Strange News

The Metropolis Magazine always lists strange news of Japan (as seen as trough US eyes). This week one of them was

"A 69-year-old Finnish pianist was arrested for stealing ¥27,000 worth of items at a department store in Yokohama."

It is all too easy to laugh at a foreign culture - to avoid that I did some googling about funny news from Finland

Here are some of the best - we Finns sure are stupid!
:-(

http://stezz.blogspot.com/2008/09/funny-news-from-finland.html

http://simoniito.blogspot.com

And the best of all http://www.finlandforthought.net/: Nothing excites a Finn. Although he is very patriotic he cannot lightly rise to laughter or descend to tears ; his unruffled temperament is, perhaps, one of the chief characteristics of his strange nature. …… Mrs. Alex Tweedie, 1897!

Three years ago it seemed like apocalyptic times in Finland
http://rosapahkala.blogspot.com/2006/05/uutisia-suomesta.html