Well, last week in Sweden was just so exciting that we couldn’t pick just one story for your reading pleasure, so we have decided to condense the 
novelty Swedish news from last week into one exciting report. But how on earth can this be? We hear you cry. One country cannot possibly have more than one story worthy of Newsnibbles’ particular attention. Well read on and see.
A Swedish post office was brought to a standstill on Thursday March 8th by a mysterious vibration. A package was prevented from reaching its destination by the bomb squad, who decided to ere on the side of caution and blow it up under controlled conditions, revealing the remnants of an electric toothbrush. What is perhaps most impressive about the whole thing is that according to The Local’s report the reason for the unexplained vibration was that the toothbrush was “switched firmly to on” – which could mean one of two things. Either the Swedish postal system is amazingly efficient and the toothbrush arrived from the time it was boxed, packaged, addressed and transported to the post office within the average battery life of an electric toothbrush, or this electric toothbrush has the ultimate power source which should be utilised for powering small cities. The matter certainly requires further investigation, but we don’t do that sort of thing, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
So, what else could possibly be as exciting as vibrating packages? Poo packages is what! When a Swedish woman checked the best before date on her milk it appeared that some cheeky employee had changed what should have said “packaged on 26th” (presumably of February) to “Poo the 26th”. Being the diligent newshounds we are we did a tiny bit of investigation to see if this could just be a typo. So, the Swedish for “packaged” is “förpackas”, the Swedish for “poo” is “poo” but the Swedish for “poop” is “bajs” which is what it said on the milk. So, no typos. Big LOLs were certain to have been had by whatever employee likes poo as much as we do, although generally not mixed with milk…
And finally, to round up our Swedish report we have some tomfoolery involving a potted plant. A thirty two year old woman was arrested and charged with theft and assault when she attempted to abducted a potted plant from its home in Trelleborg, southern Sweden last week. The woman tried to escape with the plant aboard her bicycle, but the owner of said plant had other ideas and pursued her in his car. When he caught up with the plantnapping renegade she was still reluctant to surrender her booty and despite having her dog in tow bit the man on the arm herself. The man is now demanding she pay his medical bills of $75. The health of the plant after this traumatic ordeal is unclear.
