Daily Archives: March 12, 2010  Bizarre Swedish Crime
Story Friday  You can’t make this stuff up…  Black Cobra gang
steals selection of small cakes  If you’re going to go in the
confectionery theft business you better have a pretty tough name
or the other gangs will totally make fun of you.  It should be
noted that the Black Cobras are supposed to be Danish (Damn you
Denmark!  They’re the bullies of Scandinavia.)  They had a
reputation for trafficking in narcotics and extortion but have
apparently decided to muscle their way into the lucrative snack
food market.   Ah…but the police are on the job.  Bottom line,
don’t get between cops and their donuts…even in Sweden.  “We
have conducted raids at a number of addresses and have
confiscated cakes,” police spokesperson Charley Nilsson told
local newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad.  Detroit’s Mad
Max transformation  Kotare has linked to a couple of stories
about the decay of Detroit and the city’s plans to conduct some
triage and save what it can.  The city has been in