The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:20:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 In Norway, The Cookie Crumbles http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/in-norway-the-cookie-crumbles http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/in-norway-the-cookie-crumbles#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:20:16 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/in-norway-the-cookie-crumbles Never forget"The people who did this must be full of gingerbread dust. They will smell a long way."
-Norwegian police inspector Erik Sveaas discusses the vandals who destroyed the town of Bergen's 650-house gingerbread cookie village. The plunderers attacked the village-supposedly the world's largest-by crushing its buildings and "topping off the ruins with paint and fire extinguisher foam."

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-Norwegian police inspector Erik Sveaas discusses the vandals who destroyed the town of Bergen's 650-house gingerbread cookie village. The plunderers attacked the village-supposedly the world's largest-by crushing its buildings and "topping off the ruins with paint and fire extinguisher foam."

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