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(BBC)   Swedish punks riot in Copenhagen over closure of youth center, saying that just because the city owned the building doesn't mean they had any right to sell it   (news.bbc.co.uk) divider line
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eviljoeyoung
2007-09-02 6:48:28 PM  
Squatters run a youth center in the same building since the 80's, then get upset when the council sell the place to a christian group.

Yup, those guys are way out of line.
 
Weaver95
2007-09-02 6:55:11 PM  
Squatters running the centre were evicted from the building by an anti-terror squad on 1 March.

I don't think that's what you're supposed to do with anti-terrorism squads. I'd have to double check the fine print, but i'm fairly sure that 'settling zoning disputes' isn't covered under the 'stop terrorists from killing hostages' provisions.
 
Durendal
2007-09-02 6:57:04 PM  
Throwing rocks at storefront windows and setting cars on fire is a great way to get your message across if your message is "We're a bunch of stupid thugs". Way to go, guys!
 
franjrt
2007-09-02 6:59:17 PM  
I assume our submitter meant to call them "Danish" punks?
 
knbber2
2007-09-02 7:00:26 PM  
Durendal: Throwing rocks at storefront windows and setting cars on fire is a great way to get your message across if your message is "We're a bunch of stupid thugs". Way to go, guys!

This

Durendal: are you aware that your username is also a highly ineffective French-made, anti-runway, air to surface munition?
 
FarkinNortherner
2007-09-02 7:09:38 PM  
submitter: Swedish punks riot in Copenhagen over closure of youth center

How eccentric of them.

/missing some meme ?
 
Durendal
2007-09-02 7:19:53 PM  
knbber2, and that munition takes it's name from the sword of Rowland.
 
TwistedIvory
2007-09-02 7:22:27 PM  
Where are Turbo and Ozone when you need them?
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2007-09-02 7:35:26 PM  
Wow, this thread is full of information.

My cat's name is Mittens.
 
AnyName
2007-09-02 7:38:01 PM  
puffy999: Wow, this thread is full of information.

My cat's name is Mittens.

Mine are named QT3.14, Priscilla, Niko, Hey Cutie and Little Mr Kittie.

/Way too many cats
 
skinink [OhFark]
2007-09-02 7:38:13 PM  
Durendal

"Throwing rocks at storefront windows and setting cars on fire is a great way to get your message across if your message is "We're a bunch of stupid thugs". "


That's known as a "Watts Protest". I've always agreed with the way college students protest, if it's mostly not effective. Why destroy your own neighborhood?
 
Cornwell
2007-09-02 7:38:13 PM  
Bah, there are a couple of Norwegians down there as well, and probably some Germans as well.

When it comes to punk squatters and their illegally occupied youth-centers that they've been running since the eighties, they're pretty much one big family in all of the southern/central parts of Scandinavia.

/Got nothing, actually.
//Still like these places
///Usually have good grub and some cool concerts every now and then
 
shlabotnik
2007-09-02 7:39:35 PM  
Bork, bork, bork?
 
Stanfan114
2007-09-02 7:40:10 PM  
franjrt: I assume our submitter meant to call them "Danish" punks?

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"HEY SWEDEN!"
"They're Danes, Mac."
 
C-J
2007-09-02 7:40:35 PM  
Submitter, is that some sort of oblique reference to John Carpenters The Thing?
 
aerojockey [TotalFark]
2007-09-02 7:42:23 PM  
Well, duh. In Sweden, they probably don't.

/Probably would in Denmark
 
Cerebral Ballsy
2007-09-02 7:42:23 PM  
Weaver95: Squatters running the centre were evicted from the building by an anti-terror squad on 1 March.

I don't think that's what you're supposed to do with anti-terrorism squads. I'd have to double check the fine print, but i'm fairly sure that 'settling zoning disputes' isn't covered under the 'stop terrorists from killing hostages' provisions.

but but but hippies terrorize us all!

/I knew these terrorism task forces would get out of control.
 
C-J
2007-09-02 7:43:50 PM  
Weaver95
Judging by the reaction, maybe using anti-terror squads to evict them wasn't so unjustified.
 
