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Posted on 02/11/2009 6:25:10 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Police in northern Sweden broke open the door of a hostel on Friday night after they mistook the sound of an opera singer practising her scales for the heartrending screams of a woman under attack.
Police officers passing the Gamla Fängelset hostel in Umeå became suspicious when they saw a man apparently loitering at the entrance at around midnight.
When the man entered a door code to gain access to the hostel, the officers approached the entrance to investigate. It was then that they heard a woman's high-pitched screams coming from one of the rooms, local newspaper Västerbottens-Kuriren reports.
"They thought somebody in there was in distress and made a decision to raid the premises," police spokesman Peder Jonsson told the newspaper.
But when they forced open the door of the hostel, the police officers encountered the members of a South African choir in the kitchen cooking food.
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classical music ping? ha!
ROFLMAO
Well, it ain’t over ‘til the fat lady screams.
Having several friends who are/have been opera singers (one travels the world singing and teaching) - this mistake is entirely understandable to me. ;-)
I can see how that could happen. There's nothing more horrible than the sound of the "trained" human voice.
Now I understand why I’ve never developed a taste for Opera.
Not all opera is the same. Some of it quite soft and gentle. She just may have been a lousy singer.
Maybe so. But, I’ve still not developed a taste for Opera.
At least they did not mistake her for a mating moose.
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