March 2009

Day Eight: Hat Trick

A 21-year-old drug addict had not exactly demonstrated Sunday school behavior the last 24 hours. At 1120 the police had to 'apprehend' him at a Salvation Army-owned soup kitchen, where he h...

Day Seven: The Stone Crazy Olsvik Man

At around 11 AM the police received a multitude of phone calls from morbidly frightened mothers concerning "threats and stoning". The police came with half their force out to the suburb o...

Day Six, part II: A Visit at Henrik

In the afternoon, the woman regained consciousness again. She did however notice that she was no longer lying on the floor - she was hanging from the ceiling in an intricate web of ropes. She could...

Day Six: Crap in the Mail

This Saturday morning the streets of Bergen were completely deserted. Not a soul was seen anywhere - it was as if a plague had wiped out all the denizens of the messed up city. There was however so...

Day Five, part II: Foul Language

As if the turmoils of the day were not enough, there were also some additional news that people discovered later that day when reading the city newspaper during their lunch break. In addition to ha...

Day Five: The Tertnes Taxi Incident

In the suburb of Tertnes north of Bergen there was an incident with an allegedly bothersome customer and a taxi ride. A 25-year-old man had taken a taxi from the large shopping center Åsane Senter ...

Day Four: The Drunk Polish at the Airport

Introducing Lusy. The ghastly, weather-fucked Thursday morning began with a loud, ear-piercing scream that echoed through the Bergen streets. The owner of the scream was not likely to ever be known...

Day Three: Locked Inside the Toilet

The moment the hideous, old ruin of a clock tower rang 0700 that Wednesday morning, people poured out of every building like toothpaste being squeezed out of a tube. Every single face had an expres...

Day Two: Snowball Fight

At precisely 0700 this rainy, dreary Tuesday morning the Kingdom of Norway woke up with a thunderous roar. People from all over the Bergen city commune plunged out of their houses at once, at least...

Day One: The Doctor and the Bartender

At precisely 0700 Monday morning the Kingdom of Norway arose. Every door in Bergen opened simultaneously, and all the city's denizens dragged their skinny, wealthy asses out in the ghastly weat...
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