Broz_Tito
2007-09-02 7:44:00 PM  
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antron
2007-09-02 7:45:49 PM  
Durendal: Throwing rocks at storefront windows

You know who else threw rocks at windows...

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/ja, I vent there...
 
Surreal Dent
2007-09-02 7:46:48 PM  
HMS_Blinkin: Why would Swedes be in Denmark?

Because the beer is cheaper?
 
I am NaN
2007-09-02 7:48:00 PM  
HMS_Blinkin: This. Copenhagen is in Denmark, submittard. Why would Swedes be in Denmark?

To help out with the stone throwing and buy pot. You will find a lot of swedes among those kids, I can assure you.
 
Huxley71
2007-09-02 7:48:26 PM  
Actually, the Danes normally would blame the "gypsy population", by which they mean Turks, for this sort of thing. Although drunken Swedes are a good second choice.

/Lived in Copenhagen for a year and a half.
//Loved it.
///Malmo (Sweden) was really nice.
////Jeg vil gerne ha' slashies, tak.
 
I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros
2007-09-02 7:48:45 PM  
knbber2: Durendal: are you aware that your username is also a highly ineffective French-made, anti-runway, air to surface munition?

Random Western Civ teacher knowledge: Durendal was Roland's sword in The Song of Roland.
 
I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros
2007-09-02 7:50:04 PM  
Durendal: knbber2, and that munition takes it's name from the sword of Rowland.

Missed that. Back to school for me.
 
LargeCanine
2007-09-02 7:52:27 PM  
This is what happens when you don't immediately fumigate a hippie infestation.


"Hippies. They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad." - Cartman
 
Breaker Moran [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2007-09-02 7:54:05 PM  
Isn't Denmark Sweden's Mexico?
 
Stanfan114
2007-09-02 7:54:19 PM  
C-J: Submitter, is that some sort of oblique reference to John Carpenters The Thing?

Dude, 25 seconds. Nice.
 
Erik_Emune
2007-09-02 7:54:28 PM  
eviljoeyoung: Squatters run a youth center in the same building since the 80's, then get upset when the council sell the place to a christian group.

Ehm - kinda. Way back, the original squatters and the city made a deal that the squatters would have use of a building as long as they stuck to the terms of the deal, mostly about it not being used for crime. Eventually, the squatters decided to not keep up their end of the bargain, and the city pulled their support and put the house up for sale, only nobody in their right mind would want to buy, except for this weird sect.

Fast-forward a few years, and the city tells the squatters that they've no right to stay in the house. The squatters thump their chests bout the big fight they'll put up, then proceed to throw a huge solidarity party - and the police storm the building at 6 AM the next day, when the squatters are too hung-over to do anything. (I am not making this up...)

Streetfights erupt in the following days, as the partygoers get their headaches under control. Every maladjusted punk in Northern Europe decides it's time to butt heads with the police and buys a ticket to Copenhagen, where they proceed to throw cobblestones - at the police when they're feeling brave, through random windows when they're not.

In the meantime, concerned citizens raised money to buy the squatters their own building. An offer yhat - get this - the squatters turned down. Nuh-uh. They wanted the city to give them a house. Nothing else would do. It was at this point that most of the locals dropped their support. Wanting a house to bang drums in is understandable. Insisting that it be handed to you on a platter? Come on.

Yup, those guys are way out of line.

Torching cars and throwing stones through storefront windows? Six months after the fact? Yeah, they pretty much are.
 
Stanfan114
2007-09-02 8:01:23 PM  
It's punks like this that give douchebags a bad name.
 
Nothing Random
2007-09-02 8:02:45 PM  
Erik_Emune has won this thread. We can all leave and take our un-informed brains elsewhere. Try the latest Bush flamewar, at least its debatable who is right.
 
duffblue
2007-09-02 8:06:24 PM  
antron 2007-09-02 07:45:49 PM
Durendal: Throwing rocks at storefront windows

You know who else threw rocks at windows...


/ja, I vent there...


