Hey everybody!

 

I'd like to share this event (which happened yesterday) to all of you on LCPDFR, because this is quite a rare thing. And not only rare, but completely random in my neighbourhood, and schools in Sweden overall.

 

So, two students were stupid enough to put a tire on fire inside a emergency exit. Nothing got damaged and no one was injured. However, it created a lot of black smoke, which is usually does when you burn rubber.

 

Part of my schools official statement : "Two students started a fire.  While the fire department and the police responded no evacuation was necessary as it was extinguished by personnel.  All emergency protocols were followed through immediately."

 

So, what happened to the students? Well, since they're minors, they won't get sent to prison, spend time in jail or whatever. What I believe will happen is that they'll be charged for "attempted arson" (Försök till mordbrand in Swedish) for putting something on fire at a emergency exit, and their parents are going to pay a lot of money because of this.

 

I'd just like to share this little story because I was shocked. I saw fire fighters with their breathing apparatus on when our lesson ended.

 

If you have any questions please post them in the comment section, and thanks for reading this :)

Edited January 16, 201412 yr by Crizby

I'm not sure how it works out in Sweden. But in the US, these students would be expelled from school most definetly. They will be taken into custody by the Police and taken to a Juvinile Justice Center (aka Juvinile Detention, Juvi, etc), where they'll eventually have their case decided by a judge who will decide if they'll be in in juvi until they're 18 (or however long deemed appropriate, and then transferred to an adult jail for additional time if it appears necessary) or be let go, but be ordered to attend a special school for students who had done some serious offenses (such as this one case of a girl I know that had dropped a guy's pants during PE (supposidly by accident, but she couldn't convince the officials at the school, she got expelled and had to attend that special school instead.))

Either way, if Sweden's Juvi system works ANYTHING like the US's, these students will likely be immediately expelled from the school, and even setting foot on the campus will give them a tresspassing charge. That's sometihng I can say for sure. Since the fire was set on the inside, and because of the properties of smoke, and damage caused by the smoke, I could see a Arson Charge flat out rather an attempted Arson Charge. There could be some endangerment charges of some sort due to the highly toxic nature of burning tires.

Edited January 15, 201412 yr by Leonov

@Leonov - "I could see a Arson Charge flat out rather an attempted Arson Charge. There could be some endangerment charges of some sort due to the highly toxic nature of burning tires.", totally agree.

Well, welcome to Sweden... Our justice system doesn't really believe in putting kids in Juvinile Justice Center. At most, they'd get expelled from the school for a while. However, in Sweden it only counts as a "attemped" arson if I rembember right (for what they did).

 

The police did "arrest" them, or take them "down town", but that was only for questioning and talking to the parents. The police station is right across the street from my school (literally). So it didn't take too long for them to respond. Same with the FD, however, they're like 4 minutes away.

 

Anyways, thanks for your comments, and I really love comparing US to Sweden. Especially when it comes to laws

 

Keep the comments comming

Wow, that's something that comes as a surprise there. There isn't any sort of special school that they can get sent to either, like the one I described above?

 

Anyways, Expulsion is usually perminent from the school, with the more temporary form being Suspension (and some districts have two forms of it, ISS (In School Suspension) in which students have to show up to school and pretty much do nothing but sit in a classroom, and the more better known Out of School Suspension, which like Expulsion, the student is kicked out, but once the time is up, the students are allow back in (though these are counted as un-excused absences, which at some districts, like my local one I think means a student might fail a year alone based on that alone, even if they did well academically (the number I think is something insanely low, like 10 days of unexcused too, thoguh most suspensions last anywhere between two or three days to 2 weeks, with the most serious ones before expulsion being up to a month.))

 

Of course, it is nothing like the old days, especially here in FL where the state would force the kids to go to a boarding school (which is what Juvi is more or less), but would find themselves enduring some horrific conditions. Read up on the Doizer school as it was the biggest one in the state. In FL, skipping school and being caught by the PD was enough to warrent beign sent there.

It happened at my old school a while back, a student set a garbage can on fire in a bathroom and the fire alarm went off and the school evacuated, even though a staff member extinguished it, the fire department still responded and the school was ventilated and we stood out in the cold for an hour (the student was caught on a security camera and was charged with arson)

Ha this is hilarious.

girl I know that had dropped a guy's pants during PE (supposidly by accident, but she couldn't convince the officials at the school, she got expelled and had to attend that special school instead.))

I know a guy who dropped another guys pants just a few weeks ago. No one gave a shit, even though his genitals were pretty much exposed. Outside, in winter as well.

I know a guy who dropped another guys pants just a few weeks ago. No one gave a shit, even though his genitals were pretty much exposed. Outside, in winter as well.

In your location you forgot to put "Eastern Hemisphere". :P

Edited January 15, 201412 yr by CriminalKillaz

I know a guy who dropped another guys pants just a few weeks ago. No one gave a shit, even though his genitals were pretty much exposed. Outside, in winter as well.

