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Woman Photographs Swan, Finds Hand Stuck in Ice
Reuters ^ | Thu Apr 7, 2005 09:12 AM ET | Staff

Posted on 04/07/2005 9:21:30 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish woman who photographed a swan in the river outside the royal palace in Stockholm made a grim discovery when the film was developed: a hand sticking out of the ice. Newspaper Aftonbladet said on its Web Site that Marita Larsson was walking around Stockholm's Old Town in early March and took a photo of a swan on the river as a spring thaw melted the ice.

"It was only when I came home and developed the film that I saw there was something particular about the picture. When I had it blown up I saw there was a hand sticking out of the ice," she told the newspaper.

A spokesman for Stockholm police said the hand might be that of a man who committed suicide in late January and whose body has not yet been found.

Police last week also fished various body parts of a woman, including the head and hands, out of the river, and are still trying to identify her.


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KEYWORDS: callingartbell; strange; unusual; weird
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To: Publius6961

Hey, didn't you ever see that movie "Blowup"?! :-)


21 posted on 04/07/2005 9:38:50 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Proud infidel since 1970.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

"Blow-Up" is a great movie by Antonioni (1966). A Photographer uncovers a murder when he greatly enlarges photographs he took in a park. Or does he??


22 posted on 04/07/2005 9:40:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Sounds like a serial kille is loose in the greater Stockholm metropolitan area.


23 posted on 04/07/2005 9:40:39 AM PDT by 12 Gauge Mossberg (I Approved This Posting - Paid For By Mossberg, Inc.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Surely there wouldn't be any connection to the "religion of pieces"?

maybe a "honor killing" or some such.


24 posted on 04/07/2005 9:41:07 AM PDT by federal
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Woman Photographs Swan, Finds Hand Stuck in Ice

My first reaction in reading the headline is that it must have been a long long exposure during a very cold snap.

25 posted on 04/07/2005 9:41:14 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: TomGuy

Oh, we can fit the pieces together...


26 posted on 04/07/2005 9:41:16 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Friend of the WPPFF)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The royal palace seems like a weird place to dispose of a body.

So does Fort Marcy Park.

27 posted on 04/07/2005 9:41:24 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Everything that I've written on it for the past two years is GONE!)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Their creepy and their kooky...

28 posted on 04/07/2005 9:41:37 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Wonderful, peaceful Sweden.


29 posted on 04/07/2005 9:41:48 AM PDT by hgro (ews)
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To: Charles Henrickson
"It was only when I came home and developed the film that I saw there was something particular about the picture. When I had it blown up I saw there was a hand sticking out of the ice," she told the newspaper.

Ko.

30 posted on 04/07/2005 9:42:09 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Unnnghconscious.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yep. A friend showed me the movie in college. I was surprised to see Vanessa Redgrave!


31 posted on 04/07/2005 9:45:17 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Proud infidel since 1970.)
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To: RockinRight

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32 posted on 04/07/2005 9:46:45 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Hatteras
Their creepy and their kooky...

OOoooo!
That is creepy!
A golf ball the size of a hailstone!
33 posted on 04/07/2005 9:47:39 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan (We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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To: RushCrush
No, the finger in Wendy's chili was planted there by McDonld's

LOL!...."..hold the pickle, hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us..." Burger King???

34 posted on 04/07/2005 9:50:49 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: Happygal

Can you tell by the hand if the poor chap had counted to three?


35 posted on 04/07/2005 9:52:49 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic ("Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence" - R. Kirk)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

36 posted on 04/07/2005 9:54:56 AM PDT by js1138 (There are 10 kinds of people: those who read binary, and those who don't.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

The mere presence of a swan makes me suspect fowl play....


37 posted on 04/07/2005 9:55:21 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The royal palace seems like a weird place to dispose of a body.
Perhaps it wasn't supposed to happen this way...


38 posted on 04/07/2005 10:02:54 AM PDT by cartan
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To: Publius6961

We have a black and white developer in our own personal darkroom. My daughter uses it.


39 posted on 04/07/2005 10:11:58 AM PDT by dmz
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Word to the wise - when in Sweden, DON'T drink the water!!!


40 posted on 04/07/2005 10:13:28 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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