Posted on 07/31/2007 4:37:13 PM PDT by WesternCulture
While out for a round of golf on Monday a middle-aged couple had their game disrupted by a teenage boy bearing a grudge and a gun. The strange encounter took place at Ringenäs golf course near Halmstad in western Sweden, Aftonbladet reports.
At around 5.30pm the golfers came upon a boy dressed in camouflage combat fatigues and a helmet. Before they had time to react, the boy took aim at the pair and screamed "bloody capitalists" before firing a shot into the air above their heads.
"My wife ducked behind her bag. It was very unpleasant. We were scared," the male golfer told Aftonbladet.
The boy quickly ran away and was nowhere to be found by the time police had arrived at the course to investigate the incident.
Other golfers meanwhile were quick to leap to their sport's defence, rejecting the implication that it was somehow the preserve of a capitalist elite.
"We are not high earners. There is nothing unusual about people who play golf. It is no longer the snobbish sport that it was fifteen years ago," Fredrik Johansson told Aftonbladet.
Traveling around the American or European continent smashing windows of McDonald’s restaurants undeniably costs some money (even if you don’t get caught and have to pay damages/fines).
When they’re not on one of their tours, these guys are often found on the Internet (and their Net activities aren’t exactly limited to Internet shopping and looking for jobs - check out a web site like indymedia.com for instance). Many of them come from well off middle class families (at least over here in Europe) and are not satisfied with second rate computer gear and Internet connections. Sooner, many of them are computer freaks.
Eaker, you gotta start playing more golf.
It seems you are needed.
Remember waht the Student For A Democratic sOCIETY (SDS) used to say, “Bring the war home. Kill your parents.” Maybe this is one of the wack jobs the old SDS pukes encouraged to reform the SDS.
Note to Communists: In Sweden, don’t kill the geese that keep laying the golden eggs.
daily kos strikes again.
That's a two stroke penalty.
“My wife ducked behind her bag. It was very unpleasant”
being shot at described as “unpleasant”? gotta love those Norwegians?
“Other golfers meanwhile were quick to leap to their sport’s defence, rejecting the implication that it was somehow the preserve of a capitalist elite.”
Amazing that they would even think of having to do this.
Carl Spackler: Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key...
Sandy: Not golfers, you great fool! Gophers! The *little* *brown*, *furry* *rodents* -!
Carl Spackler: We can do that; we don't even have to have a reason
That boy could ND a 9 iron ........
Bill Murray in Caddyshack was awesome.
In Groundhog Day though he is at his absolute best.
Furry rodents have been quite the charm for him.
So it's not okay to shoot us. Otherwise, by all means, blast away. Appalling.
Under the circumstances, I believe a double mulligan would be more apropos.
Especially if it was protruding from his arse.
Well I don’t play golf but I do play in the gulf.There we are busy hookin untill some one hangs a shark, then everybody moves to one side of the boat duckin behind the console.We gotta make it one of these upcoming weekends guys.
I call BS on this story. Guns in the Utopian socialist network that is Sweden?!?
The kid is doing it all wrong!
You hide in the rough. As the ball flies down the fairway toward the green you take aim and fire!
I just love “Skeet-Golf!”
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