 

Hahahaha! That really does sound like a my school Eventhough it's a English school in Sweden, (and we have quite strict rules) my school always seem to have the most troubled kids

I know a guy who dropped another guys pants just a few weeks ago. No one gave a shit, even though his genitals were pretty much exposed. Outside, in winter as well.

 

It's called pantsing, and its sexual harassment, some teachers don't give a shit but others do, some kid pantsed another kid in front of the teacher and she didn't even say anything and he reported the kid but nobody gave a shit and when a girl got pansted there was a police investigation...

Haha! I'm really enjoying these "pantsing" stories Keep 'em comming

I know a guy who dropped another guys pants just a few weeks ago. No one gave a shit, even though his genitals were pretty much exposed. Outside, in winter as well.

I had a classmate who walked into the girls bathroom before. He didn't come back until 3 weeks later

Edited January 15, 201412 yr by gamerdanger99

I remember a kid who used to pick on me, not many people liked him but he was def a follower, followed his "friends" around all the time, anyway, one morning he was waiting outside the school at the bus loop, hundreds of kids & one of his "friends" ran up & pantsed him.. he never wore underwear, needless to say, those "friends" weren't his friends anymore & everyone to this day brings up his tiny pee pee lol

I remember a kid who used to pick on me, not many people liked him but he was def a follower, followed his "friends" around all the time, anyway, one morning he was waiting outside the school at the bus loop, hundreds of kids & one of his "friends" ran up & pantsed him.. he never wore underwear, needless to say, those "friends" weren't his friends anymore & everyone to this day brings up his tiny pee pee lol

 

Hahaha what a great story! Really enjoyed it. About the picking on you part, I'm guessing karma at the end of the story....

It's called pantsing, and its sexual harassment, some teachers don't give a shit but others do, some kid pantsed another kid in front of the teacher and she didn't even say anything and he reported the kid but nobody gave a shit and when a girl got pansted there was a police investigation...

A police investigation!? Wouldn't that just affect someone for the worse, I mean, who'd want the history of being the victim of 'sexual harassment' looming over their head? She must have a very awkward time wherever she goes now. Anyway, in terms of all these differences between gender, I think guys just deal with it better, psychologically, as many women are generally inferior (not how I want society to be, but thats how society is) to men, so they feel they need more protection due to their vulnerability (not saying all women are vulnerable, of course).

 

In your location you forgot to put "Eastern Hemisphere". :P

Will be fixed :D

*Sigh*... kids. Why can't they leave stuff alone? I had this problem at my previous school, where some students will set fire to trashcans etc (outdoors, but still). 

Also, in my town a kindergarten (i dont know the right word in english) was burned down, because some little kids had a lightner and went to a bathroom to burn some toilet paper. fire department was like 500 meters from there, but the building was damaged very badly and later demolished. now there is a fenced area with foundations of a house and a playground and that looks kinda creepy to me.

Also, in my town a kindergarten (i dont know the right word in english) was burned down, because some little kids had a lightner and went to a bathroom to burn some toilet paper. fire department was like 500 meters from there, but the building was damaged very badly and later demolished. now there is a fenced area with foundations of a house and a playground and that looks kinda creepy to me.

 

Well, sounds kind of creepy for me too. Anyways, who gives a kid at kindergarten a lightner? People are really stupid these days. Sucks that people just can't stop doing stupid things, what if they had a bility to see the future and see what would happen if they did certain things? I know it's never going to happen but it would really help people understand that they should think before they do things.

 

A good thing we have in Sweden is the fire departments fire preventation talks with students and kids at kindergarten. Then most of the fire stations have a service day when they're open to the public and people can talk with firefighters, try out their bunker coats, sit in the fire truck etc... I think that it's a good way of preventing fire's, same with the police, but their stations aren't open.  However it's always going to  be stupid people around...

Well, sounds kind of creepy for me too. Anyways, who gives a kid at kindergarten a lightner? People are really stupid these days. Sucks that people just can't stop doing stupid things, what if they had a bility to see the future and see what would happen if they did certain things? I know it's never going to happen but it would really help people understand that they should think before they do things.

 

A good thing we have in Sweden is the fire departments fire preventation talks with students and kids at kindergarten. Then most of the fire stations have a service day when they're open to the public and people can talk with firefighters, try out their bunker coats, sit in the fire truck etc... I think that it's a good way of preventing fire's, same with the police, but their stations aren't open.  However it's always going to  be stupid people around...

we also have those open door days here in finland, but to little kids its mostly fun, not anything to learn from. mostly in schools we have anti bullying programs and once there was a cop visiting our school and showing pictures of people beaten up by a gang or something. that was weird. also i remember seeing some military (possibly navy) officers around our school too........ but yeah, we need more education about fire safety.