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.

Where do the biggest liars in Finland come from? Simple: Lohja and Porvoo. Why exactly? Ask them how long it takes them to commute to Helsinki. They’ll flat out lie to you every single time… “Oh yeah, it’s only like 20 minutes from Lohja!” or “I can be downtown in less than 30 minutes from Porvoo!”. BULLSHIT!! Maybe it is if you’re driving a Ferrari going 180 at 2am in the summertime

It’s all a big conspiracy that every resident of Lohja and Porvoo are a member of. They all move out there to save money on housing cause they were all told it’s just 20 minutes away from the city. So they move out there, discover it’s like two hours in the car each day, then realize they just make big fools of themselves, then lie and tell people it takes them just 20 minutes to cover up their huge mistake.

Other liars in Finland: People in who think Tampere is a nicer city than Turku or Helsinki. People in Vantaa who claim it’s a nice place to live. And people like me in Espoo who claim it’s a “city” (it is Finland’s second largest city haven’t you heard?)

…what other liars are there in Finland?