I hired a Contract RobinHood
@ 9:23 am This piece of news from the Helsingin Sanomat really rang up high on the bizarrometer.
OK, so we have teenage angst and too much tv:
Police suspect that a 16-year-old Helsinki girl paid a 19-year-old man to kill her mother.
And what was with this “handgun ownership” so rampant in Finland then?
A moment later the woman felt a strong blow to the back of her head… One of the men had shot the woman with a crossbow - the kind that is used to shoot small game, police say.
Kinda… medieval this one.
Police say that the 16-year-old daughter had promised the 19-year-old man a cash payment for the killing. The daughter did not live with the mother at the time of the attack. The man had persuaded two 20-year-old friends to join him. The crime was planned at the Espoo home of a fourth man, who now faces charges of aiding and abetting. The suspects, all native-born Finns, do not have any prior criminal records.
Kids, don’t eat that yellow snow.
Espoo strikes again!
Comment by Freeridin' Franklin — Wed, Jan 30th, 2008 @ 9:37 am
Filed under “trying to be funny?”
Really? Where’s the humour here? I’m sure all involved are splitting at the seams.
Once again Hank, your posting leave my head spinning.
Comment by Punter — Wed, Jan 30th, 2008 @ 9:40 am
Good the mother survived. The daughter must be pretty whacked out in order to want to kill her mother.
Comment by Yrjö-Kyösti Pörhölä — Wed, Jan 30th, 2008 @ 11:44 am
For real, I thought I wanted to
kill my parents during my angst filled
teen angst days, but my solution
was to roll one up and listen to Bob Marley.
I was living in Texas at the time, so
I certainly had an opportunity to run into
ignorance and access to hunting gear.
Actually finding someone with a cross bow
meant I would not talk to these people, just
crawl into my shell, not actually follow
through with morbid plans of . . . dang.
Stay away from the suburbs people, your
children deserve better.
Comment by Ari Sawyer — Wed, Jan 30th, 2008 @ 12:12 pm
It’s not the girl who about whom I wonder so much, it’s the “adult” dolts who actually take on a contract killing. Drunken stabbings are pretty easy to process, this definitely is not.
Comment by maissi — Wed, Jan 30th, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
My guess is that this is one of the “good” families of Espoo, where the parents were too busy making €€€ to bother with raising their kids. Hence, it’s all Lord of the Flies for the young’uns. Pretty parallel to the cellphone merchants of Mankkaa from 2000.
But I’m sure the yellow press will soon fill us in on the details.
Comment by Freeridin' Franklin — Wed, Jan 30th, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
“…this is one of the “good†families of Espoo”
I think the Iltarag reported that the mom was from southern Helsinki and they had moved to Kuusitie. Of course, S-Helsinki can be the posh Eira/Kaivopuisto or the dreadful Punavuori with pooping drunks etc. reported in the literature.
I’m also betting the “Lord of the Flies” -scenario.
Comment by Antti rn — Wed, Jan 30th, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
Antti:
“Of course, S-Helsinki can be the posh Eira/Kaivopuisto or the dreadful Punavuori”
Or for a really hardcore option, inbred Suomenlinna.
For those not in the know, less than 1000 people live there and despite being a part of Helsinki, the place is sufficiently isolated to have those small village social dynamics. With village idiots and everything.
Comment by Freeridin' Franklin — Thu, Jan 31st, 2008 @ 9:01 am
The papers said today that the mother had three children, all of whom had run away when they got to teen-age. They were taken to Institution after this. Apparently there had been several papers filed about the possibility that the mother was unfit to be a parent. The kids wanted away from her, but she wanted to be with her children - and keep the children away from their friends.
While the end result is pretty bizarre, I could understand why I would want a person like that out of my life. Plus upbringing like that would leave anyone a bit woozy.
It is kind of poetic though, that you are rising a person so that she wants to kill you - and still loving her every step on the way.
Comment by Juho Salo — Thu, Jan 31st, 2008 @ 12:47 pm
>>>My guess is that this is one of the “good†families of Espoo, where the parents were too busy making €€€ to bother with raising their kids. <<<
According to HS the family often lacked food, and they were ejected several times from several homes due to unpayed rents. The relatives (who wished to stay unknown) said that the girl was very depressed, and likely to see murder as the only way to get herself free from the mother. So no, good family it was not.
Comment by presso — Thu, Jan 31st, 2008 @ 1:07 pm
And the thing is, the mother was studying to be a nurse… now I hope she won’t be the death angel when I’m pissing in my pants in Peijas…
Comment by Hank W. — Thu, Jan 31st, 2008 @ 10:15 pm