Smash and shout: Dutch find new ways to vent COVID-19 frustrations

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Smash and shout: Dutch find new ways to vent COVID-19 frustrations
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One swinging a sledgehammer and the other a crowbar, twin brothers Steven and Brian Krijger grin as they take turns pulverising a Peugeot 106 spray-painted with the words 'F*** COVID'.

Twin brothers Steven and Brian Krijger use hammers to scrap a car to express their frustration as the Netherlands undergoes another lockdown in Vijfhuizen, Netherlands January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Piroschka van de WouwAMSTERDAM, Jan 6 - One swinging a sledgehammer and the other a crowbar, twin brothers Steven and Brian Krijger grin as they take turns pulverising a Peugeot 106 spray-painted with the words "F*** COVID".

Dutch bars, restaurants and most stores have been closed since mid-December, when curbs took effect that the government - battling to contain record numbers of coronavirus cases - is not due to review until Jan. 14."There is nothing to do these days," said Brian. "We can't work because, we own a bar and we are closed. So we thought we'd let some of that frustration go and smash a car.

"The minute that they start wrecking the car, we ask them to close their eyes, to feel their feet on the floor, feel the power, every vein in your body, feel what you are doing, and in that way to try to get it out of your life." Facing into the wind side by side with Julie as it whipped off the sea, client Rozemarijn Kardijk jumped up and down yelling until she ran of breath while trying to suppress a laugh.

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