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Bird-chasing guards rip palace painting with bamboo sticks
www.thelocal.se ^ | 08/06/2009 | Charlotte West

Posted on 08/06/2009 2:07:03 PM PDT by WesternCulture

Bamboo-wielding guards at the royal palace in Stockholm have damaged a portrait of the first Bernadotte king while in hot pursuit of a renegade jackdaw, TV4 reports.

The jackdaw snuck into the royal cabinet meeting room via an open chimney. Royal guards, who were armed with bamboo sticks, chased the bird into the room as it flew directly at the painting.

In their attempts to apprehend the flying fugitive, the guards ripped a hole in Fredric Westin's 1838 portrait of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, who reigned as King Karl XIV of Sweden February 5, 1818 until his death on March 8, 1844.

The fate of the jackdaw remains unknown, but TV4 reported that the Royal Court now plans to put a net over the chimneys to prevent similar incidents in the future.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: art; bernadotte; bernadottes; jackdaw; karlxiv; stockholm; sweden
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1 posted on 08/06/2009 2:07:04 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

Similar misfortunes could happen anywhere:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9xR2MI2KQo


2 posted on 08/06/2009 2:08:28 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

Royal Guards should use those sticks on Islamic invasion population taking over Malmo.


3 posted on 08/06/2009 2:09:43 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs - American Hero! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: WesternCulture

OTOH is a link in the middle of the article about the new birthday suit Swedish calendar some here might find of interest.


4 posted on 08/06/2009 2:13:05 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: WesternCulture

5 posted on 08/06/2009 2:13:42 PM PDT by Ladysmith ("A community organizer can't bitch when communities organize." Rush Limbaugh)
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To: WesternCulture
"How was work today, dear?"

"Well, I...uh...ruined a two-century old piece of art chasing a bird with a stick. How about you?"

6 posted on 08/06/2009 2:13:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: WesternCulture

“What about pointed sticks?”


7 posted on 08/06/2009 2:13:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: WesternCulture

Jean-Baptiste!? Doesn’t sound very Swedish to me.
Did Napoleon conquer Sweden when I wasn’t looking?


8 posted on 08/06/2009 2:16:58 PM PDT by rahbert ("when they feel the heat they'll see the light")
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To: WesternCulture
Jackdaw....anything like a Jackalope?


9 posted on 08/06/2009 2:20:12 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Ladysmith

Thanks. That “jackdaw” has some pretty sharp looking talons. Weird grey eyes too. A perfect extra for a scary movie or a Rammstein music video.


10 posted on 08/06/2009 2:20:49 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs - American Hero! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: WesternCulture
oops....

20 lashes with a wet loofah!

FMCDH(BITS)

11 posted on 08/06/2009 2:21:33 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: Frantzie
“Royal Guards should use those sticks on Islamic invasion population taking over Malmo.”

- Thanks for the advice, but I'd prefer to use lachrymatory agents and rubber bullets in response to the “religious manifestations” of certain immigrants in the southernmost part of my country.

Or even better; never allow them in.

Sweden is under no obligation, whatsoever, to act as the social security office of the world just because we are one of the few well developed industrialized nations with a balanced national budget.

Sweden is governed by PC morons (even though the Government of today constitutes a major improvement compared to the horrors of the 1970s and 1980s) but is in no way unique as far as ignorance goes.

Show me a Western nation of today where the majority of the inhabitants fully realizes the threat of Islam.

12 posted on 08/06/2009 2:27:30 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

So, government employees in Sweden are stupid and clumsy too! Guess it’s not an issue limited to US.


13 posted on 08/06/2009 2:28:36 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: WesternCulture

>>Show me a Western nation of today

Serbia, or is that not considered “Western”.


14 posted on 08/06/2009 2:29:31 PM PDT by swarthyguy (MEAT, the new tobacco. Your right to eat meat ends where my planetary ecosystem begins.)
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To: rahbert

“Jean-Baptiste!? Doesn’t sound very Swedish to me.
Did Napoleon conquer Sweden when I wasn’t looking?”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John_of_Sweden


15 posted on 08/06/2009 2:29:40 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: bgill
Hopefully, those interested are women...
16 posted on 08/06/2009 2:31:42 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Impeach the sumbeech)
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To: WesternCulture

I agree. At least the Swedes do not elect them to run the country. I think instead of sticks used in Malmo a Bofors AK-5 is a better choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ak_5


17 posted on 08/06/2009 2:34:08 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs - American Hero! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: WesternCulture

That headline is quite ambiguous.


18 posted on 08/06/2009 2:36:10 PM PDT by bvw
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To: reagan_fanatic

;)


19 posted on 08/06/2009 2:36:32 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: WesternCulture

And this matters, why?


20 posted on 08/06/2009 2:37:40 PM PDT by GOPJ (ACORN - Losers paid to protest ...The White House has an enemies list. Are you on it?)
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