Artanis, what is going on in Norway...

[The Gaffer]

Well, that bloke looks too young, so I reckon it must've been Yngvar. The photos did have that "taken in my 70s heyday" feel about them.

Originally posted by Ruinel
AHH!! DAMN!!! *shudder* TAKE IT AWAY!!! AHHHHH!!!!

Gaffer, how long until the nightmares stopped? *shudder*

Well, eventually I just learned to accept my fate and have put photos of him above the bed and under my pillow in case I have any problems in the trouser department.

I should point out that apart from that, and the insane licensing laws, Norway was tremendous.

[Dúnedain]

I think the UFO's invaded this thread as well

[Jonathan]

Has the mad cow disease come to Norway, or are the cows just pissed off?

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/lo...ticleID=353179

In a bizarre series of incidents, two farmers in different parts of the country were hospitalized after being attacked by cows. Elsewhere, four men narrowly missed having their car crushed by a crash-landing cow.

Friday saw the first attack in the odd cow crime wave. Stian Skoglund, 23, was bashed and trampled by a furious cud-chewer. Stian was helping his girlfriend with her summer job on a farm in Belta in Ã…snes when the attack occurred.

"The cow attacked me. I was going to scare up the cows at about four in the afternoon and chase them over to where they are milked twice a day," Stian recalled.

As he approached he noticed that one of them was uneasy. He made eye contact with the animal and tried to calm it. Instead, the beast became provoked and charged.

"The cow butted me and I fell," Stian said. He got up and tried to escape but the cow again knocked him to the ground before it began to hop and trample him. The cow shattered one of his legs just four centimeters below the knee. Skoglund also suffered several broken ribs, cuts and bruises. The attack finally stopped when he played dead.

Now he wonders if the attack might have been connected to a job he did a few days earlier when he drove away the body of a calf that had died on the farm.

"Maybe it was her motherly instincts being aroused. I have also heard that I shouldn't have made eye contact with her, that only provokes them," Skoglund said.

A 45-year-old farmer in Nordby, Raelingen was hospitalized Tuesday in stable condition after an encounter with a cow he found leaving Jahr farm. The animal first charged his wife. After waving his arms to distract the animal, the farmer found himself being knocked to the ground.

"The cow went berserk and couldn't be stopped. The farmer was thrown into the air and landed injured on the ground," a witness said.

While terrified witnesses tried in vain to calm the rampant cow others contacted authorities who sent an ambulance and a medical helicopter. A veterinarian was also summoned. He tranquilized the animal and a decision about it future is likely today.

The attack at Jahr farm comes a year after a nearby farmer was trampled to death by several bulls.

A flying - and landing - cow accounted for a close encounter with death on road E39 near Rogaland on Monday night.

Four men traveling in a car saw only a large shadow in the sky before a massive impact shook the ground. Driver Olav Kjeldstad managed to avoid hitting the object, looked behind him and saw a cow in the road.

Police deduced that the cow must have fallen from a ten-meter high cliff overhanging the road. The animal only managed a few moos before dying of its injuries.

"I was pretty shaken afterwards but I have to admit we had a laugh as well. The whole thing was tragicomic," Kjeldstad said.

[Falagar]

The cows are coming! Rebellion!

[Artanis]

Dúnedain, how do you dig up these articles? I read Aftenposten every day but I cannot recall having read this.

[BeardofPants]

Norway? More like Snoreway!
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/29/

Lol.

[Artanis]

OMG!

[Rían]

Originally posted by The Gaffer
....What I wasn't prepared for was the six giant (thrice life-size, full-length) photographs of said entertainer, captured in various on-stage comedy poses and facial girns, which were mounted on the pitched ceiling above the bed on both sides. No matter where you were in the room, his massive visage was there, leering at you like Big Brother in some surrealist dystopia.

What a nightmare! Ugh! I think I would have left; hang the expense!

[Jonathan]

Originally posted by BeardofPants
Norway? More like Snoreway!
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/29/

Haha, I've seen that little film before .
I just found a region on NationStates.net which is named Lions and Tigers of Kenya . Click the link, they mention Norway

[BeardofPants]

LMAO - man that clip is the cutest thing ever. *Goes off on a 'mission' to make everyone clicky linky*

[Spock]

...ho ho ho....

