Idle is a beautiful word. According to Duden, this means: Not knowing what to do and messing around somewhere. So the beautiful word has a negative connotation in everything, at least for decent, hardworking and loyal to the line of citizens. For everyone else, it means freedom. Not knowing what to do is a luxury, because today, when you don’t have time, you don’t know what to do.
They used to say: money is lying on the street. But after almost 56 years of searching, I can say: no. I searched around the wolf, but I never found the money. But hanging can also be useful: for example, in hockey. If, as a striker, you have the instinct to stay in front of the net long enough, you can benefit from it. Goal, for example.
If you are not a hockey player here in Switzerland, things are different there. There, dangling is punished, and specifically for this, one of the facts in the official rulebook is a little tougher: “visual impairment” (official Latin for dangling) of a goalkeeper is punished in Switzerland with a goal annulment, even if the offender is only responsible for one touch of the goal area for a split second .
The official rulebook says: If the offender has spent a significant amount of time in the goal area. The difference between a fraction of a second and a significant amount of time is significant even for slackers. Someone who is standing somewhere, for example, in a square, and still does nothing and does not know what to do, wanders around doing nothing, because he represents a visual obstacle to public order.
But if he walks in circles in the same square, he is at best crazy or eccentric, but not visually impaired. It’s different in Swiss hockey, where players are punished simply for going somewhere. They don’t even have to stop for it.