“Ghosts stop barn demolition” or “Why America will never be as cool at the rest of the world”
Just a little re-cap in case the link to the article goes bad. Apparently there is a man who owns a old, delapated barn in the Norwegian city of Tromsø.
["Local officials had called the dilapidated building a hazard and ordered it to be torn down." Its owner protested, claiming that he didn't dare go near the barn himself. "Many years ago, I removed its roof," he wrote in a letter to the building officials. "The result was that I had several encounters with the underworld. And I fell gravely ill."There are underworld creatures living in that barn," the man wrote. "My entire family knows about this."]
Now if this happened here in the USA you can guess what would happen. They would lock the old man up for being crazy and then probably take him to court to make him tare down the barn. What did the Tromsø building officials do? Told the man that while they would like to see the structure made safe they wouldn’t make him tare it down.
“Sometimes we just have to accept that there’s more between heaven and earth than between the files and rules in the township’s building code,” Tromsø building chief Hallvard Thon told local newspaper Tromsø.
Forget Canada I want to move to Norway now! They rock!
On non-ghost related matters work was alright today, had five cases so I kept busy for most of the day. Nothing very exciting, some cocaine, marihuana, and a few crack pipes. Whee! This week is going to be a long one, not only did I agree to work veterans day which we normally have off but this Saturday is my first overtime pick day. Whee for overtime…or something like that. What makes it worth while is that I can use the money for when the girl comes to visit in December!
W00T!
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