sweden

The story of the man who stuck his penis in a hornet’s nest and died in pain may well be a hoax. Last Monday, a 35 year old Swedish man was reported dead near his farm with 146 wasp stings on his body, 46 of which on his genitals....

Now, stealing cars, truck and motorcycles are pretty common occurrences but stealing a train? That’s not something you hear about everyday. A 20-year old woman, who works as a cleaner in Stockholm, Sweden, did just that. Stole keys to a train, then drove it at a high speed to...

Richard Handl, a 31-year-old Swedish man from Ängelholm in western Sweden was arrested when he requested information on the legality of building a nuclear reactor in his kitchen. According to The Local, the man began his nuclear experimenting around six months ago and had maintained a blog detailing his...

A 12-year-old Swedish boy was lucky to survive an encounter with a protective mother bear on his last ski trip in Funäsdalen, northern Sweden – when a wrong turn sent him into a bear’s lair, that was occupied by a mother and three cubs. The subsequent mauling only ended...

As a kid, I always wanted to do particularly dangerous things with otherwise harmless toys, like putting gasoline in waterballoons or attaching tacks to the end of NERF darts.  Clearly, I was thinking inside the box. David Windestål strapped a camera and a Roman candle to his RC helicopter,...

A man is suing the Swedish government 17 years after they deported him to the wrong country. Peter Ekweri, was deported to Ghana after the Swedish Aliens Appeals Board decided that he was Ghanan. In his lawsuit, Ekweri – a Ugandan – claims that a police inspector guaranteed that...