Posted on 01/26/2014 12:59:03 PM PST by WesternCulture
Businessman Percy Nilsson, 71, was perhaps best known for his ownership of his local Malmö Redhawks ice hockey team, but has lately been making headlines after a power-drill attack on an ice cream truck. On Friday, he was ordered to pay a fine of 100,000 kronor ($15,500) by the Malmö District Court. He was also sentenced to pay for the loss of income that the ice-cream truck owner faced after the vandalism.
"It was a really tough sentencing and it's sad that it ended this way," Nilsson told the TT news agency. He lamented that he had already paid for the tyres and confessed to the crime."
The attack took place in October in Vellinge, southern Sweden, when Nilsson admitted to using a power drill to puncture the tyres of the vehicle. He said at the time that the move was intended to spark debate about the "outdated" practice of having trucks blaring their signature melody as they were driven through residential areas.
Nilsson's lawyer had argued that the jingle made 71-year-old suffer mentally.
So much for the old Eddie Murphy routine:
I got some ice cream...I got some ice cream.....
You didnt get no ice cream.....no you didnt get none....cause you on the welfare...you cant afford it....and your dads an alcoholic. Wanna lick.....PSYCH!
Not if you’re a cop...
Around here it seems to always be Christmas music in the summer or Music Box Dancer.
- You're probably right, but over here in Scandinavia, we take ice cream very seriously.
There's a war out there.
Our roads are filled with maniac drivers doing their utmost to deliver ice cream to the insatiable market.
This is what Swedish roads look like today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtB_idDcvME
Another clip, featuring how a Swedish tank nearly collides with a truck transporting ice cream and other consumables:
Totally mean - but funny! :)
I doubt that he'd be convicted by a jury of his peers.
“Lilyhammer.”
No, ay tink he used a drill.
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