogan ‘Vote PN for Peace of Mind’ or similar.
Every day under a Labour government means tension.
Now that’s news.
I somehow had the feeling that they would threaten the people living on that street.
This is getting to be like the JFK assassination.
Minister Mallia informed the press that background checks are carried out by the police force, officer Sheenan was recomended for the job, he says.
If officer Sheenan is that quick to draw a gun on someone who nicked his wing mirror, there must be something very wrong with the way background checks are made.
Imagine what would have happened if Mr. Smith had rammed into the back of Minister Mallia’s car. Out would jump Sheenan and bang, bang, bang straight between the eyes.
Someone please save us. I can’t take this damned government anymore.
Joe (Finding Oil in One Year) Mizzi may help in controlling the damage done to this foreign investor. Maybe TM will purchase a few amphibian buses from Mr. Steve Morrison Smith
Labour safe for business.
At one point, it occurred to me the one on the bumper could be a parking sensor until Net News included the ministry’s statement showing it circled as one of the bullet holes.
The journalist who went to the tunnel noted that the Insignia had already been put onto the tow truck, notwithstanding the magistrate having just arrived.
Joe Giglio was clear yesterday. If Muscat chose to come down on Sheehan, saying that he is angry and disgusted and all that, why the inquiry?
Joe Giglio made a very logical argument for those who have some sense. Does the prime minister have any?
Is this one of minister Joe Mizzi’s alternative modes of transport shot down then? Poor chap, one fiasco after another. He must be jinxed.
Inbahhruh tghid?
Mr Morrison Smith should consider creating a car for the minister.
These are the specs.
It has to be big and prominent, with large doors and leg room for an oversize unfit body.
The shell must be heavily armoured.
The driver should be dressed like a member of ISIS, so commuters will know that he will shoot first and ask questions later.
A large pair of bull horns should do the trick on the front windshield, as protection from the evil eye of all those who are jealous of his half a million in cash and his Romanian catalogue bride.
And most important, it should have no side mirrors, so no one will be shot.
Here’s an idea, and this one comes with its own Manuel Mallia double.
http://pics.imcdb.org/0is78/dukeseps111116zh.924.jpg
I remember the time in the 80s that a Briton who had a particular make and model of car was given an offer for it by a Labourite but didn’t wish to sell.
He received a bomb threat and with it a note to leave the island within 24 hours.
He did.
Likewise, he had invested in Malta.
Instead of shooting at Mr Morrison Smith and detaining him in police custody, they should be consulting him on the public transport service and flooded Maltese roads.
Well the government had said it wanted to encourage niche tourism. I suppose this would be along the lines of the ‘undiscovered tribes’ tourism where a bunch of idiots are taken through the Amazon to make ‘first contact’ with a tribe untouched by civilisation.
Only our niche tourism consists of first contact with a southern Mediterranean cowboy, spaghetti-Western style, who brandishes a gun, chases you at high speed, tries to run you off the road, shoots at you and then organises your arrest and subsequent detainment by his friends in the police force for ummm, haven’t quite worked that part out yet.
Oh yeah, welcome to Malta. Next stop: 5am brawl at a Rabat pastizzi shop with the President of the Law Commission, the chairman of the Malta Council of Science and Technology and a couple of tarts from Hal Ghaxaq.
Way to go, Malta.
Another severe blow to the already dwindling FDI
Kemm int pastaza u injoranta. Jekk xi hadd jaghmel xi haga hazina igifieri kulhadd hazin? Minflokk tipprova tghin lil pajjizek jimxi l quddiem, tikteb artikli hekk biex tirridikulah.
Dan il-lejl hlomt b’Wied ic-Cawsli.
Heard this guy Sheenan is known as a Kiesah.
Ah, well, that changes things then.
That’s a good reason to shoot him down, isn’t it?
Pull out the old posters, guys: British Go Home!
Thank god he did not shoot at the bus.
He might have sunk it.
This man will have to take his business elsewhere as if his amphibious vessels start getting shot at by Manuel Mallia’s employees, he’s in serious trouble.
We shoot at foreigners except for the Chinese – in that case the government would roll out the red carpet and organise protection at the taxpayers’ expense irrespective of the activity done in Malta; such as buying a passport or trading in slave labour.
Tghid lil Peppi jhalluh jaghmel programm fuq dan l-incident ? E bilhaqq – dak lahaq bieghlhom il-bajd wara l-elezzjoni .
Le dak fuq George Pullicino jaghmel programm ghax kien attakkat min Konrat. Imma forsi Pullicino l-haruf tas-sagrificcju