Michael Boatwright, a 61-year-old Navy veteran, was found unconscious in a Palm Springs Motel 6 with five tennis rackets and no memory of being Michael Boatwright. When he woke up in a hospital a few days later, he insisted that his name was Johan Ek, he lived in Sweden, he didn't know shit about tennis rackets, and… Read… 8/23/13 6:20pm 8/23/13 6:20pm

Swedish self-confessed serial killer Sture Bergwall has been acquitted after a re-trial. After spending 20 years in a high-security psychiatric facility, it's now thought that he invented the dozens of false murders, rapes, and cannibalism that he confessed to committing as "Thomas Quick." Go read GQ's long, excellent… Discuss… 8/10/13 4:15pm 8/10/13 4:15pm

What's a guy to do in the summer when his company bans shorts? Well, if you're a Swedish train driver, the answer is to wear skirts instead. Read on Gawker 6/09/13 1:00pm 6/09/13 1:00pm

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - JUNE 06: (L-R) Queen Silvia of Sweden, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Prince Daniel of Sweden attend the National Day Celebrations at Skansen on June 6, 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) Discuss… 6/06/13 9:45pm 6/06/13 9:45pm

Get outta town with your old ass, Veronica Mars — Sweden's Blue Dragons detektivebyrå is a P.I. agency by a seven-year-old and a nine-year-old. This adorable crime-solving duo's rates start at $2.50 and can go as high as $12.50, depending on the difficulty of the case. It's a pretty good bargain, especially considering … Read… 3/25/13 3:20pm 3/25/13 3:20pm

Hundreds of Swedish teens decided they were sick of being called sluts on Instagram and Facebook and took their fury offline by rioting like crazy today. Read… 12/18/12 1:40pm 12/18/12 1:40pm

Boning! Who doesn't love it? One woman in Sweden loves the sort of boning that gets you arrested, as she was apparently using human skeleton parts to have sex and then make CD's about the undiscovered joys of necrophilia. Okay, guys, we did it. We found a crazier, weirder thing than the Petraeus scandal. Who still uses … Read… 11/20/12 1:40pm 11/20/12 1:40pm

Remember all those times you were eating school lunch and saying to yourself, "This is just too good. They spoil us, they really do!" Yeah, me neither, but apparently that was the case at one Swedish school until recently. Their crafty head cook Annika Eriksson was a school lunch machine; preparing fresh and flavorful… Read… 10/08/12 10:00am 10/08/12 10:00am

Alec Baldwin married 28-year-old yoga instructor Hilaria Thompson in a New York City church today, and nothing was wrong unless you count the presence of Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn. Here's hoping Baldwin's new wife will lead him in a few sun salutations every morning to stop him from buying a one-way ticket to The… Read… 7/01/12 11:30am 7/01/12 11:30am

Ahh, humanity: you never go a day without proving just how creatively awful you can be. The human (more of a monster, really) in question here is a university professor in Stockholm who recently sliced off his wife's lower lip as punishment for her requesting a divorce. Why? Well, as a prosecutor in the case explained, … Read… 6/24/12 11:55pm 6/24/12 11:55pm

Being a zookeeper is a job not without risks, but you have to imagine that the zookeeper at the Kolmården zoo in Sweden who walked into the wolf enclosure on Sunday morning did not expect that she'd end up dead. She apparently entered the enclosure around 11am, and witnesses say the wolves quickly surrounded her and… Read… 6/18/12 9:30am 6/18/12 9:30am

KIEV, UKRAINE - JUNE 15: Olof Mellberg of Sweden is closed down by Steven Gerrard and Scott Parker of England during the UEFA EURO 2012 group D match between Sweden and England at The Olympic Stadium on June 15, 2012 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Photo by Martin Rose/Getty Images) Discuss… 6/16/12 3:15pm 6/16/12 3:15pm

Governments are usually so boring, right? (At least on the surface.) America is such a bunch of liars. American political PR is all about paving over human weirdnesses with neutered, socially acceptable "types"—Family Mans, Soccer Moms, Joes-the-Plumber—when you know in secret these dudes are pooping in diapers (sexually… Read… 6/14/12 7:00pm 6/14/12 7:00pm

I hope you spent the morning warming up your What The Everloving Hell reaction muscles, because this will require you to use all of them. It's the Swedish minister of culture cutting up a taxpayer-funded cake baked to look like a racist caricature of a black woman at the opening of an exhibit about the horrors of… Read… 4/17/12 12:15pm 4/17/12 12:15pm

A 27-year-old Swedish man who was accused last June of raping a sleeping woman has claimed that he too was asleep during the incident, citing an (unrecorded) history of somnambulism and sexsomnia in his defense. Though rare, sexsomnia is an actual medical condition whereby people do not merely have intense sex dreams — … Read… 3/25/12 2:30pm 3/25/12 2:30pm

Pippa and James Middleton, sister and brother of Kate Middleton, took part in the Vasaloppet cross-country ski marathon today in Sweden. The two skied the 56-mile course to raise money for charity, but Pippa had another reason to smile as she crossed the finish line: A mysterious stranger came running out of the crowd… Read… 3/04/12 8:45pm 3/04/12 8:45pm

Sure, there's the fantasy of a sexy nurse giving you a sponge bath, but would you actually want a hot nurse tending to you in an emergency room? Is attractiveness the number one quality you want in a nurse who's doing things like shoving a catheter up into your gentles or cleaning your gaping head wound? That's… Read… 2/22/12 10:00am 2/22/12 10:00am

The country of Sweden is known for lutfisk, stoic, tall Nordicolk who would make perfect Die Hard villains, furniture, and getting the fuck along. Now, the country's got a new face: and she's a lesbian who drives a truck for a living. Read… 1/19/12 5:20pm 1/19/12 5:20pm

A new report issued by a Swedish labor agency indicates that female managers don't reduce the pay gap between male and female employees. If not even perfect, stoic, ice cold, blond, Ikea-decorated egalitarian socialist paradise Sweden can overcome the pesky gendered pay gap, then what faint hope do we have in the land… Read… 12/20/11 5:10pm 12/20/11 5:10pm

A Swedish lingerie chain called Change has landed itself in some serious hot water for suggesting—or requiring, depending on whom you ask—that its saleswomen display their bra cup sizes on their name tags. The company claims that this practice was "designed to help customers see what size might be right for what body… Read… 11/06/11 12:05pm 11/06/11 12:05pm

If you are in Denmark, go to the store and load up on as much junk food as you can right now, because your government is about to start charging the world's first "fat tax" in an effort to keep you thinner and healthier. Don't worry this is not a tax on fat people. It's only a tax on fatty foods, which the government has … Read… 9/30/11 3:40pm 9/30/11 3:40pm