'Stockholm Syndrome' Robber Returns From Thailand, Sent Back By Police

[BigJohnnyBKK]

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Sweden seems like such an excellent society - I wish the world could be simply carved up like in the old colonial days and turned over to the Scandinavians to run as our absolute overlords, the world would be a much better place.

I hope to meet this guy when he comes back.

[robblok]

Maybe just the statue of limitations. Every country has one.

[BigJohnnyBKK]

Maybe just the statue of limitations. Every country has one.

Sorry just couldn't resist

Sure, may be, but you have to admit the whole episode as described has a very different feel from what would've played out back home in any English-speaking country.

[VocalNeal]

he ordered a new passport and set up an account to receive his pension.

"I turn 65 this year," Olsson said.

Sorted.

[robblok]

Maybe just the statue of limitations. Every country has one.

Sorry just couldn't resist

Sure, may be, but you have to admit the whole episode as described has a very different feel from what would've played out back home in any English-speaking country.

Don't they have one where your from then ? I mean in general 15 years for financial crimes (not violent ones don't seem crazy)

[tinfoilhat]

Maybe just the statue of limitations. Every country has one.

Sorry just couldn't resist

Sure, may be, but you have to admit the whole episode as described has a very different feel from what would've played out back home in any English-speaking country.

dont mock him, you would just be adding salt to the jury over a finger of speech.

. In my experience, if a native speaker, makes a mistake like this with a common turn of phrase, it is always someone with only the most rudimentary of education who is barely functionally literate in that they only read when it is required of them, never for pleasure or as a leisure activity.

They have mis-heard the saying on tv or have mis-heard it in discussion, but never actually seen it in print.

obviously robbis different in that english is not the primary language,

[robblok]

Ok got it now its statute of limitation, and no i never saw it in print. Just have misheard it on TV shows and such. But it makes a lot more sense that statue of limitation.

Anyway what is the statute of limitation on financial crimes (without violence) I think 15 years is a long time.

You are correct about my primary language, but in general i pride myself on my English knowledge but this is a stupid mistake now i looked it up.

[BigJohnnyBKK]

Ok got it now its statute of limitation, and no i never saw it in print. Just have misheard it on TV shows and such. But it makes a lot more sense that statue of limitation.

Anyway what is the statute of limitation on financial crimes (without violence) I think 15 years is a long time.

You are correct about my primary language, but in general i pride myself on my English knowledge but this is a stupid mistake now i looked it up.

dont mock him, you would just be adding salt to the jury over a finger of speech.

That's why I put "sorry couldn't resist", didn't mean anything derogatory, struck me as a lovely turn of phrase and knew there had to be a suitable image out there.

And what I got from the article was that they'd just dropped the investigation because they didn't have enough hard evidence, so much time had passed rather than a strictly legal issue.

And as I said, the main thing that struck me about it was the light-hearted informal attitude, obviously this guy's a habitual criminal, perhaps now self-reformed but in any case "no big deal on your way back to Thailand with a pension and new passport." The copper he first bowled up to trying to shush him away without even filling out a form!

TL:DR It's the mood the tone of the thing that struck my fancy, compared to the heavy-handed jack-booted militaristic one of the authorities back home.

[robblok]

You are right about the mood, its a bit crazy. But it kinda depends what the crime is. It was not for bank robbery he did his time for that already. If it was just fraud... Not that i condone fraud. But we don't know much about the whole case.

[Pseudolus]

I assume the OP is taking the michael with his comment .....

"Sweden seems like such an excellent society - I wish the world could be simply carved up like in the old colonial days and turned over to the Scandinavians to run as our absolute overlords, the world would be a much better place."

One can assume he has not been to Sweden, knows anything about Sweden / Scandinavia in general; read the rest of the paper which gives a glimpse of the region, or even contemplated in the slightest that the price of his bottle of beer even in rural areas would be 400 baht plus.

Most notable though is their domestic violence record;

"Here, in simple terms are the results. 46% of the women had been subjected to violence by a man since her 15th birthday. 56% of all women were sexually harassed, regardless of age. 25% of the women had experienced physical violence since their 15th birthday"

Keep in mind that the fine ambassadors of Thailand in Sweden actually set up a abuse hotline to support all the Issan bargirls married off there when hubby drink turnip homebrew and beats her brains out for not speaking Swedish or daring to look one year older after a year of marriage or what ever other spurious reasons wife beaters use. The Thai Consulate! That do nothing apart from extort money from Farangs. They were actually prompted to do something. Says it all to me.

