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Helsinki High Avoids Mass Darwin Award
2004-04-02
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - When graduating from a high school called "Hellu," wearing a class shirt that reads "Hellus Angels" might seem like harmless school spirit - unless it's worn in a bar where Hells Angels members have strong feelings about trademark infringement.
They are real sensitive about that.
After a student at the Helsinki school was beaten pressured to hand over the shirt to two bikers at a local bar, the school received a request to collect all the remaining shirts and forfeit them to the Finland chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti said Friday. The motorcycle club took offense at the use of its "Deathshead" logo, a winged, helmet-wearing skull. The organization claims a trademark on the logo registered to the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corp.
And you really don't want the H.A.M.C. offended with you.
The school promptly wet their pants agreed with the Hells Angels and is collecting the shirts from its students, admitting the biker group had a strong case.
And a lot of very large angry people
"This is clearly a stolen logo. It's just a matter of thoughtlessness on the part of the kids," deputy headmaster Eeva-Riitta Mustelin was quoted as saying, adding that the bikers did not want to go to court over the matter.
I don't think court was what they had in mind.
Posted by:Steve

#12  That bar fight would have been brutal...
Ever see "Kill Bill"?
Posted by: Anonymous3999   2004-04-03 9:31:16 PM  

#11  The Ann Coulter Op-Ed Article where I first encountered you personally. I've even posted a follow-up. You asked. I answered. We'll see.
Posted by: .com   2004-04-02 9:45:05 PM  

#10  But, in case you're unaware, you're rather often being cryptic - or disingenuous - leaving some of us to wonder if you're a legitimate contributor - or just the droll troll wasting our time.

Feel free to indicate precisely where. I make a point of being consistent in my statements and view those who are not as pond scum.

Posted by: Zenster   2004-04-02 8:51:03 PM  

#9  But, in case you're unaware, you're rather often being cryptic - or disingenuous - leaving some of us to wonder if you're a legitimate contributor - or just the droll troll wasting our time.

Hey, they don't have individual "kill file" rules for browsing weblogs (yet), but I'll just ignore you should you choose to play coy. BTW, I don't need you to agree with me any more than you care if I mirror your opinions - so we'll just play this straight up.
Posted by: .com   2004-04-02 8:34:34 PM  

#8  We're agreeing far too often, .com. This message board's buffer must have a stuck bit somewhere.

Posted by: Zenster   2004-04-02 8:27:36 PM  

#7  Ah, the rub. Were it not for free speech, perhaps these kids wouldn't hear this crap and aspire to live it out... then, perhaps, they might have other interests which actually prepare them for "melting" and assimilating into the economies of their native countries. Spouting "wh'sup?" usually acts as a serious damper on the interview process, unless it's to run the deep-fryers.

A lot of "perhaps" - I know. But every young thug is potentially a productive citizen... if the possibilites can break through the inanely barbaric static that passes for youth culture. There is nothing more idiotic, IMHO, than watching some little white twinkie, such as Eminem, pretending to have a clue about being tough or down and out - emulated by a crowd of equally clueless twinkettes all sporting spastic hand gestures. In my youth, I practiced real thuggery on such succulent little 'tards. Lunch money, yumm. Yet I "ended" my programming career by paying max SocSec for the last 17 years.
Posted by: .com   2004-04-02 7:58:13 PM  

#6  As they do with "Gansta" rappers and Hip-hop stars gunning each other down?

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Absolutely! I view it as some sort of homebrew preemptive capital punishment for budding class A felons.

Posted by: Zenster   2004-04-02 7:42:30 PM  

#5  ...encouraging high schoolers to glorify or masquerade as a bunch of violent hopped up biker thugs might not have been the best decision.

Yeah, that decision kinda failed the Spock Logic Test...
Posted by: Raj   2004-04-02 7:22:55 PM  

#4  As they do with "Gansta" rappers and Hip-hop stars gunning each other down?
Posted by: .com (Abu Puppus Doggus)   2004-04-02 7:11:09 PM  

#3  More than anything, I'm curious about whether anyone will have the wisdom to perceive that encouraging high schoolers to glorify or masquerade as a bunch of violent hopped up biker thugs might not have been the best decision.

Posted by: Zenster   2004-04-02 7:05:48 PM  

#2  I'm sure Sonny Barger would say, "Hey, no sweat. Let bygones be bygones." right after he gutted a few of the pretenders. This is yet another "Cause -> Effect" episode.
Posted by: .com   2004-04-02 5:11:21 PM  

#1  Not to worry the Danish Banditos will win.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-04-02 5:04:41 PM  

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