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Okay, which of you Scandanavians are responsible this time?

Post by Egbert » Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:21 pm

Drunk Finn Sets Norwegian Fine Record
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 5:05 p.m. ET

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- A Finnish citizen arrested on a public bus while drunk and nearly naked has set an apparent record for unpaid fines in Norway, with an estimated 99 of them, police said Friday.

The man, whose name was not released, is known by police for his tendency to discard pieces of clothing as his level of intoxication increases, the Bergens Tidende newspaper reported.

''He has gotten up to 99 fines,'' police attorney Rudolf Christophersen told the newspaper. ''In the (Bergen area's) Hordaland Police District alone he has $14,260 worth of fines. That must be a record.''

The man, whom police said offered up five different identities, has repeatedly been expelled from Norway, but keeps returning.

In the latest incident, on Wednesday, police received a telephone call from the bus driver in Bergen, the main city on Norway's west coast, who said: ''There is a naked, drunk, difficult Finn causing trouble on board.''

Police found the man dressed only his underpants, and extremely drunk, and are seeking to have him jailed on charges that include indecent exposure, vagrancy, public drunkenness and failing to pay his outstanding fines.

Neither Christophersen nor Bergen police spokesman Trygve Hillestad could immediately be reached for comment.
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Post by Duke » Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:57 pm

I live in Gothenburg. We had a wave of finnish people coming to work in the Volvo factories here in the 60ies and 70ies.

Hence, naked drunk finns are common on "The Garlic Express" that leads to the Duke Mansion.

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Local name for trolley number 4 which goes from downtown to Bergsjön. A part of Gothenburg known for being populated by people from southern Europe or Northern Africa. The use of garlic used to be more common in their food then in the old style Swedish food culture. Nowdays garlic is a more regular spice in Swedish food.
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Post by Duke » Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:59 pm

I should add that the Swedes satire view on Norwegians are that they are gullable and stupid and that Finns are drunk from vodka and constantly carry knifes.
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