....(disclaimer; sure there are some very nice people from Scandinavia same as anywhere, and generalisms are not great)

[BigJohnnyBKK]

I assume the OP is taking the michael with his comment .....

"Sweden seems like such an excellent society - I wish the world could be simply carved up like in the old colonial days and turned over to the Scandinavians to run as our absolute overlords, the world would be a much better place."

I wasn't being sarcastic (michael?), and infer that you didn't really assume that since you posted the counterarguments.

One can assume he has not been to Sweden, knows anything about Sweden / Scandinavia in general; read the rest of the paper which gives a glimpse of the region, or even contemplated in the slightest that the price of his bottle of beer even in rural areas would be 400 baht plus.

Most notable though is their domestic violence record;

"Here, in simple terms are the results. 46% of the women had been subjected to violence by a man since her 15th birthday. 56% of all women were sexually harassed, regardless of age. 25% of the women had experienced physical violence since their 15th birthday"

Keep in mind that the fine ambassadors of Thailand in Sweden actually set up a abuse hotline to support all the Issan bargirls married off there when hubby drink turnip homebrew and beats her brains out for not speaking Swedish or daring to look one year older after a year of marriage or what ever other spurious reasons wife beaters use. The Thai Consulate! That do nothing apart from extort money from Farangs. They were actually prompted to do something. Says it all to me.

....(disclaimer; sure there are some very nice people from Scandinavia same as anywhere, and generalisms are not great)

Of course I was only being half serious, and don't claim to have in-depth knowledge of those societies. However from my research on education systems, the political/economic philosophy and overall system of government in that part of the world seems to me much more rational than my home (US) and other places I've lived. Perhaps it's only that their elites are more enlightened? I don't know. . .

So let me clarify and state that rather than having the common **people** from those countries become our overlords, I think the world would be a better place if their style of governance became universal.

The price of beer to me is hardly relevant, AFAIC the higher the better for all such harmful substances, especially if the tax/surcharges were being directly invested in combatting their ill effects. Same system for other drugs currently prohibited and fossil fuels as well, but those are other topics, let's not get into here.

I suspect a lot of the stats on domestic violence would be similar in many other countries, particularly compared to Thailand and the native English countries. I'm also pretty sure the methods by which they collect their statistics are more comprehensive and accurate than in many other countries too, these issues (like rape/incest/paedophilia within the family circle) tend to be under-reported in regimes that aren't as concerned about them or don't like to air their dirty linen in public.

Finally, simply the fact that these countries have such a higher proportion of imported Thai wives also to me says a lot about their superior taste and tolerant social attitudes, too bad the Thai government doesn't protect them here - where I'm sure they could use it at least as much - as well as it does over there.

[Semper]

Finally, simply the fact that these countries have such a higher proportion of imported Thai wives also to me says a lot about their superior taste

I presume you're joking.

[BigJohnnyBKK]

Finally, simply the fact that these countries have such a higher proportion of imported Thai wives also to me says a lot about their superior taste

I presume you're joking.

Not at all, superior taste by definition means that which mirrors mine 8-)

My sister in law (19, trained nurse) is living with a Norwegian in the rural north, population of 20K totally cut off for the 6 month long dark winter, and she reports they've got a large Thai temple, she's personally met hundreds of Thai women so far, they all get together for Isaan food parties, she's opened a (100% therapeutic) massage business, reckons they're all happy as clams, only get the occasional bit of flack from Norwegians, mostly snide comments from women.

Can't see that happening in Maine or even Alaska myself. . .

Came across this relevant link.

[Thinkingofachange]

Meanwhile Sweden puts Interpol on Julian Assange for not wearing a condom.

[dddave]

I don't know about Sweden but in the USA, the statute of limitations usually does not apply to fugitives who flee to avoid prosecution or imprisonment after having been charged or tried. It usually only applies to new charges being filed after a specified number of years.

[BigJohnnyBKK]

Meanwhile Sweden puts Interpol on Julian Assange for not wearing a condom.

Somehow I doubt any of that would have come about if he wasn't targetted by the policeman of the world. I can't see the Scandinavian governments getting up to the kind of shenanigans he's so heroically exposed.