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Norwegian village celebrates modern breakthrough: its first escalator
www.wtol.com ^ | unknown | Copyright 2005 Associated Press

Posted on 01/13/2006 5:58:55 AM PST by Kurt_Hectic

OSLO, Norway Locals in a mountain town in Norway are celebrating progress today. The village has gotten its first escalator.

The town of Trysil is one of Norway's most popular ski resorts, so its 68-hundred residents are no strangers to ski lifts. But they're all outdoors. The new 50-foot-long escalator is inside the shopping center.

The local newspaper ranks it with the town's first traffic circle. And a member of the Trysil history club puts it on the par with the first time anybody there ate a potato.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: escalator; norway; trysil
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*gets in line to congratulate*
1 posted on 01/13/2006 5:58:56 AM PST by Kurt_Hectic
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To: Kurt_Hectic

More info: the wonderful device is produced in Hamburg to a cost of 1,4 million kroner, it was transported to norway by a mr. Tore Knapkøyen, who was wery proud of his mission, according to the Oslo-newspaper Aftenposten. The paper also reports that spectators have travelled as far as from Elverum (70 kilometer) to witness the ascalator with their own eyes.


2 posted on 01/13/2006 6:05:05 AM PST by Kurt_Hectic (Trust only what you see, not what you hear)
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To: Kurt_Hectic
And a member of the Trysil history club puts it on the par with the first time anybody there ate a potato.

Sounds like a town that could use a little entertainment.

3 posted on 01/13/2006 7:06:22 AM PST by 6SJ7
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aaaaahhh yes, I can remember when we got the first one...
My what a day, we drank a weeks worth of moonshine that day and when we collapsed at the bottom we woke up at the top....four days later and with our hair stuck in the machinery but it was worth it.
4 posted on 01/16/2006 3:13:17 AM PST by XavierXray (Don't mind the dyslexia)
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To: Kurt_Hectic

"It reminds me of the time the American young man was here with the box of ribbed condoms" remarked Bridgette Nordsomjausengoodenfeelun


5 posted on 01/16/2006 3:31:20 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: DainBramage

Nordsomjauwhat?


6 posted on 01/16/2006 3:41:19 AM PST by XavierXray (Don't mind the dyslexia)
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To: XavierXray

goodenfeelun


7 posted on 01/16/2006 3:57:20 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: Kurt_Hectic

Does the village require Israelis to take the stairs?


8 posted on 01/16/2006 3:59:17 AM PST by dagnabbit (Vicente Fox's opening line at the Mexico-USA summit meeting: "Bring out the Gimp!")
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You would have to ask the two largest groups in the government, Friends of Israel and Friends of U.S.A.
When you are done being outfoxed, maybe you'll notice that 90% of all government officials, and all but two ministers are members of these groups.

But if they are fat, I would advice them to take the stairs. if not, they just have to make sure they've paid their government escalator taxes.
9 posted on 01/16/2006 4:06:30 AM PST by XavierXray (Don't mind the dyslexia)
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So this village must not be in Trøndelag?


10 posted on 01/16/2006 4:26:33 AM PST by dagnabbit (Vicente Fox's opening line at the Mexico-USA summit meeting: "Bring out the Gimp!")
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To: XavierXray
Why does the Norwegian government purposely import muslim men to rape Norwegian women?

Muslims and other third worlders commit the largest share of rape there, yet the government keeps bringing them in. Is this the ultimate example of leftist self-hatred in action?

I was in Oslo two years ago. A couple streets could have been sets for the movie "Blackhawk Down", so numerous were the Somalis the weak Norwegians let pour into the country.
11 posted on 01/16/2006 4:33:02 AM PST by dagnabbit (Vicente Fox's opening line at the Mexico-USA summit meeting: "Bring out the Gimp!")
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To: dagnabbit
Hedmark I believe, besides, the so called boycott is nothing more then an appeal to the customers to avoid Israeli products since there is no way for them to stop these products.
BTW, I know off only one Israeli product sold in Norway and thats potatoes, quite good potatoes I might add.
12 posted on 01/16/2006 4:36:33 AM PST by XavierXray (Don't mind the dyslexia)
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I guess you can start with the fact that we have signed a number of agreements that say that if you meet certain requirements that you can apply for asylum.

