From the case of Sister v. Moose.
Posted on 09/26/2015 6:07:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man from southern Sweden, who was accused of murdering his wife, is suing for damages after it was established that his wife was killed by an elk.
The man, a resident of Loftahammer in southern Sweden, is now demanding 621,000 kronor compensation for being falsely accused of murder.
His lawyers are critical of the way in which prosecutors and the police handled the investigation after the 63-year-old woman was found seriously injured near the shore of a lake outside of Loftahammar in northeast Småland in September 2008.
According to the man, investigators were too quick to assume that he had killed his wife.
For months the man laboured under the suspicion that he had murdered his wife, and he was also detained for ten days. Then it turned out that his wife was in fact killed by an elk.
When the woman was found dead on a forest path, the police immediately suspected her husband, and just hours after she found he was arrested on suspicion of murder. After ten days in detention, he was released, but the suspicions against him remained.
It would take several months before police identified the real culprit after hairs found on the woman’s body were finally identified as coming from an elk. Police then realised the woman had been kicked to death by the animal.
The man says that, because of the false accusation, he was viewed as a killer by his neighbours where he lived and had to move away.
Now he is asking for damages totalling 621,000 kronor - 300,000 kronor in compensation for suffering and 321,000 kronor in compensation for lost income.
From the case of Sister v. Moose.
This would make a biting book.
“Grandma got run over by a reindeer...”
Oh, boy...
Laughter ensues
Was cheese involved?
He should sue for a lot of doe...like a million bucks. A staggering amount.
let ‘em ruminate on that for a while.
Who said the elk didn't do it for free?
DANG!
BTW, is the kroner the one with the hole in it?
It looked like a misogynist elk if I ever saw one
Most likely a Møøse
....but clever.
Wapiti about the wife, though.
Leni
http://www.stoorn.se/
Into every life a little reindeer must fall...
LOL! :-)
The police did actually clean and swab the undercarriage of his lawnmower.
A little under $74,000.
Have to hand it to the Swedish police. White males are not to be trusted, not even in their own countries or with their wives. Good job, Swedes. You’ve earned that footnote in the history of suicidal Scandinavian idiocy.
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