'Fart' costs bank 100,000 dollars -

Nettavisen - ^ | August 28, 2003 | Hanne Dankertsen

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SWEDEN: Fart costs bank 100,000 dollars Hanne Dankertsen 28.08.03 11:16, ny 28.08.03 11:17

A fart was the start of a staff conflict that ended up costing the Swedish national bank NOK 760,000 (USD 100,000) in compensation.

According to computer technician Göran Andervass, 44, a colleague visited his office and let out a big, stinky fart, Aftonbladet reports.

Andervass thought the incident was provoking and shouted at his colleague.

After the fart and the following shouting, Andervass and his colleague were called in to a meeting with their boss in the national bank.

"The boss wanted to know why I had been shouting at my colleague. I explained what it was all about, but my colleague would neither admit nor confirm that he had farted", Andervass told Aftonbladet.

The incident was the beginning of a serious conflict, a long sick notice and exclusion from the office.

Göran Andervass was fired from his job on 20 December 2001. According to the human resource department in the bank, the reason was "personal issues".

The bank thinks Andervass was away sick a lot of the time and that he was not following the rehabilitation plan presented to him by a doctor and the social security office. According to Andervass, there was no such rehabilitation plan.

Göran Andervass sued the national bank, and the court sentenced the bank to pay him NOK 760,000 compensation.

[PatrickHenry]

I don't know why this thread was moved. If ever a story qualified as "breaking news" this one does.

[lelio]

My dog farts on a regular stinky basis,

There's 100 large in a German bank just waiting to be collected.

[shhrubbery!]

'Scuse the off topic rambling, but this reminds me of high school German class (and no, not because we ate knackwurst und sauerkraut in there).

The class always cracked up over the declension of the verb "fahren" (to drive). It went like this:

First person singular: "ich fahre" (I drive)
Second person singular: "du fährst" (you drive)
Third person singular: "er fahrt" (he drives)

If I'm not mistaken, "fart" is Swedish third person singular for 'drive' too.

Looks like the Norskie word for fart is even better than ours: 'promp'

Prompe-straff til 760.000 kroner

[Fart-fight to the tune of 760,000 crowns]

En promp ble starten på en arbeidskonflikt som tilslutt kostet den svenske riksbanken 760.000 kroner i erstatning.

[longshadow]

I don't know why this thread was moved. If ever a story qualified as "breaking news" this one does.

Yeah, as soon as the MODS got "wind" of this thread, it was doomed.

;-)

[Scott from the Left Coast]

The problem is that they don't allow dogs in the office.

If there was a dog in the room, there'd never have been a problem between the two.

[Prof Engineer]

ping

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

my colleague would neither admit nor confirm that he had farted

Don't they know, "He who smelt it, dealt it!"

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

You may find this amusing...

[PatrickHenry]

Yeah, as soon as the MODS got "wind" of this thread, it was doomed.

The situation is very disquieting.

[ErnBatavia]

THIS is the mostest bestest use of this particular Ping List yet!

Pfffffft

[mikrofon]

Mr. Andrevass really should have been more forgiving -- after all, what's passed is passed...

[PatrickHenry]

I agree. The incident should have been allowed to dissipate.

[Charles Henrickson]

Hej! to the Swedish Ping List.

[Charles Henrickson]

I laughed when I saw a FART HINDER sign in Göteborg last summer! It translates as "Speed Bump." The Swedish word fart simply means "speed."

[Charles Henrickson]

[martin_fierro]

It translates as "Speed Bump." The Swedish word fart simply means "speed."

Danke Gott for your translation.

Because I thought those humps were ... well, something else.

[Charles Henrickson]

Here is the link to the story in the Swedish newspaper, Aftonbladet ("The Evening Paper"):

Priset för en prutt: 850 000 kronor
("The Price for a fart: $100,000")

And here is the "fartee" (not the "farter"):

Göran Andervass

[Charles Henrickson]

[shhrubbery!]

Great sign! I'm going to have my son enlarge that on photoshop and print out a couple for our bathrooms.

[shhrubbery!]

I should've said that sign is a crack-up.