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Musician and estate agent charged over sex act on Swedish bus

Published: 28 Apr 10 10:45 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/26336/20100428/

A middle-aged Swedish couple have been charged with after committing sexual acts in full view of their co-passengers on a coach passing through Småland in southern Sweden.

"There was no doubt in my mind what they were up to," an eye witness told local newspaper Smålandsposten.

The couple, a female musician and a male estate agent, jumped on the coach in Stockholm in August 2009.

The couple took up a position at the rear of the bus which began to fill up.

As the coach, which was bound for continental Europe, passed between the Småland towns of Huskvarna and Ljungby, the couple began to get intimate with each other, a passenger sitting in the adjacent seat told the newspaper.

A female co-passenger has testified in police interviews that the couple brazenly flouted their sexual activity in front of the other passengers on the coach, who were doing their best to mind their own business, the newspaper reports.

According to the police investigation, a mother was fervently trying to distract her teenage daughter and conceal from her the graphic sexual exertions playing out just a few rows behind them.

The amorous couple were eventually ejected from the coach in the town of Ljungby and were handed over the police.

But the couple have rejected the heated accusations levelled against them and deny the charges of sexual harassment.

"I don't understand anything. We did not have sex. She stroked me on my tummy just inside my shirt," the male estate agent said in a statement.

Peter Vinthagen Simpson
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12:46 April 28, 2010 by farnoxo
Perhaps they thought the bus was going to Fjuckby instead :-)
13:11 April 28, 2010 by sleepinacoffin
ha.you are funny
14:02 April 28, 2010 by jack sprat
So there is life in Smaland after all.

Oh sorry they were only passing through.

It could catch on though,..live sex shows to entertain long distance travellers,

......just as long as they provide a seperate play area/knitting room for toddlers and grumpy grannies.

Oh, and a set of blinkers for the driver.
16:27 April 28, 2010 by saar
This is the best thing one can do while passing through Småland.
16:56 April 28, 2010 by zircon
Bus seat on fire; is nothing sacred in Sweden?
17:04 April 28, 2010 by bolababu
..too much freedom, people abuse things when they have excess of it.
19:38 April 28, 2010 by asteriks
"guilty for enjoying"! church and the law, together, decide still like in the middle age. but priests secretly do some things with children and police was quiet 30 years....all over the world...
21:28 April 28, 2010 by sissygirl
The other people on the bus behaved better than I would have (trying to mind their own business). Don't think I could resist. I might have thrown cold water on them or something. Call me closed minded, but that was not the time or place. If all those people were embarrassed, there was more to it than tickling and kissing.
21:57 April 28, 2010 by wxman
"She stroked me on my tummy". Ha Ha Ha Ha!! More accurately, "Stroked what was on my tummy". There fixed it.
07:49 April 29, 2010 by CarlBlack
Hmm, people still apparently don't see sex as a normal part of life and must make big deal of it. Is this incident really worth publishing in newspaper - other than tabloid?
09:08 April 29, 2010 by sruk
He is idiot, claiming that he was not doing it..

All he had to do was to claim that he is the priest, police wouldn't bother him at all. Oh sorry! Girl was too old..

He should get in touch with Mr Ratzinger, he knows how to handle those problems.
10:43 April 29, 2010 by flintis
People can't have any fun nowadays, always some interfering busybody sticking their nose in.
11:19 April 29, 2010 by hunnysnowbee
LOL! @ farnoxo's comment!
15:21 May 1, 2010 by M Krishnamachary
Laissez-faire.

If an estate agent and a musician indulged in sex act right in front of the other passengers, though unacceptable to civilised people, they can be left alone. Law too should be lenient as the act did not create any rucus. They are sent away, that is OK.
21:20 May 1, 2010 by Redhaze
She was a musician, playing a skin flute!
14:59 May 2, 2010 by Twiceshy
This is really nothing. On public schoolbusses, kids regularly have sex and are videotaped by the bus video camera. Whoever gets to see the data had lots of child porn. This is coming from a girl who had sex on the bus. I heard it myself.
10:03 May 4, 2010 by hardonforswedes
You cant beat a drunk horny auld swede
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