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The Gangs of Åstorp
Sunday "... five men were indicted, some of them members of the Black Cobra criminal gang. They are suspected of involvement in cake theft from the Godbiten bakery in Åstorp [pop. 8500] earlier this week. The cake was stolen from...
Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
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Posted on: March 15, 2010 8:10 AM, by Martin R
Sunday "... five men were indicted, some of them members of the Black Cobra criminal gang. They are suspected of involvement in cake theft from the Godbiten bakery in Åstorp [pop. 8500] earlier this week. The cake was stolen from a truck on an industrial estate.120 boxes containing among other things mazarines, brownies and apple pie were taken from the site."
Via Swedish Radio.
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Comments
When nobody was looking, the Black Cobra Gang took 120 cakes. They took 120 cakes. That's as many as twelve tens. And that's terrible.
Posted by: Phillip IV | March 15, 2010 9:04 AM
I would quite like some cake, myself. And tea. Damn that Black Cobra gang!
Posted by: Martin R | March 15, 2010 9:07 AM
For those of us who didn't read US children’s dictionaries in the late seventies:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lex-luthor-took-forty-cakes
Posted by: Fredrik | March 15, 2010 9:13 AM
Aha! Didn't know that. I like the picture of Wonder Woman fighting a whale for her shoes.
Posted by: Martin R | March 15, 2010 9:15 AM
Well that really takes the biscuit.
Posted by: csrster | March 15, 2010 9:34 AM
Note to self: Åstorp, crime blackspot - avoid at all costs
Posted by: codero | March 15, 2010 9:41 AM