Sword-wielding Swedish teen attacks couple in car
Published: 8 Mar 12 07:31 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/39548/20120308/
A 19-year-old man in Finspång, in southeastern Sweden, went on a rampage with a sword on Wednesday night, shattering the windscreen of a flabbergasted young couple’s car.
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The incident occurred shortly after 11.30pm on Wednesday night. The overwrought couple managed to drive away, leaving their attacker behind, and alerted the police.
“They had hardly got into the car before this man turned up. He thrust the sword straight through the windscreen of the car, so hard that it shattered,” Lindkvist said to the paper.
When police arrived at the man’s flat he was nowhere to be seen but officers soon caught up with him at a nearby hospital, where he was receiving medical treatments for his cuts.
Police believe that he was under the influence of drugs when he staged the dramatic attack, but are not ruling out underlying mental problems.
“The investigation will tell us,” said Lindkvist to Corren.
The man was apprehended by police shortly after 2.30am and he is currently under suspicion of aggravated assault.
He was formally arrested in the early hours of Thursday morning.
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Probably they are gonna say he was smoking pot and went bezerk! Pigs!
And he is under suspicion of aggravated assault!!! No sheet Sherlok!!! Pigs!
Still hating police If you ain't up on pace!!!
I'll be posting on my own headline "Young teenage tw@t has aarrse handed to him"
Did I misread something?
This young guy attacks two people in a car with a sword. Did I get it right?
So why the sh*t are you so angry with...wait for it, not the perp, not the victims, but the poor sods that have to go and clean up the mess that idiotic criminal behaviour leaves behind?
Still, I am sure you must have good reason for your "still hating police" remark. Care to share it?
me thinks that is compensating for something else!