Finland in the headlines again.... :(

At lest nine students killed in a school-shooting at a vocational school not far from here. BBC news
Kauhajoki is only some 55 miles to the southeast from here were we live which makes it more frightening to me as a teenager parent than did the school-shooting in Jokela last year.
This is not the crowded urban district of the southern Finland or USA but a peacful rural area.
Something is definitely really wrong with the way we treat our youth nowadays. It's a fact that mental healthcare, especially for younger people, has been run down the last few years now when we are scrapping the idea of being a Nordic-type welfare country where the healthcare and education is run by the society.
Outsourcing, privatisation and plain scrapping of resources for healthcare and education is slowly taking its' toll...
And the politicians and the media are already blaming the internet.
What this gunman may have posted on the web is not the fault of internet itself, it is just another cry for help...

Light a candle for the poor souls tonite.


Update at 6 PM:

The number of victims is now raised to 10 and the shooter died in hospital later today, that makes the death toll 11. Three injured.
I searched the YouTube for "Kauhajoki" immediately when I heard of this shooting a while after 11 AM today and I found two videos of a guy handling and shooting with a Walther PP 22 but I did not mention it here earlier.
Now it is confirmed by the police that this guy on the videos is the shooter. The same videos have been rolling on the TV-news since I arrived at home.

The most cruel fact is that the shooter was interrogated by the police as late as yesterday when they got reports regarding the videos on the YouTube that were uploaded last Friday!
The police did not find anything alarming in the guys behavior and the licence for the weapon was not withdrawn and the weapon was not confiscated...
The policeman responsible for this action yesterday cannot be reached today according to the police force and local news.

Anniversaries, birthdays and PETE

Today, 18 years ago on a sunny and warm day Ingela and I were married! Yesterday was Ingela's birthday. Congratulations to us!

This morning at 05:20 AM we got rudely awakened by PETE....
No, not mister Townshend but the paramedics and rescue helicopter serving this area.
It was flying back and forth and circulating at approx 100 ft. above the area where we live for about 3 hours.
It literally rattled the tiles on our roof and every cup and plate in our cupboards.
Maybe some poor guy have got lost in the woods surrounding our place or maybe some criminal from the county jail is on the run...
Hope not.
By the way they manouvered back and forth I could tell that they were using their infrared (thermovision) camera to search for somebody lost/hiding.



The photo is nicked ftrom PETE:s homepage:
http://www.pelastushelikopteri-pete.fi/Default.aspx?id=488501
PETE is an acronym of some finnish words for rescue activities &c.

Update at 1:50 PM
As you can see from the comment Ingela made they were searching for a 82 year old man who had got lost last night. He was found close to his home at around nine o'clock AM today and brought to hospital.