Posted on 10/12/2016 5:36:13 PM PDT by brucedickinson
Despite Swedes' reputation as a peaceful and mild-mannered people, confiscations of batons at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport have exploded in 2016, Swedish state broadcaster SVT revealed. According to Swedish customs authorities, batons are being illegally ordered abroad by Swedish citizens for self-defense.Swedish authorities were obviously taken aback by the findings and failed to produce a reasonable explanation. We honestly do not know why people have started to smuggle more batons," Mats Pettersson argued. "Most people we talked to said they need batons to protect themselves and don't intend to use them for criminal activities," Mats Pettersson continued.
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It’s one of the mysteries of the universe I tell you!
LOL!
Idiots.
Gee, I wonder why/s
Sink the bloody boats
Because guns and swords are harder to get.
What cloud do these people live in?
They've passed the test to work for the NFL.
"Most people we talked to said they need batons to protect themselves and don't intend to use them for criminal activities,"
Probably against sharia law. Time for a summary decapitation.
It’s a variation of stickball, an innocent sport. Normally for whacking a tennis ball (that’s what you tell the authorities). But can optionally be used to whack the head of muslim punks who try to assault you (that’s what you don’t tell the authorities).
Where the Hell is Dolph Lundgren at? Why isn’t he running for President there and stopping this crap?
I bought about a dozen S&W collapsible batons and 6 pepper gel dispensers. I can carry anywhere here and i did do a against the tide bike ride home in the middle of a black lives matter protest. They were all very nice.
I think a Swedish Lahti M40 Pistol would be better than a baton.
The Swedish constabulary should consult the Koran for possible motives.
You set foot on my acreage and you won’t get no baton.
He's having his daughter learn self-defense because they're building new Islamic slums near all of the train stations which the kids use to get to school.
Batons today, tomorrow the guns.
(Authorities “Puzzled”)
Always learning new things. We learn today that stupid means the same thing as puzzled.
I’m puzzled by this puzzling puzzlement.
Funny you say that, I know friends that export to Europe and say basic things like pepper spray and stun guns are illegal (not saying real guns, which they’d never do), but can you believe it.
I guess a woman is suppose to lay back and take it, Like that woman in in a wheel chair in Sweden that needed to use the bathroom yesterday raped by 6 in the refugee camp.
what is a baton?
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