Posted on 02/08/2005 7:25:53 AM PST by franksolich
Teenagers attacked police after party
Four teenagers in northern Norway are charged with assaulting two police officers, both physically and verbally, after a party in a private home last weekend. The police were trying to help ambulance personnel get two injured girls to a hospital.
The incident occurred in Fauske, Nordland County, around midnight on Friday. The police had been called out to assist an ambulance team that earlier had been called to help two girls hurt at the party.
Police wouldn't comment on the nature of the girls' injuries, or on how they were inflicted. They would say, however, that they were serious enough that they needed rapid transport to a hospital for treatment.
"It was critical for one of the girls," said Fauske sheriff Petter Grønås. "It was a matter of trying to save her life."
But when the police tried to get them into the ambulance, they were hindered by several of the party-goers. Grønås says the two police officers were pushed and shoved, and one of them was jumped on by four or five of the teenagers, who also hurled a barrage of verbal threats.
They now face charges of interfering with a police operation, assaulting a police officer and interfering with the work of ambulance personnel.
It remained unclear why the teens went on the attack. Some said later they were merely frustrated because they wanted to help.
I am touched by the last sentence of the story, and it seems credible to me--I am sure policemen and medical personnel even here in America have to deal overmuch with people "wanting to help," when the best "help" they can offer is by getting out of the way.
In New York they don't have that problem. Nobody wants to help.
This is clearly a case where the medical professionals and police should have stepped back and left it to the amateurs to render aid to these teenage girls :-)
"Ping" for the Norway ping list.
Now we know why Monday is a slow news-day in Norway, and thus the two lame offerings yesterday; too many parties going on in Norway over the weekend, and hence too many hangovers.
I apologize for the "quality" of the offerings yesterday, but at least now we know nothing happens in Norway, our steadfast allies in the War against terror, and usually generally most of the time commonsensical people, on Mondays.
Yeah, sure, I'm certain that while not wanting to "help" is indicative of a selfish society, on the other hand, most cops and medical personnel would just as soon most people turn around and go the other way, so they can do their jobs.
Any info as to why the girls had to go to the hospital?Are the kids alright?Just enough info to peek my curiosity.Is this "party" behavior typical of Norweigan youth?I recall reading a few yrs back about a suspected serial reindeer rapist on the loose in Norway.Again no follow up!Left hangin in FL.
I assume, sir, from reading between the lines--something on which I became "expert" while in the former Soviet Union a few years ago--the Norwegian lassies had overdosed on the aquavit, and the blood-alcohol level so high they were perhaps probably comatose.
If it had been a fist-fight, or something of a sexual-attack, I am sure the newspaper would have reported those things, but because the newspaper--this "Aftenposten," the finest newspaper in all of Norway--omitted any details, it was probably perhaps something so "routine" as to not need mention.
Whoa. I just re-read your post, sir.
A "reindeer rapist" on the loose in Norway?
The near-two weeks I have been maintaing the Norway ping list (you are cordially invited to join, sir), the only "reindeer" story I have found, dealt with radioactive reindeer, and that story was five years old.
Those freakin' Norgies are at it again - a complete lack of regard for law and order!
At first, I thought they were our friends: Norway is the Land of Vikings!
Then, they became an annoyance: Norway over taxes their liquor.
Now, they've become the scourge of this board: Norway is the Land of Retards!
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
In the land of the midnight sun, the days grow darker and colder in winter, people get depressed, and there's a natural temptation to escape it by drinking. That said, this isa story about too much teenage drinking that could conceivably happen anywhere.
Well, sir, yes, this seems to be typical of northern lands with little sunshine during the winter, but I wonder if also some of it might be due to a lack of responsibility in the personal life (in America, in Canada, in Siberia, in Scotland, as well as in Norway).
Our moods, our perceptions, are formed by our environment, and yes, long dark cold nights can have a powerful influence on how we feel and conduct ourselves.
But that is only part of it.
There are other things which affect our moods, our perceptions--we each make, "create," a great part of our environment, and while one cannot change the environment that lays around outside of himself, he can change the environment within himself.....which should help in easing the depression and melancholia of those long dark cold nights.
Some of the most exciting times in my life have been in the dead of winter; some of the most boring times in my life have been during the middle of summer--and I think this all has to do with the "inner environment," which one can change, alter, remodel, or keep as it is, whatever works.
But getting decrepitly sauced so as to dispel the winter gloominess, well, surely sir, there has to be better ways.
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