Bucharest Police

Look after your motor Mister?

by Craig Turp June 17, 2011 Bucharest

 It’s the fastest growing business in Bucharest: perhaps the only growing business in Romania. ‘Looking after’ people’s cars. Here’s how it works: You find yourself a street – the more central the better – on which there are no official paid parking spaces. (Since the city council got rid of most of the paid car [...]

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Our favourite Bucharest photo. Ever

by Craig Turp January 18, 2011 Bucharest

 We found this gem last week while searching for photos of Bucharest’s buses to use in this post. It was on a forum called Skyscraper City and came with no details: if the photographer gets in touch we will happily credit him or her and buy him a large drink or two. It is a [...]

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It’s Police Week

by Craig Turp August 25, 2010 Bucharest

 It’s Police Week at Bucharest Life. Having already brought to your attention the new hi-tech arm of Bucharest’s crime-fighting boys in blue, and the heartwarming case of a Calarasi policeman going out of his way to put a serious danger to society in hospital and off our streets, news reaches us today that the press [...]

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Bucharest’s finest, now fighting crime on horseback

by Craig Turp August 23, 2010 Bucharest

 Spaga now payable in straw and sugar cubes?

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Romanian police in ‘doing their job’ shock

by Craig Turp June 23, 2010 Bucharest

 Incredible but true. This weekend we saw at least two Romanian policemen doing some real policing, enforcing the laws of land. These shocking events took place outside the Bucuresti Mall, where, as anyone who has driven past will know, taxi drivers routinely make a habit of parking by the traffic lights right outside, forcing two-lane [...]

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Bucharest, Bulgaria, New Year’s Eve, Petarde

by Craig Turp January 3, 2010 Bucharest

 We long gave up caring too much about who we offend, so here goes with our first mildly controversial statement of 2010: Anyone who lets off petarde or fireworks in a public place is a cretin. Long familiar with the lawlessness that is Bucharest on New Year’s Eve, we gave up spending the holidays in [...]

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Nu Bloca Intersectia

by Craig Turp December 9, 2009 Bucharest

 First off, we bet you never knew that the Bucharest police force had its own Facebook page? Well it does, and for what it’s worth, it’s here. Secondly, we bet you never knew that they had made a mildly amusing 30-second commercial to try and encourage the city’s drivers not to block junctions? Well, they [...]

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