# Footage of Swedish terrorist attack uncovered **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 22, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513 "2017-02-22T22:39:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513/1 "2017-02-22T22:39:08Z")
Trump’s statement about a terror attack in Sweden were roundly condemned by media outlets as unfounded, but new video footage has been found verifying the claims of a terror attack. The video shows a female terrorist at a well known Swedish eatery get into an altercation with a cook. The cook threatens her, and the terrorist responds by shouting something in a foreign language and detonating a bomb. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tys8IZsq2RA/hqdefault.jpg "The Muppet Show: The Swedish Chef - Bomb Egg") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tys8IZsq2RA) ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513/2 "2017-02-22T22:42:35Z")
I’m going to go ahead and post what will inevitably be an unpopular opinion. Ban Swedes. Except the attractive ones. Have you ever seen an attractive terrorist? No, because hotties don’t need to use violence - a raised eyebrow will send most people running for cover, in fear of said hottie even saying something dripping with disdain. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513/3 "2017-02-23T03:37:34Z")
[quote=“Wesley\_Clark, post:1, topic:780513”] Trump’s statement about a terror attack in Sweden were roundly condemned by media outlets as unfounded, but new video footage has been found verifying the claims of a terror attack. The video shows a female terrorist at a well known Swedish eatery get into an altercation with a cook. The cook threatens her, and the terrorist responds by shouting something in a foreign language and detonating a bomb. [/QUOTE] That’s not a well known Swedish eatery. That’s a well known _mock_ Swedish eatery. Trump should actually have expressed concerning about what happened last night in mock Sweden ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513/4 "2017-02-23T06:23:47Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > That’s not a well known Swedish eatery. That’s a well known _mock_ Swedish eatery. Trump should actually have expressed concerning about what happened last night in mock Sweden But he actually did mock Sweden. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513/5 "2017-02-23T06:25:35Z")
How do you know, do you speak mock Swedish? ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513/6 "2017-02-23T07:55:16Z")
You know… Depending on when Trump said that, it _ **might** _ have been a bit of “telegraph game” (or “Chinese whispers”), with Trump getting some distorted second-hand information about an incident in Barcelona that involved a Swedish driver, and him shooting up his mouth as he is wont to do. On February 21, a Swedish national stole a small truck transporting butane gas cylinders (many people in Spain use butane gas cylinders for cooking at home) in Barcelona, got into the main ring road and started speeding on the wrong way with the truck. There was a police chase with shots fired. The truck was finally stopped and the driver was arrested. The driver had a history of psychiatric problems, had no criminal record (at least in Spain), was not armed, and was immediately sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. His name was reported as being Joakim Robin Berggren. The police thinks that it was either a psychotic break, or that the guy was under the influence of drugs. The Spanish government categorically denied that this had anything to do with terrorism. One woman was hurt when one butane cylinder fell off the truck as it was speeding towards the ring road and hit her on the leg. Info in Spanish: [Persecución a tiros de un camión de butano en la Ronda del Litoral](http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcelona/20170221/42197137781/camion-butano-ronda-litoral.html) Info from the BBC (a bit sketchy; the Spanish-language link gives more detailed info): [Swede detained after Barcelona police fire on stolen butane gas truck - BBC News](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39037674) So… Perhaps Trump heard or read something about “a Swedish driver”, a “truck with flammable gas cylinders” and “police chase”, put 2 and 2 together, and got 37235. I don’t know, this is just speculation. But as I said, depending on when he said that thing about Sweden… ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513/7 "2017-02-23T08:01:14Z")
It isn’t even as understandable a misunderstanding as that. He said himself that that was his summary of a documentary (slanted and based on out-of-date statistics) on Fox News about crime and immigrants in Sweden that he’d seen the previous night. And that was his considered analysis and understanding of the situation. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513/8 "2017-02-23T08:21:10Z")
> [@JoseB](#): > > You know… Depending on when Trump said that, it _ **might** _ have been a bit of “telegraph game” (or “Chinese whispers”), with Trump getting some distorted second-hand information about an incident in Barcelona that involved a Swedish driver, and him shooting up his mouth as he is wont to do. Nope. The Swedish guy was yesterday morning Barna time, the Trump line was previous. Nava, SDMB’s correspondent in Barcelona 😉 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513/9 "2017-02-23T12:40:39Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > How do you know, do you speak mock Swedish? I’ve had mock Swedish meatballs. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513/10 "2017-02-23T13:13:30Z")
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**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513/11 "2017-02-23T13:31:21Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > How do you know, do you speak mock Swedish? Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork! ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footage-of-swedish-terrorist-attack-uncovered/780513/12 "2017-02-24T07:32:21Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’ve had mock Swedish meatballs. I’ll accept that. > [@Morgyn](#): > > Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, > Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork! I’m sorry, I don’t speak mock Swedish.