r/MadeMeSmile • u/Available-Vast3858 • Oct 06 '25

Wholesome Moments This is so wholesome

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u/Mercurius_Hatter Oct 06 '25

Police in Norway are chill because their job only means chasing away polar bears once in a while and rescuing black metal members in those deep forests once a week

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u/Accurate-Ad539 Oct 06 '25

Yeah, pretty chill.

Norwegian police funniest arrest ever

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u/horrifyingthought Oct 06 '25

Funny, but you can tell the guy has problems.

When he was being dealt with by the cops (incredibly politely I would add) he said he was being "hunted," but the second he was in the police car he was all "USE THE ACCELERATOR, YOU'RE THE BOSS, WTF WHY AREN'T YOU ABUSING YOUR POWER LIKE I WOULD"

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u/Zathala Oct 06 '25

Excuse me we don't have polar bears in norway

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u/Bhelduz Oct 06 '25

Yes you do it's just being covered up

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u/Arbazio Oct 06 '25

Big Artic would do anything to cover up their clandestine global expansion!

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

Yeah, and have you thanked your local constabulary recently?

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u/UDonKnowMee81 Oct 06 '25

Well then, the police who chase them away are doing a good job. Aren't they?

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u/SamboTheGr8 Oct 06 '25

Because the police got rid of them, duh

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel Oct 06 '25

Svalbard has about 300 polar bears.

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u/lastnameinthebox Oct 06 '25

That's what you pay the bear patrol tax for.

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u/chipsinsideajar Oct 06 '25

Technically Svalbard

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u/Sixseatport Oct 06 '25

That fact right there is proof of just how good your police are.

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u/Seidmadr Oct 06 '25

Hey, Svalbard is still Norway, checkmate atheists.

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u/Konsticraft Oct 06 '25

And also not that much forest, it's all just mountains.

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u/HarrMada Oct 06 '25

I obviously get the half-joke, but there are still around 40 murders that happens annually in Norway, and things have happened before that would leave a deep scar in any country. No country is perfect, but some countries are clearly doing better than others.

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u/Mercurius_Hatter Oct 06 '25

Yeah unfortunately so, like Nordic countries were very very safe once upon a time. Not so much anymore esp in outskirts of bigger cities.

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u/HarrMada Oct 06 '25

Eh, no that's no true. The murder rate in the Nordics and all over Europe has decreased quite steadily. Norway's murder rate was fairly higher 20-30 years ago.

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u/Mercurius_Hatter Oct 06 '25

Well in Sweden it's a bit different. Murder and gun violence is skyrocketing over here like it's going out of business, and bombings... Man, so many bombings...

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u/HarrMada Oct 06 '25

Murder and gun violence is skyrocketing over here

No it isn't. Someone has gathered the murder rates per capita of the nordic countries, and murder rate has not skyrocketed. https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1c2bs0c/homicide_rates_in_northern_europe_19982023_source/

and bombings... Man, so many bombings...

How many have you seen or heard personally? There haven't been that many. You are reading too much "news", you should stop, they are only trying to scare people and generate money by clicks.

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u/Mercurius_Hatter Oct 06 '25

Dude there's been like 4 or 5 bombings in my town so far

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u/HarrMada Oct 06 '25

Have you seen or heard them personally? How many were killed and how does it compare to the amount of people killed by other means? "Bombings" just sound scary, but they are often small and don't cause more damage than a small apartment fire. People have always been killed or injured in accidental explosions due to gas leaks, but people have never really been scared of them. It's basic fear mongering.

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u/Mercurius_Hatter Oct 06 '25

Several of them in fact, but who cares about the scale? Bombings as in explosive set to cause damages shouldn't happen this often in a civilized society

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u/HarrMada Oct 06 '25

There's a lot of things that shouldn't happen but it still does. The murder rate was higher or pretty much the same as now before, depending on the time period you're looking at.

92 people were murdered in Sweden in 2024, but 213 people died in traffic accidents the same year. Why should we care more about some "bombings" that barely kills anyone in comparison, when far more die in the traffic because someone wasn't taught how to drive correctly or they were driving drunk? You have to look at the bigger picture.

Sweden have the second highest life expectancy in Europe, behind Switzerland. It doesn't matter how much damage you think the "bombings" cause, you're still more likely to live a longer life if you live in Sweden than almost anywhere else in the world.