[Jonathan]

Soldiers amused themselves killing dogs

Norwegian soldiers in Kosovo filmed each other while they amused themselves by using dogs as live targets.

(TV 2 Nettavisen)The film containing these incidents is currently circulating among Norwegian Kosovo veterans, according to the Norwegian paper VG. The video has shocked both the Norwegian military leadership and animal rights activists.

According to the paper, the soldiers on the video are amusing themselves shooting dogs in full view of children.

In one shot, two armed Norwegian soldiers are standing about one meter from a tied up dog which is wagging its tail, barking happily.

Without any apparent reason, one of the soldiers shots and kills the dog. The soldiers smile and laugh.

«The shooting of the dogs was not authorized and should not have occurred» said Steinar Hannestad, head of Situasjonssenteret at the Ministry of Defense, to the paper.

Hannestad was battalion commander for Norwegian forces in Kosovo in 2000.

Stray dogs have allegedly been a problem in Kosovo, and in that connection there have been organized hunts, but Hannestad said it is hardly that which is depictured on the video.

Beate Midttun, assisting spokesperson at Forsvarsstaben, said the incidents on the tape will be investigated.

This is sad . Needless to say, I find it pretty disturbing and was wondering what the hell is going on in Kosovo, jeez...
Falagar, please explain
^ these comments are almost identical to the ones that Dúnedain and Falagar posted in the What's up with Sweden? thread

There is a video at http://www.vg.no/video. It's the video named "Sjokkvideo med norske soldater i Kosovo", second video from the top. In it you can see dogs happily wagging their tails as if they wanted to play with the soldiers before the soldiers shoot them
A soldier in the video says "Good, damned good shot" after a dog has been killed, sounding like he's in high spirits.

[Ruinel]

Very very distrubing... to say the least. I'm truely upset. I hope these soldiers are court martialed!

One of the dogs was at his dog house at his own house. Wagging his tail. And then "pow!" shot dead.

I'd beat the tar out of anyone who shot my Buster.

[Falagar]

Originally posted by Jonathan
Soldiers amused themselves killing dogs

This is sad . Needless to say, I find it pretty disturbing and was wondering what the hell is going on in Kosovo, jeez...
Falagar, please explain
^ these comments are almost identical to the ones that Dúnedain and Falagar posted in the What's up with Sweden? thread

There is a video at http://www.vg.no/video. It's the video named "Sjokkvideo med norske soldater i Kosovo", second video from the top. In it you can see dogs happily wagging their tails as if they wanted to play with the soldiers before the soldiers shoot them
A soldier in the video says "Good, damned good shot" after a dog has been killed, sounding like he's in high spirits.

They were supposed to shoot dogs with rabies, and it got a bit out of hand. And of course we could do a deeper psycological analyzis of these soldier's mental health...

Explanation: There are sick people in this world.

[Jonathan]

Originally posted by Ruinel
I hope these soldiers are court martialed!

They weren't. The Ministary of Defence appointed a commission that concluded no rules were broken when the soldiers shot the dogs. The civilian population had asked the soldiers to help them put down the dogs and apparently they did so appropriately. Though recording it and adding music to the video was disturbing to say the least.

http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=227473

[Jonathan]

http://www.iht.com/articles/535124.html

It's all over the news here - two of Edvard Munch's paintings have been stolen from Oslo's Munch museum. The paintings are no others than 'Madonna' and one of four versions of the world famous 'The Scream'.

Ten years ago, thieves managed to steal a version of 'The Scream' and they demanded a ransom. The police managed to get the painting back within a few months though. Hope the police can manage to get the painting back this time as well.

[Artanis]

I hope the paintings will come back too - it would be a terrible loss for us otherwise. I expect the thieves to go for a ransom this time also, I don't see how they'll manage to sell paintings like that. There's no market for stolen paintings in Norway, and it'll be extremely difficult for the burglars to smuggle them out of the country.

Those paintings are a part of our national heritage - I feel attacked and hurt by this theft.

[sun-star]

I was very sorry to hear about this. Hope they get them back soon

[Nerdanel]

i too do hope the paintings will be found and returned to the museum. i heard that there were no alarm-systems around these paintings, that it was rather easy for the thieves to take them. is that true? (not trying to blame anyone else but the thieves here, just wondering)

[Spock]

Jeez, fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, shame on me.
It would seem no lesson was learned all those many years ago.