Then you can follow that one up with another fact, which is that the Norwegian Parliament (left, right, blue, red, orange etc.) does not send people back if there is a remote chance of them being killed by the "government"

Now, as for you visit to Oslo, I can't stop but wonder why the H.... you would want to visit Oslo in the first place!
Starting with the fact that you don't seem to like any of the people that walk the streets there, the actual things to do are nothing compared to other places in Norway.
Bergen has history and culture, Voss has extreme sport folks from around the globe doing cliff-dives and so forth.

Now, the movie Blackhawk down must be the worst propaganda movie ever, I love the Disney (propaganda) cartoon "in the furers face) but that movie was basically meant to outfox.

unf. your rape stats are way off, it would be easy if it was true but it isn't.


And please, if we were cowards, would we have allowed the U.S. to place listening devices here?
Would we be NATO members?
If anything it's the US that is turning its back to its former allies and not the other way around, most Norwegians, including me, see that the war on terror is important but when they have already made up their mind to help and then get "Either your with us or against us", followed up by lies, more lies and even more lies in the UN (when they bother to show up!) it's no wonder that they start to ponder a bit.
OH, and I almost forgot, the US Embassy trying to "compromise" by moving from a street with a lot of transit to another street....with a kindergarten next to it!!
Ignoring the fact that the former Army HQ was offered at a symbolic price.

I was still in the army on 9\11 and there was massive support towards helping our allies, four of my mates where in Afghanistan and three of the same were in Iraq and let's just say that US soldiers did not call them cowards, self-hating, quislings or weak.
13 posted on 01/16/2006 5:00:22 AM PST by XavierXray (Don't mind the dyslexia)
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Muslim Rape Epidemic in Sweden and Norway

So what are the immigrant rape statistics in Norway these days?

Though the government hides the statistics now, the last time it was reported in 2001 or 02, the immigrants were wildly over-represented, committing most of the Oslo rapes. Has it gotten better since then? Doubt it. Even self-censored rags like VG/Dagbladet/Aftenposten can't cover up the steady reports of immigrant-committed rape, gang rape, etc., now plaguing your once-safe land.

The notion that a nation has to destroy itself because it signed various Cold-War-era refugee agreements is plain ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the idea that illegal aliens cannot be sent back to Sweden, Denmark or any of the half-dozen other safe countries they transited before showing up for the generous welfare benefits in Club Norway.

If your interpretation of the refugee agreements means your women get raped far more often, it's time to reinterpret the treaties. If they can't be reinterpreted, abrogate them. What's more important, your citizens' right not be raped, robbed or murdered...or the "right" of some muslim illegal alien to get better welfare than is offered in Germany, Sweden, or Poland?

"Shut up and take your rape Trude, Mr. Mohammad said he's from Somalia, we had to let him in".

14 posted on 01/16/2006 9:46:54 AM PST by dagnabbit (Vicente Fox's opening line at the Mexico-USA summit meeting: "Bring out the Gimp!")
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wow, that was a lot of propaganda and lies on just one page....

U wrote:
"If your interpretation of the refugee agreements means your women get raped far more often, it's time to reinterpret the treaties. If they can't be reinterpreted, abrogate them. What's more important, your citizens' right not be raped, robbed or murdered...or the "right" of some Muslim illegal alien to get better welfare than is offered in Germany, Sweden, or Poland?"

Whats important is that the citizens within the country are safe and those that are not safe and have a right and a need for asylum and\or welfare support is given the help they need, G.W. said: It's the duty of the strong to protect the weak.

Treaties should be renegotiated, reviewed etc, to throw it away requires that it's useless, I don't think they are.

"Has it gotten better since then? Doubt it. Even self-censored rags like VG/Dagbladet/Aftenposten can't cover up the steady reports of immigrant-committed rape, gang rape, etc., now plaguing your once-safe land."

A: When did VG ever shut up about anything?!?

B: Media loves scandal, death, pain and sex, they won't cover up what sells and they DON'T care about what partys view they "support", they only care about the 10kr that people pay to buy it..

c:
My once-safe country needs to create new minimum penalties for many crimes, incl. rape, murder and abuse.
My still quite safe country would be much safer if "people" would stop P...ing each other off.


