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| Sweden: Boy shoots at 'bloody capitalist' golfers |
| 2007-07-31 |
| While out for a round of golf on Monday a middle-aged couple had their game disrupted by a teenage boy bearing a grudge and a gun. The strange encounter took place at Ringenäs golf course near Halmstad in western Sweden, Aftonbladet reports. At around 5.30pm the golfers came upon a boy dressed in camouflage combat fatigues and a helmet. Before they had time to react, the boy took aim at the pair and screamed "bloody capitalists" before firing a shot into the air above their heads. "My wife ducked behind her bag. It was very unpleasant. We were scared," the male golfer told Aftonbladet. The boy quickly ran away and was nowhere to be found by the time police had arrived at the course to investigate the incident. Other golfers meanwhile were quick to leap to their sport's defence, rejecting the implication that it was somehow the preserve of a capitalist elite. "We are not high earners. There is nothing unusual about people who play golf. It is no longer the snobbish sport that it was fifteen years ago," Fredrik Johansson told Aftonbladet. Apologizing for playing golf - more victims of GDS. |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #14 A warning shot does help when the group ahead is taking too much time. [BANG!] "Playing through." [BANG!] |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-31 22:40 |
| #13 I'm not saying shooting golfers is wrong, but do they even *have* capitalists in Sweden? Oh yeah, just ask Ingvar Kamprad. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-07-31 17:59 |
| #12 Considering that every goddam lawyer in the world and half the docs and dentists all play golf, what's the problem? |
| Posted by: Sheba Ulaimble6895 2007-07-31 15:46 |
| #11 I'm not saying shooting golfers is wrong, but do they even *have* capitalists in Sweden? LOL, Steve. And here I was asking another obvious question...they still have *guns* in Sweden? |
| Posted by: BA 2007-07-31 14:11 |
| #10 Comrade, hand me the shootin' iron ... |
| Posted by: mrp 2007-07-31 13:52 |
| #9 Hi. What's your handicap? They shoot at us... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-07-31 13:27 |
| #8 I guess this means it would be prudent to "pack a piece" when golfing. By law in the State of Tennessee you are required to have a firearm everywhere you go. Well, it may not be codified but it is the standard practice. A warning shot does help when the group ahead is taking too much time. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2007-07-31 13:01 |
| #7 I'm not saying shooting golfers is wrong, but do they even *have* capitalists in Sweden? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-07-31 12:19 |
| #6 Sandy: I want you to kill every gophers on the golf course! Carl Spackler: Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key... Sandy: Not golfers, you great fool! Gophers! The *little* *brown*, *furry* *rodents* -! Carl Spackler: We can do that; we don't even have to have a reason. All right, let's do the same thing, but with gophers -! |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-07-31 11:42 |
| #5 Yes, but there was an heart attack as a result (with the pills lost in the sunken golf cart. Oh, well). The only schumacher movie I deemed bearable, and with only *one* gay-related scene, oh boy. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-07-31 10:55 |
| #4 Wasn't this a scene in the movie "Falling Down"? |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2007-07-31 10:44 |
| #3 Maybe he lives by the course and was pissed off about getting his windows broken? (Anyway, there is a more civilized approach to dealing with the problem, as illustrated by Johnny Knoxville & Co. in their cinematic opus, "Jackass". A couple of well-timed toots of an airhorn are all it takes.) |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2007-07-31 10:24 |
| #2 I guess this means it would be prudent to "pack a piece" when golfing. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-07-31 09:29 |
| #1 I guess this means it would be prudent to "pack a piece" when golfing. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-07-31 09:29 |