Norway Tragedy - interesting (lack of a) story

[Pubey]

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If a Married Lesbian Couple Saves 40 Teens from the Norway Massacre and No One Writes About it, Did it Really Happen?

1 Aug


By this point, most of you have heard about the tragedy in Norway a few weeks ago when a Christian Fundamentalist murdered 92 people and injured another 96. The story has been well-covered by International media and the mainstream press here in the US.

What you probably have not heard about is the married lesbian couple who rescued 40 teenagers during and after the bloody event. Several blogs and gay and lesbian publications are now picking up the story, but the heavy hitters who usually kill for hero stories like this, have remained silent.

The Finnish capital city’s largest daily newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, published this account (translated from Finnish):

Hege Dalen and her spouse, Toril Hansen were near Utöyan having dinner on the opposite shore across from the ill-fated campsite, when they began to hear gunfire and screaming on the island.

“We were eating. Then shooting and then the awful screaming. We saw how the young people ran in panic into the lake,” says Dale to HS in an interview.

The couple immediately took action and pushed the boat into Lake Tyrifjorden.

Dalen and Hansen drove the boat to the island, picked up from the water victims in shock in, the young and wounded, and transported them to the opposite shore to the mainland. Between runs they saw that the bullets had hit the right side of the boat.

Since there were so many and not all fit at once aboard, they returned to the island four times.

They were able to rescue 40 young people from the clutches of the killer.

“We did not sleep last night at all. Today, we have been together and talked about the events,” Dalen said.

Seems really strange that this hasn't made the news.

 

[Rudi Luftwaffe]

Boats don't have a right side, the have a starboard side.

Perhaps innacuracies like this prevented this going viral?

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

The detail about him being a Christian fundamentalist is a little off too, but that wouldn't have stopped the secular loony press. This is a mystery to me Pubester, seems like something the Beeb and the Grauniad would be jerking off to publish. Perhaps it's bollocks?

 

[maninasuitcase]

I believe they played an interview with the couple on Radio 5 live a few of days after the event, or certainly a very similar story. They didn't mention anything about the couple being gay, maybe they didn't know, didn't think it was relevant or it was another couple.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Now in the Independent, so maybe it is true.

The detail about him being a Christian fundamentalist is a little off too, but that wouldn't have stopped the secular loony press. This is a mystery to me Pubester, seems like something the Beeb and the Grauniad would be jerking off to publish. Perhaps it's bollocks?

and your beloved Daily Mail who seem to have gone all "secular loony".

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Now in the Independent, so maybe it is true and your beloved Daily Mail who seem to have gone all "secular loony".

I have no love for the Daily Mail, their pandering to the blue rinse set gets right on my thruppennies. However, I would not include them as members of the 'secular loony' press.

 

[Eastblack]

This is in the i today too.

 

[Spartan]

The detail about him being a Christian fundamentalist is a little off too, but that wouldn't have stopped the secular loony press. This is a mystery to me Pubester, seems like something the Beeb and the Grauniad would be jerking off to publish. Perhaps it's bollocks?

Think you nailed it. Typical poor journalism This guy probably had issues up stairs which were deliberately swept under the carpet by some of the press.
I'll give one example the Washington sniper. Some of the press blamed his conversion to Islam and yet didn't bother to dig deeper into his background.
The guy was in a stable mind and a loving father. He came back from the 1st Gulf war and was never the same. The collapse of his marriage tipped him over the edge to go on a rampage. This is what his ex wife said and other family members.

Why do people treat Papers and political parties like football clubs? They seem to have an allegiance to them forever?

 

[Firestorm]

The detail about him being a Christian fundamentalist is a little off too, but that wouldn't have stopped the secular loony press. This is a mystery to me Pubester, seems like something the Beeb and the Grauniad would be jerking off to publish. Perhaps it's bollocks?

I am with Rusty on the Christian Fundamentalist bit. It was a political act not a religious one