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Couple fined for sex during concert
A COUPLE fined for copulating on stage as 4000 fans applauded and The Cumshots played on at a Norwegian rock festival have said they wonât pay. "No, that fine is ridiculous. Thereâll be no fine here, thereâll be a legal process and the whole shebang," Tommy Hol Ellingsen told TV2 television on its online news site.
| They give you a choice about paying fines in Norway? |
Ellingsen, 28, and his 21-year-old girlfriend Leona Johansson were called up on stage during The Cumshots concert by the lead singer, where they had sex for almost 10 minutes as the crowd cheered and the band played on. Police later fined them 10,000 kroner ($2031) each. The on-stage sex at the Quart music festival in the southern city of Kristiansand made it to the top of the countryâs news headlines. But it was later discovered to be a pre-arranged public relations gimmick to raise money for the coupleâs environmental group, called F--- for Forest, which raises money for organizations working to protect the rain forest.
Among other things, the couple have launched a pornographic website where visitors to the site can pay $20 a month to view videos of them making love.
| That's an original idea. There aren't any other sites like that are there? |
Organizers of the Quart festival had forced a Korean artist who planned to film couples having sex inside a tent on the festival grounds to cancel the shoot at the last minute, media reports said. Having sex in public is illegal in Norway and carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison. The five Cumshots band members were also fined 10,000 kroner each. Organisers of the festival have meanwhile said they were disappointed that the sex stunt had overshadowed the music.
What the hell did they think was gonna happen?
I'm actually surprised at all this carnal activity in Norway. I was there on business, back in the Paleolithic age. There's a high per-capita incidence of lovely women in Oslo and Vadso, and presumably in between as well. Yet there I was, giving myself whiplash while my Norwegian colleagues continued solemnly discussing networks and databases and other such things. I eventually came to the conclusion they imported little Norwegians from Sweden or Lappland or somewhere. |
Posted by: tipper 2004-07-08 |
