Woman Photographs Swan, Finds Hand Stuck in Ice (WEIRD, w/pic)

[Fenris]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=8114693

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish woman who photographed a swan in the river outside the royal palace in Stockholm made a grim discovery when the film was developed: a hand sticking out of the ice.

Newspaper Aftonbladet said on its Web Site that Marita Larsson was walking around Stockholm's Old Town in early March and took a photo of a swan on the river as a spring thaw melted the ice.

"It was only when I came home and developed the film that I saw there was something particular about the picture. When I had it blown up I saw there was a hand sticking out of the ice," she told the newspaper.

A spokesman for Stockholm police said the hand might be that of a man who committed suicide in late January and whose body has not yet been found.

Police last week also fished various body parts of a woman, including the head and hands, out of the river, and are still trying to identify her.

[flamingyouth]

1. Those crazy Swedes.

Actually, that's really sad. :(

[Fenris]

3. It's very sad. Quite frightening, too.

:scared:

[CatWoman]

2. I understand one of the fingers was found in a bowl of Wendy's chili

;)

[Fenris]

4. ...

:spank:

Damn you for making me laugh!

[Debi]

5. Who said swans were docile creatures?

That'll teach the person for trying to pet them :mad:

[texas1928]

23. I nearly froze to death waiting on her to take the picture.

Just so I could say hi.

[Debi]

25. My hero

:scared:

[MissB]

6. m'kay. How would one not notice that?

I mean, the swan is looking right at it.

[nuxvomica]

22. See "What the Bleep Do We Know?"

The camera makes no judgements but the naked eye does.

[Lavender Brown]

7. I'm amazed that she didn't notice it at the time

:wtf:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

9. I worked my way through college as a photographer

and I can give you fifty instances of things showing up in prints that I never saw while taking the pictures.

It's a matter, I think, of concentrating on the subject, to the exclusion of everything else. This story doesn't surprise me at all.

[Lavender Brown]

12. but it's part of a human body... sticking out of a frozen river

but I do see your point. It's just... :scared:

[KurtNYC]

10. Me too

The swan is looking right at it.

[XNASA]

8. Palm Sunday?

[DS1]

11. It's the Lady of the Lake

Showed up a smidge early

[Dookus]

13. if the only evidence

is that photograph, it's certainly not conclusive that it is a hand. It could be a chunk of ice.

[Pithlet]

16. That's what I thought.

In person, it might have been obvious it was a chunk of ice, but when developed and printed on a flat piece of paper, it looked like a hand. Looking at it closely, it could be a piece of ice. It's a creepy picture, though.

[Zuni]

14. Serial killer in Stockholm?

The Green River case started when two boys found a corpse of a dead woman floating in the Green River south of Seattle in 1982

[crispini]

15. UGH!

Just ugh. Double ugh. :scared:

[ET Awful]

17. I just have to ask . . . how do they know he committed suicide in late

January if the body has not yet been found. Seems a tad presumptuous to me.

[flamingyouth]

19. Sweden has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.

It might be partly the dark climate. Or the fact that many of us are filled with a certain self-hatred... :shrug:

[Fenris]

20. Perhaps it is a bit of both

[Fenris]

18. Kick

[donheld]

21. It seems hard to miss

It's just too odd.

[MrScorpio]

24. Some people will do anything to horn in on a shot

What a ham