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IKEA ~ From smallest to biggest

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The opening of a new IKEA store is usually a small-scale event with the odd bargain hunter or two looking for a deal, but the new store in Odense on Funen is drafting in the police, Home Guard and first aid workers on its grand opening Wednesday.

Odense has long held the record for the smallest IKEA store in the world, but that has changed into being the largest venue for the Swedish furniture retailer in Denmark.

The project leader for the opening expects 100,000 visitors in the first four days.

Both the Home Guard and Funen Police will be on site for the first four days. The Home Guard will help control traffic and police will be there to help and advise motorists with parking and stopping.

I need to go to IKEA too to get some things for my upcoming refreshing of my home. But I will sure as hell not go to Funen to get it. I just take my local store, where I know they've got what I want. :yes:

The Skull

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A German couple found a skull on the beach in Denmark recently. They thought it was a very old skull, but it isn't. The skull has plastic fillings in its teeth, which means it must be the skull of a person who has lived in recent times.

The skull will be sent to the medico-legal institute - to make sure they get proper impressions of the teeth.

The skull is intact, and therefore there is no immediate evidence that the person has been victimized - so the police doesn't think it's the result of a crime.

The police says the finding place doesn't has to be the subject of further studies, because there is no indication that the rest of the skeleton is in the area.


So tell me this: If the skull's "owner" hasn't been victimized, where the hell is the rest of the skeleton???

Air Fare War

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Ryan Air is the biggest in Europe now, mainly because of their very low prices. The problem with the low prices is, that you often pay much more than is advertised with. Lots of non-optional extras added to the advertised prices makes the fares way more expensive that first expected.

Let me give you an example. Everybody has to pay a "wheelchair"-fee of 45 DKK (6 EUR), no matter if you are disabled or not, or in a wheelchair or not.

If you want to travel from Jutland to London in February, the advertised price is 2 DKK (0.27 EUR). But if you want to bring luggage, you'll have to pay 240 DKK (32 EUR). So with taxes and the extra additions, the price is 701 DKK (94 EUR) - 35,000 percent more than the advertised price.

Big companies will do anything they can to steal costumers from each other, and the best thing for them is that the prices aren't clear, so it's harder for the costumers to compare.

As a consumer I want clear prices, that's much better for the competition, and therefore for the consumers! So stop telling us we can buy an air fare for less than a Euro when we can't!

What is text messages for??

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A heavily pregnant woman received an SMS message just two weeks before she was due to give birth, informing her that her baby would be taken into care by child welfare authorities.

The 32-year-old woman is a previous addict and has been subject to careful monitoring by the local council and health authorities during her pregnancy. She has also been subject to regular drug tests during that time, which her lawyer said the woman was willing to undertake for fear of losing the baby.

However, the Council in Mid-Jutland contacted the woman via text message saying the baby would be taken from her immediately after the birth. The council said that it usually contacted residents by letter or telephone, but had not been successful in this case, so the decision was taken to send an SMS to the woman.

The woman’s lawyer said she feared it was a sign that that the authorities were too afraid to break the bad news to the mother personally and purposefully chose an impersonal way of communication.

But head of the council’s child and family department, said that it was not the case, and had advised the caseworker in question about the correct procedure for contacting clients.

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Honestly - bad messages shouldn't be given via sms. Not break ups, firings or other bad news. :mad:

Mama, I just killed a dog...

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Police are considering charging both the owner and the killer of a dog that had its throat slit for attacking another dog.

An American bulldog jumped out the window of a house and attacked a small terrier this weekend. As the terrier’s owner tried to help it, another man arrived on the scene and slit the throat of the bulldog, killing it instantly. :eyes:

Police said they were trying to find out if the man was armed with a pocket knife or kitchen knife before pressing charges. It was likely he would be charged with a violation of the weapons law and vandalism.

The owner of the bulldog was also likely to be charged, even though he wasn’t present at the time of the attack. According to police, he had previously been reported for not properly controlling his animals.

Local police spokesman said the police had a duty to charge anyone who had broken the law:

"It's not up to the police to judge if the man with the knife did what he did with the best intentions. Our opinion has no relevance for the case."


What do you think? Is it alright to kill a dog that attacks another dog??

Paedophile suspect

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The Nationalist Socialist Movement of Denmark (DNSB) has excluded one of its prominent members after suspicions of an "inappropriate relationship" with a 12-year-old girl.

The singer of Danish Nazi band Daneskjold is alleged to have had the relationship with the daughter of a friend, who visited the 32-year-old numerous times at his Copenhagen apartment, including staying overnight.
In a message on the DNSB website, chairman Jonni Hansen, said that the singer would not stay away from the girl, despite repeated requests from DNSB and her parents.

The case has now been reported to the police, but Jonni Hansen said that even if the relationship was found to be not sexual, then the "intensive contact with the minor is in itself totally unacceptable".

The band's website has been replaced with a large photo of the excluded singer, as well as comments from Jonni Hansen and a fellow band member. The three remaining band members have decided to disband, "rather than see their good name dragged through the dirt".

