Spud missile offender found not guilty due to age
Published: 23 Dec 09 09:51 CET | Print version
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A court in western Sweden has cleared a potato-gun-wielding 15-year-old boy of weapons charges due to his young age.
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He built the weapon using metal parts from a junkyard and used tape to hold the gun together. It was so powerful it could propel a golf ball 50 metres.
After he tested the homemade cannon at a cemetery, the boy was brought to trial on a weapons charge but was not convicted due to the fact that he is a minor.
“Had I known that the potato gun was considered a weapon under the law, I never would have made it or used it,” the boy said during his trial earlier this autumn, according to Hallands Nyheter newspaper.
Varberg district court ruled that he had been careless in his disregard of the laws governing potato guns, but due to his age the crime is not punishable and the court elected to dismiss the charges, the newspaper reports.
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Gun laws? Sweden needs to check their own crime stats. Rated number 8 in world crime.
Be the way...the U.S. is 13th. F--k I can't wait to get out of here so I can feel the cool of my .38!
Go ahead...flush me with email! commpilot1971@yahoo.com
OK get out of here we do NOT need Ars*holes like you here
No thanks, I have better things to do with my life.
Merry Christmas, btw.
Hey..that is probably illegal here in Sweden but if you fjucked a chicken it would not be against the law here.
Odd country where its ok to blow a chicken but not ok to blow one up ;=)
Potato Gun is a weapons offense.....it only propelled a golf ball 50 meters...what human can't propel a golf ball twice that distance? 500 meters then I would have been impressed.....it's obvious these laws are causing Sweden to lose the race in potato gun technology...considering potatoes grow in abundance here you are really missing out on alternative -cost effective -weapons for your armed forces.