Swede charged for 'shooting down UFOs'
Published: 1 Sep 11 10:46 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/35894/20110901/
A 23-year-old man from Dalarna in central Sweden who thought he was being attacked by aliens from outer space has been charged for firing several live rounds from his apartment window.
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To protect himself from the attackers from outer space, he picked up a pistol and fired several shots.
When the 23-year-old began shooting, the mother of his child, also in the apartment, called the police.
Even so, it took several hours of convincing as well as one last shot against the aliens before the man gave up his fight against the alleged attackers, local newspaper Dala-Demokraten reported.
No one was injured in the shooting, but due to the risk posed from the man having fired live rounds the man has now been charged with illegal weapon possession and threatening a police officer, wrote the newspaper.
Despite the charges, the police didn't feel threatened by the man, according to their own report.
"We do not believe that the threats voiced were anything other than the desperation of a confused person," wrote the police in a memorandum, also concluding that two shots were fired through the apartment window.
According to the 23-year-old, he fired several more shots, that hit and destroyed the UFOs that had come to kidnap him.
He said that the unidentified objects exploded when hit.
The man may have been suffering from a severe psychiatric disturbance at the time of the shooting, according to the psychiatrist who evaluated him.
The 23-year-old has previously been convicted of attempted manslaughter.
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What nobody understood is that the wife is an UFO. With that type of wife, the man do not need enemies and should have left the house inmediately in one of the UFOS.
No comments, as promised. Good Lord!
It is spelled with a "C" not a "K"- A bit juvenile, Tsk Tsk.Tsk.
It did not mean I don't like clitorises.
I know about the Billy Meier UFO thing from the 70s but
again where is the hard evidence? The only thing that
he claims as hard proof are is unknown metals of some
sort. The guy in the article suffers from schizophrenia.
He needs medication.
His crazy action can be caused by: a brain tumor, by drugs, by SD membership, by Swedish popmusic, by ahmadinedjadismia - or he is an Sirian terrorist...
Only a few possible explanations.
(A 79 year old psychologist in Cincinnati.)