Mary Jo Kopechne left sinking in an Ojldsmobile.
Posted on 06/29/2006 8:17:23 AM PDT by Kurt_Hectic
June is high season for weddings in Norway, like many other places in the world. And bachelor parties can sometimes get out of hand.
Such was the case with a would-be bridegroom in Trondheim earlier this month. His buddies thought they'd come up with a brilliant bachelor-party plan, but most of it went awry.
It all started when the 31-year-old bridegroom was picked up at his home in Trondheim's Bakklandet district. His friends took him down to the harbor, they all boarded a sailboat and off they sailed to the middle of the Trondheims Fjord.
Fortunately, the men dressed up the unsuspecting bridegroom in a survival suit before they dropped him into the water. "They were about two kilometers from land," Birgit Monsås of the Sør-Trøndelag Police District told newspaper Aftenposten.
The bridegroom's buddies had chartered a seaplane that was supposed to pluck him out of the water. But the waves got too high for the plane to land, and then the party on the sailboat lost sight of their man.
"So they called us," said Monsås. That set off a major search and rescue operation, complete with two police boats, a helicopter and a special rescue vessel, while more police and an ambulance waited on the shore.
Meanwhile, the bridegroom floated in the water in his survival suit, unaware of his own emergency. Suddenly he was surrounded by rescuers in the sea and in the sky, but assumed they were all part of his party.
"He was eventually taken home after lying in the water for about an hour," said Monsås. His best man was expected to be hit with a strong reprimand and fine.
Sounds like a special teams bachelor party
Really! These guys never heard of a lap dance?
We jumped and kidnapped my brother for his party. Tied him up and threw him in the car. As we were driving down the road, the cops were rolling up.
We didn't stop.
NOOOOOBODY expects the Norwegian Inquisition!!!!
The bride-to-be: Lena?
There was a young lady of Norway
Who hung by her toes in a doorway.
.. She said to her beau:
..`Just look at me, Joe,
I think I've discovered one more way.'
Uff da!
That's what I was thinking. I understand that most children there are born out of wedlock now.
After floating in the cold water for a couple of hours, it's even odds he wasn't worrying about "Norwegian Wood".
We had a murder case out here where some Guido Wannabes rolled the victim [handcuffed] up in a carpet on a hot day, threw him in a van, and drove out to my county. He suffocated.
Who's the stripper? Darryl Hannah in a mermaid suit?
Mary Jo Kopechne left sinking in an Ojldsmobile.
Dude seems to have handled it OK.
I guess he was Built Fjord Tough.
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