martes, 20 de abril de 2010

FarmVille, the Facebook application that people over the age of 35 just can’t seem to put down

http://jugar-online.blogspot.com/

When you talk about corrupt politicians and pork barrel spending you don’t picture a lazy official blowing off an important meeting in order to feed their virtual hogs, but one Bulgarian council member has lost his job for doing just that.

FarmVille, the Facebook application that people over the age of 35 just can’t seem to put down, has claimed its newest victim. Dimitar Kerin. Kerin has been kicked off the Municipal Committee of Plovdiv after getting caught multiple times tending to his online crops. Not only was the ex-councilman using a city-paid laptop to play what could be the lamest online game since Scrabulous, he decided the best time to milk his cows was in the middle of a budget meeting. Why somebody who lives in a small province in Bulgaria needs to go online for farming is anyone’s guess, seeing as Kerin could have just as easily jumped in his

1985 Yugo GV and drove five minutes in any direction to find a very real field in need of tilling. Kerin’s main defense was that he isn’t the only one on FarmVille, noting that “he had reached only Level 40, whereas Daniel Zhelyazkova, a councilor from the rightist Democrats for Strong Bulgaria party, was already at Level 46.” Hopefully now that he has more time on his hands, Kerin will be able to finally top Mr. Zhelyakova.

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