A student who threw a cake at Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen last October has been charged with committing a crime against the Norwegian Constitution.

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The student from Valdres has been charged with violation paragraph 99 of the Criminal Code, hindering a member of the government from carrying out their duties. The man is also charged with assault and defamation by frightening or bothersome behavior.

Halvorsen, who did not press charges over the incident, has been summoned as a witness for the trial, which is scheduled to be held in Oslo on Oct. 11.

The man, who has maintained that the cake flinging was an innocent prank, was completely unprepared for the backlash of the stunt and has since dropped his studies and lost his job.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1402707.ece

This guy was totally wrong to do this, but come'on, it's just a prank! 15 years?? It's a cake, not a poison dart!

Once an ACO tried to put a leash around my dog's neck, & I swept it off. She then tried to have me arrested for, get this, ASSAULTING AN OFFICER! Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but there's a world of difference between assaulting an officer &, say, obstruction of "justice", which is more likely what that could have been described as, at the most.

City employees seem to feel that they're just so much more important than the rest of us, that they should be revered like royalty or something.

BadNews, jwreck, you guys are cops, right? What do you guys think?:confused:

Some fiefdom's governments come down pretty hard on what is ordianrily an innocuous act.......:hmm:

Some fiefdom's governments come down pretty hard on what is ordianrily an innocuous act.......:hmm:

Yeah, I guess in European countries, the whole royalty mind set is much more rooted. Well, hopefully the kid gets off with a week or two instead of 15 years.

At least things are getting better. Can you imagine how this would've been handled a few hundred years ago? If some flea-bitten peasant threw a tomato at even a minor duke, he'd be up in stocks before you could say "Haha, gotcha!":p :hmm: :(

Afterwards the student came forward in newspaper VG and said he had thrown the pastry in order to stimulate debate about whether Norway was well served by having a minister of finance from the Socialist Left Party.

The question of what the 24-year-old student would be charged with has been left up to the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the final decision carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.

He was an idiot to come forward! And to admit that it was because he didn't like the guy's politics. At 24 years old he should have known better. I'm not sayin' he deserves fifteen years, but man... what an idiot.

Halvorsen is a woman, and I doubt that he'll get more than a couple of weeks, if he even goes to prison. Remember that the thing he's being charged with is "hindering a member of the government from carrying out their duties", which rightfully has a severe maximum punishment.

I still think it's funny, though. Poor guy must've had quite a shock finding out of that maximum punishment :D

Halvorsen is a woman, and I doubt that he'll get more than a couple of weeks, if he even goes to prison. Remember that the thing he's being charged with is "hindering a member of the government from carrying out their duties", which rightfully has a severe maximum punishment.

I still think it's funny, though. Poor guy must've had quite a shock finding out of that maximum punishment :D

Yeah, he probably thought he'd be heralded as some kind of political hero; I'd like to have seen the look on his face when his moment of glory fell through:

"Yes, it was I! :mad: I threw the cake in protest of your deplorable- :eek: hey, what- let me go!" *cli-click of handcuffs*:p

the kind of people who have the judgment to throw a cake at a high level government official as a prank deserve to be behind bars for a good bit

a prank is when you TP your best friend's house

honk the horn at 3am when you drop him off drunk in his driveway




throwing a cake at a minister is not a prank, its idiocy

...throwing a cake at a minister is not a prank, its idiocy
Sure it's dumb, & I believe in being hard on crime, but this is not a dangerous or violent crime. If he'd cut her with a knife, maybe five years. But just how long would some guy spend in jail if he threw a cake at you or me?

:rolleyes: <- The policeman taking that report.

Just send him to that Norwegian island where the convicts get there own house, exercise and entertainment. I wan't to move to Norway and get put in jail.

throwing a cake at a minister is not a prank, its idiocy

True....

Who knows? That "icing" could very well be chocolate with a sodium cyanide base, or vanilla with sodium phenobarbitol "candy" sprinkles..:eek3:

sounds to me like someone needs better security...

This whole thing reminds me of the Michael Cain thing in Singapore years ago.

sounds to me like someone needs better security...- Actually, scandinavians take a bit of pride in the fact that important politicians can walk around on the street without an armed escort, just like normal people

- Actually, scandinavians take a bit of pride in the fact that important politicians can walk around on the street without an armed escort, just like normal people

It WAS that way...once....

It WAS...until 1986....when Swedish Prime Minister OLOF PALME was struck down by an assassin's gun whilst walking home with his wife from a Stockholm cinema. The unknown assailant was never apprehended............:( :mad:

And then in 2003 (On a 11 September, to be exact.. :eek7: ), Finance Minister ANNA LINDH was stabbed to death at the N.K. Department Store by an Eastern European immigrant.:( :mad:

It's a CRUEL and DIFFERENT WORLD out there now...It's NOT the 1960's or 1970's anymore......


This is the POSSIBLE reason why the sentenced levied against the pie thrower was as SEVERE as it was...:hmm:


And to be HONEST, the RECIPIENT got off LUCKY...for as said BEFORE:

Who knows? That "icing" could very well be chocolate with a sodium cyanide base or vanilla with sodium phenobarbitol cnady "sprinkles".. :eek3: