Bush BBQ at the center of German lawsuit

[meegbear]

A BBQ dinner of wild boar and beer, held for President Bush four years ago, is at the center of a lawsuit to be decided in Germany next week.

In 2006, on his way to the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Bush toured Germany's Baltic Coast. Later in the evening, he was treated to a feast of wild boar with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the northern town of Trinwillershagen. At the time, the only protests regarding the BBQ came from a few hundred anti-war activists who greeted the president on his arrival.

But when it was reported that the BBQ's bill came to a reported 8.7 million euros, one taxpayer felt he'd been overcharged. Using Germany's freedom of information law, he filed a request to see the exact breakdown of expenditures

His request was originally denied for security reasons. Some 12,000 police officers from several German states were called in for protection at the event.

According to The Local, a court in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania could decide this week whether or not to release the cost breakdown of the BBQ.

When the cost of dinner was later revealed, some in the German press dubbed it "the world's most expensive BBQ."

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[Gman]

1. If Bush wasn't so hated it wouldn't have been so expensive

[Angry Dragon]

2. I believe the bulk of the bill

was for all the German beer that bush drank

[Turbineguy]

3. She should have

picked Jeff Gannon. She would have enjoyed his massage more.

[LiberalFighter]

4. I wonder if Merkel will go down into the toilet now.