Hansen told a Danish newspaper that he has asked the accused to commit suicide, because "It would be the only real way out of this".


Please don't get me wrong, I have no sympathies for paedophiles. People who molest children should be punished very hard, no doubt about that!! But there is some things in this story I do not like. First of all, it is very unclear what it is, that has been going on. A 12-year old girl is visiting a 32 year old man, and it sounds as if she'd rather be at his place than at home. Why is that? I mean, she could be treated terribly at home, and sees his place as a place where she can be left alone, for all we know. :confused:

Another thing is that we live in a country where you're innocent until something else is proved. The DNSB decided to write the guy's full name, along with posting his picture on a website, that is very easy to find - just google Daneskjold and it's one of the first hits.

Imagine if the guy hasn't done anything. His life is ruined now.

So - if he really did something, the judge shall decide his punishment, and it better be hard - if he didn't do anything - then shame on you, Jonni Hansen!





Hands off my bike!

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Bicycle thieves have been more active than usual this year, according to figures from Statistics Denmark.

During the first six months of 2009, police received 35,849 reports of bicycle theft, meaning eight bikes were stolen every hour. The half-year figure is the highest in nine years, and only five out of 1000 thefts are ever solved by police.

If your bike gets stolen, you are lucky if you ever see it again, and the chance that the police will actually catch the perpetrator is extremely small. The reason why there are so many bikes that are never found again is that they are taken out of the country, most likely to east European countries.

I remember a case from where I lived before. One very early morning I was looking out of my window, and a big truck drove slowly through my street. Two men took every bicycle that wasn't secured to a tree or a street sign and threw them onto the truck, and it went very fast. I called the police, but by the time they got there, the men were long gone, and so were all the bicycles. I couldn't even note the licence plate, because they'd covered it with mud or something that looked like mud. Luckily I had my bike in my apartment. I couldn't afford to have it stolen.

I hate people who steal! :mad: *growls*


AIDS - a mass murderer

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A German ad featuring Adolf Hitler having sex is making headlines this week and has been condemned by HIV charities even before the ad hits the TV/cinema/magazines.

The steamy ad, filmed by a German charity, features a couple having sex - but only at the end is the man revealed to be Hitler.

The ad - produced in German, Spanish and English versions - also features mocked-up posters of Josef Stalin and Saddam Hussein having sex with naked women.

The tagline reads: "AIDS is a mass murderer". It is set to be shown on German television next week.

AIDS-awareness charity says it wants to shake people up by linking AIDS with mass murder, citing figures that show AIDS kills almost 6,000 every day. But charities all over the world have hit back with concerns that it could be AIDS sufferers, not the disease itself, that become associated with Hitler.

AIDS has killed around 30 million people worldwide, and, according to the campaign, World War II is estimated to have killed around 60 million people.

The advert has been criticised for stigmatising people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
You can see the TV/Cinema ad here .

Nasty Neighbours

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A tiff between neighbours has turned into what sounds like a horror movie for 23 families who face being moved out of an apartment building due to the aggressive behaviour of one other family.

Life has reportedly been hell for the 23 families since last October where the family in question moved in. The residents have allegedly faced harassment, violence and threats from the family on a daily basis.

The conflict peaked on Monday while the family accused of the rotten behaviour was entertaining relatives. Their children reportedly began throwing rocks and spitting at other families in the building’s playground area. When they were told to stop, their parents came down to the playground armed with knives and clubs. Two residents were injured and taken to hospital, while one man was arrested.

Threats have since followed the incident, including the Lebanese family spray painting, "We've killed a man. Watch your step. Ha ha!" on the sidewalk outside the building. But instead of the aggressive family being forced to move out, the housing association has instead volunteered to relocate the other families at no charge. The reason is that the one family cannot be evicted until the matter is settled through a court order.

The head of the social services department, said the city did not have the power to negotiate solutions in household or neighbour disputes. But the city would step in and evict the family as soon as it had the legal means to do so.

The 23 families previously filed their case with the Tenant Complaints Board and the family was "evicted" by the board – a decision that must be upheld in the court before it can be actualised.

In the meantime, many of the building’s residents were reportedly living in fear, especially those who testifying in the eviction case.


Mohammed drawing becomes a commercial success

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Kurt Vestergaard’s controversial drawing of Islamic prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban is proving to be big business for printers, art galleries and – not least – the cartoonist himself.

"Galleri Draupner" in Skanderborg, Jutland, which is currently exhibiting all of Jyllands-Posten newspaper’s original drawings, indicated it has sold numerous autographed prints of Kurt Vestergaard’s illustration.

The Jyllands-Posten Mohammed drawings were first printed in September 2005. The move touched off numerous violent protests worldwide from offended Muslims and resulted in extensive damage to several Danish embassies. :irked:

Somehow I wish that the galleries would make more money on it than some other large Danish companies lost during the whole scenario. I mean, Arla, a big Danish company that exports cheese and dairy products, were banned in the middle east during the crisis, and had to fire employees due to the decreased demand.


And I'm still glad that I live in a country that believes in freedom of speech! :yes: