Elite Swedish soldiers blow up wrong house!

Bob the Seducer

A Swedish strike force has accidentally blown up the wrong house during its military drills.

The K3 division launched an attack on a civilian holiday home 750 feet from its intended target in Röjdåfors, the Daily Mail reports.

The owner of the property told a local radio station: "It's a trip to Ikea for me now."

K3's public relations officer Philip Simon said: "I think we've already cleaned up after ourselves. And we have, of course, contacted the owner. There's no hard feeling between us."

The Swedish military website describes the Life Regiment Hussar K3 as consisting of "light, highly mobile units with substantial strike power" and "long experience in the area of intelligence".

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/a180005/swedish-strike-force-blows-up-wrong-house.html

I guess that's why we don't do training exercises like that here!

Poor Uncle Tom

Mandatory training to become a chef for the muppet show.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbs64GvGgPU&NR=1

MrMatisse

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Mandatory training to become a chef for the muppet show.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbs64GvGgPU&NR=1

Bet they were hot though.

minidazzler

Bob the Seducer wrote: »

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/a180005/swedish-strike-force-blows-up-wrong-house.html

I guess that's why we don't do training exercises like that here!

Who says it's not:D

Riddle101

The Swedish military website describes the Life Regiment Hussar K3 as consisting of "light, highly mobile units with substantial strike power" and "long experience in the area of intelligence".

lol at the irony of them saying they have a long experience in the area of intelligence.

Anyway if this happened in the United States Army, you can be sure the the media would be a lot more harsher and would be condemning them for their acts. But because it's Sweden, it's just a simple accident:rolleyes:

Cunny-Funt

Thats cause when America does it there's usually people inside the house they accidentally blew up.....

Poor Uncle Tom

They thought there was an ABBA revivalist meeting going on in the house.....

Jesus Juice

Didnt Irish Rangers train with these?

citizen_p

damm IKEA is getting better advertisments all the time

Corkfeen

Ikea should make an ad out of it. Was a Mr Bush in charge of this strike force by any chance?

minidazzler

Corkfeen wrote: »

Ikea should make an ad out of it. Was a Mr Bush in charge of this strike force by any chance?

Obviously not. He is not even president anymore? How can you ask such a question, it makes no sense. And aside from that, he has never been in charge of a "strike force" as you call them. Anyone can Bungle an op. They probably just made the mistake of giving the map to a member of the commishioned ranks.

Corkfeen

minidazzler wrote: »

Obviously not. He is not even president anymore? How can you ask such a question, it makes no sense. And aside from that, he has never been in charge of a "strike force" as you call them. Anyone can Bungle an op. They probably just made the mistake of giving the map to a member of the commishioned ranks.

It was just sarcasm, relax. I realise that george bush has no jurisdiction anywhere.:D It wasn't a genuine question.

CrazyRabbit

Can we invite them over to blow up a house 750 feet from the Dail?

biko

More from Dailymail

An elite Swedish military unit has been left red-faced after blowing up the wrong house on a training exercise.

The K3 force, who regard themselves a the SAS of Scandinavia, virtually destroyed a holiday home 750 feet away from their intended target.

The owner of the holiday home returned to find it a smoking ruin, with windows and doorframes blown out, scorch marks on all the walls and most of the furniture destroyed.

'It's a trip to Ikea for me now,' he told a local radio station.

It is unclear what caused the error, but the unit did carry out a clean-up of the house.

The blunder happened during a training exercise at Röjdåfors, in central Sweden. The K3 soldiers, members of the Life Regiment Hussars, are billed on their website as 'an airborne battalion and an intelligence battalion'.

It states: 'The airborne battalion is a rapid response unit with high mobility that enables the unit to be first on the scene of a mission.

'The intelligence battalion is able, through the use of advanced technology, to control and guide attacks by aircraft and artillery against a wide range of targets.'

The aim of the exercise was to capture a house using small arms and artillery.

Journalist Stig-Börje Axelsson said: 'It is hugely embarrassing for them. The homeowner returned to find all his windows and doors gone.

'It's a pretty wild area. I mean the houses are not close together.

'I imagine there is some serious a***-kicking going on now.'

Philip Simon, K3's public relations officer, said: 'I think we've already cleaned up after ourselves. And we have, of course, contacted the owner.

'There's no hard feeling between us.'

He refused to say what caused the error.

Lirange

There's no hard feeling between us

Typical Swedes.

It used to be a common trick in West Germany in the 60's when the Army (British or American) were on exercise to train in the countryside, the local farmers would allow them onto their land, say that the old barn (or whatever) was of no use.

After the training was over, the farmers used to claim off the Government for the "willfull" destruction of their property.

jarmstrong001

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_gkyLl9h0

Overheal

Sweden: F*CK YEAH!