Archive for the 'In the news' Category

Man’s best friend?

Published on January 12th, 2008

In the newspaper, there was a story about a man who wanted to get into a shop after closing hours.

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Over-zealous police arrests man with badges

Published on June 4th, 2007

Recently, a young man was arrested and later prosecuted for wearing a jacket with the wrong symbols.

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Police statements

Published on May 22nd, 2007

As soon as something has happened, and you read about the gory details in the news, the police always have an interesting statement to make.

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Man’s best friend?

Published on May 16th, 2007

Recently, it read in a paper that man got mightily upset when he got to a local store early in the morning, to find it closed. What did he do? He took his dog and threw it at the window of the store!

Man, I wonder that wrong that dog had done in its previous life…

10-year old raped on Christmas Eve

Published on December 29th, 2006

In Sweden, a 10-year old girl was raped on Christmas Eve. What the hell’s wrong with people?! Great going, rapist, you just ruined a beautiful holiday for that poor girl for the rest of her life.

Singing eunuch tax-collectors

Published on November 24th, 2006

Apparently, in some distant area in India, they have problems with people not paying the taxes. What do they do? They send eunuchs there to stand outside the business in question to sing and dance? The result? Apparently more people pay now…

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Boys forcing their way to sex

Published on November 23rd, 2006

A recently conducted survey in a suburb just outside of Stockholm amongst 15-year old boy shows that:

17% has at least once forced their way to have sex with a girl.

Naturally, it’s in the eye of the beholder what “forcing your way to have sex” actually means, but I still find it enormously upsetting. What the hell’s wrong with you?

Kids see nude sculpture: teacher fired

Published on October 13th, 2006

Dejan gave me a tip about something outrageous: a teacher was fired after the students saw a nude sculpture. At a museum!

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Bush vs. Darwin

Published on October 8th, 2006

As some of you probably noted when it happened, George W. Bush, to some degree (simply put), questioned Darwin and the theories usually referred to as Darwinian evolution.

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Tenting to get into IKEA

Published on September 25th, 2006

A while ago another IKEA store opened in Sweden, in a small county with roughly 46 000 people living there. And, believe it or not, people were actually tenting to get in. Seriously, tenting to get into IKEA…

Sheesh, talk about having your priorities wrong.

Debra Lafave

Published on September 13th, 2006

I guess most of you have heard the story about Debra Lafave: she was the then 23-year old teacher that had sex with one of her 14-year old students, and was later charged with “lewd and lascivious behavior.”

My Take? Every boy in the world dream about that the same thing would happen to them!

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U as in USA

Published on September 8th, 2006

A little conspiracy theme for you here… After the happenings of September 11th took place, many Swedes noted that the spelling of Usama Bin-Laden was different in Swedish newspapers compared to the US ones.

For some reason, the “Usa” part was removed from the American spelling…

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Beat the gay out of him

Published on August 30th, 2006

Recently in Sweden a father was charged for beating his eight-year old boy. The reason? For playing with dolls and girls.

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Americans ‘too fat for x-rays’

Published on August 25th, 2006

According to a study, the Americans are too fat for x-rays, and the US government says 64% of the population are obese. This has lead to necessary x-raying and ultrasounds being abandoned.

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