history of inebriation:Sweden:Walpurgis Night…..or any other excuse?

Police busy on alcohol-soaked Walpurgis Night

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Busy Valborg for Police: "Walpurgis Night, or Valborg, is a long established night for partying and getting drunk among the young and students"

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It would be interesting to see the age range statistics of those arrested.

I guess it must be in the genes,huh?

 

 

Credit where it is due……

 

That's a pretty good performance from them within a relatively short time. It used to be that when America caught a cold, European/Scandinavian economies got pneumonia. It was the Swedish 'rescue model' that was followed by Gordon Brown (UK) and subsequently Barack Obama (USA) and it seems to have done good service in Sweden as well.

Here's some of my best buddies………ehm, friends :):)

The good (?) old days……….1

Where did all those people come from in a land with such a modest population?