Best for last:

"The notion that a nation has to destroy itself because it signed various Cold-War-era refugee agreements is plain ridiculous."
But it's worse when that nation (pop. 4.5 million) has been a buffer-zone, safety-net +++ (those listening posts were there to catch nukes on their way to either Europe og America) for another nation (pop 150 million+) and then get called weak, self hating, scared, or anything else from those that they have been standing next to for 60 years...

and besides, it really doesn't count for .... if "someone" doesn't understand that they will probably lose if they don't show at least SOME co-op will towards nations that they really don't have any beef with.... but we'll probably have to wait at least 3 more years for that one.
15 posted on 01/17/2006 3:43:01 AM PST by XavierXray (Don't mind the dyslexia)
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Wow, quite an achievement!! Just wait 'til these folks discover sliced bread! There'll be dancing in the streets!


16 posted on 01/17/2006 3:47:51 AM PST by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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Sliced bread?
What kind of devils work is that?
and I won't even think of dancing in the street, blasphemy!


17 posted on 01/17/2006 3:56:33 AM PST by XavierXray (Don't mind the dyslexia)
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So what percentage of rapes in Oslo are now committed by aliens?

It's a shame you won't protect your own women.

18 posted on 01/17/2006 1:34:27 PM PST by dagnabbit (Vicente Fox's opening line at the Mexico-USA summit meeting: "Bring out the Gimp!")
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This is the 2001 story. Apparently, however, this is no longer an interesting topic for police statistics or government public announcements.

Oslo rape statistics shock

Two out of three charged with rape in Norway's capital are immigrants with a non-western background according to a police study. The number of rape cases is also rising steadily.The study is the first where the crime statistics have been analyzed according to ethnic origin. Of the 111 charged with rape in Oslo last year, 72 were of non-western ethnic origin, 25 are classified as Norwegian or western and 14 are listed as unknown.

Rape charges in the capital are spiraling upwards, 40 percent higher from 1999 to 2000 and up 13 percent so far this year.

Nine out of ten cases do not make it to prosecution, most of them because police do not believe the evidence is sufficient to reach a conviction.

Police Inspector Gunnar Larsen of Oslo's Vice, Robbery and Violent crime division says the statistics are surprising - the rising number of rape cases and the link to ethnic background are both clear trends. But Larsen does not want to speculate on the reasons behind the worrying developments.

While 65 percent of those charged with rape are classed as coming from a non-western background, this segment makes up only 14.3 percent of Oslo's population. Norwegian women were the victims in 80 percent of the cases, with 20 percent being women of foreign background. Larsen said that since this was the initial study examining ethnic make-up there were no existing figures to put the numbers into context. "Meanwhile, it is our general experience that this is an increasing tendency. We note this by the number of time we need to use interpreters in the course of an investigation," Larsen said.

19 posted on 01/17/2006 1:45:17 PM PST by dagnabbit (Vicente Fox's opening line at the Mexico-USA summit meeting: "Bring out the Gimp!")
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To: dagnabbit
quite honestly, I really REALLY don't care where people are from if they commit rape.
This topic is one that is currently under heavy debate since many feel that the sentences are far to low, something I quite agree with.

Other Norwegian crime facts include one that state that over 60% of all convicts in the prisons are foreign and another 25% are of another ethnic background then most Norwegians but are citizens.
Those would fit right into your stats, if it wasn't for the facts that most are either European, American or Slavs!

So basically, I don't really care where the f.. sick bastard was born, what skin color he has or whether or not the victim was male, female, western, Asian and so forth.

If you check more stats from f.ex Nye KriPos then you'll see that there are more then enough things to show that there needs to be added at least 20 years to the max penalty and rape should give life.

I agree with you on one point, there are people that should not be allowed to enter the country, that it should be easier to kick out people that don't belong etc, but I refuse to accept closed borders, "Clean" ethnic societies or anything else that goes against common sense.
There is nothing wrong with having a multi cultural society and having one does not mean that you suddenly get a lot of crime.
If people need asylum, then they should be given asylum.... because thats what the whole point!
And when they do get the protection they need, then they also accept that there are laws to obbide and that if you break those laws then there will a reponse\punishment from society.
20 posted on 01/18/2006 2:21:39 AM PST by XavierXray (Don't mind the dyslexia)
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