It's really weird when you see the swastika above the middle guys head. I'm only 18, so I don't know how it was back then. To be oppressed must be the shiattiest thing in the world. Especially in that situation, not knowing weather you would come home to an empty house or not. Or if you would live long enough to get to a bakery. fark man. Just...damn.
 
ten_of_spades
2007-09-02 8:06:26 PM  
Weaver95

I'm surprised you, of all people, are showing any sympathy for how these disaffected hippies were rousted. Having anti-terror squads drop onto this building at the crack of dawn was pretty funny (and good training, because as noted above, most were too drunk/stoned from the previous festivities to fight back). The only thing missing was one of them blaring the Ride of the Valkyries.
 
iodine
2007-09-02 8:12:32 PM  
This thread is nowhere near done. It needs random samples of hot Danish chicks before it can be declared over.
 
eviljoeyoung
2007-09-02 8:14:22 PM  
Erik_Emune: Thats some fine knowledge there. I went on what was in the article, and will be the first to admit my bias in favor of squatters (I lived in one for a bit.)

On a related note, a ska band made up of squatters near where I live (come to think of it, they're being evicted on the 7th):

The Navigantes (pops)
 
daneurysm
2007-09-02 8:23:41 PM  
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worthlessjuan
2007-09-02 8:29:50 PM  
eviljoeyoung: On a related note, a ska band made up of squatters near where I live (come to think of it, they're being evicted on the 7th):

That's not punk rock . . . they are good, real music.
 
LargeCanine
2007-09-02 8:30:21 PM  
iodine: This thread is nowhere near done. It needs random samples of hot Danish chicks before it can be declared over.

Ask - and a simple web search - and ye shall recieve.

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Shvetz
2007-09-02 8:30:36 PM  
Sorry, but these squatters have repeatedly turned down negotiations, and never kept their end of the bargain in terms of keeping the house. Frankly, it would have been quite simple for them to keep the house in the first place. But that would have involved abstaining from crime, etc...
 
noit
2007-09-02 8:31:48 PM  
Now, in retaliation the Danish will riot in Helsinki, The Finnish will riot in Tallin, and the Estonians will grumble and go about their business.
 
i hate jimmy page
2007-09-02 8:36:47 PM  
SWE?
 
blackrob
2007-09-02 8:40:49 PM  
What a wad of flavor

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duffblue
2007-09-02 8:43:33 PM  
worthlessjuan 2007-09-02 08:29:50 PM
eviljoeyoung: On a related note, a ska band made up of squatters near where I live (come to think of it, they're being evicted on the 7th):

That's not punk rock . . . they are good, real music.


Did you just try to say ska is good?
 
Erik_Emune
2007-09-02 8:44:48 PM  
eviljoeyoung: I went on what was in the article, and will be the first to admit my bias in favor of squatters (I lived in one for a bit.)

Hard not to have a soft spot for the underdogs, isn't it? But these guys worked pretty hard to bring it on themselves.
 
Jacques Strapp
2007-09-02 8:51:49 PM  
duffblue: . . . not knowing weather you would come home . . .

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Halfmast Trousers
2007-09-02 9:05:34 PM  
It sure would be nice to live in a neutral country, where the only things to get riled up and distraught about are silly, isolated local incidents.

But no, I'm an American, so I have to worry about shiat all over the world because we've got a hand in everything.
 
eviljoeyoung
2007-09-02 9:05:42 PM  
duffblue: Did you just try to say ska is good?

Good? Ska is amazing
 
colovion
2007-09-02 9:08:19 PM  
Erik_Emune: Hard not to have a soft spot for the underdogs, isn't it?

Not particularly.

/not a fan of squatters in any way, shape or form.
 
worthlessjuan
2007-09-02 9:11:29 PM  
duffblue 2007-09-02 08:43:33 PM

Yeah, in my clumsy way. What I heard on the website was pretty good stuff, real, musical, not beat the crap outta the instruments punk shiat . . . . those people have potential and I am going to look for their work, and help them survive if I can, you got a problem with that?

BTW, thanks for the introduction.
 
Karma Crusade
2007-09-02 9:19:21 PM  
Broz_Tito That's Finland, not Sweden. Or did I miss something.
 
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