Swedish matriarchy strikes again.

[alfieb]

http://www.theweek.co.uk/europe/5988...being-too-buff

Police in Malmö arrested a man after approaching him because his muscular physique led them to suspect steroid use.

They interviewed the man in the street, but their suspicions grew when he was reluctant to answer their questions.

After they obtained a warrant to search his home, they discovered over 20,000 pills and vials of performance enhancing drugs, including steroids.

He told police that the drugs were for personal use and denied that he was a dealer, but "150,000 kronor ($21,000) in cash and packaging materials in the apartment led the court to believe otherwise", The Swedish news site Local News reports.

Text messages about drug deals strengthened the case against him and he was sentenced to 21 months in jail. A woman who shared his apartment denied all knowledge of the drugs but was also found guilty and sentenced to a year and a half in prison.

Earlier this year, after a similar incident, the Swedish Justice Ombudsman warned police that "big muscles are not adequate grounds for arrest".

If a man is too muscular, let's throw him in jail and search his house.

[safinator]

That's why people should stay natty

[Hithaeglir]

Where's the matriarchy in this?

He was obviously dealing illegal drugs.That's the point of the case.

[Óttar]

Where's the matriarchy in this?

He was obviously dealing illegal drugs.That's the point of the case.

The use of the word 'matriarchy' is mere trolling. But I find it ludicrous that a man's physique constitutes probable cause. This is an example of the gross overstepping of state power into the lives of its private citizens. Ridiculous.

[alfieb]

The use of the word 'matriarchy' is mere trolling. But I find it ludicrous that a man's physique constitutes probable cause. This is an example of the gross overstepping of state power into the lives of its private citizens. Ridiculous.

Precisely.

He was arrested for not fitting into the template for what the police determined a man is supposed to look like. Namely, he was too muscular.

This would not happen in a country that has been less emasculated than Sweden has.

[Dandelion]

Getting juiced up gives you the muscles, but it also shrinks your balls.

[Leon_C]

If the police had been wrong and the man's time was wasted by the police searching his place, I'd take this more seriously.

If a man is too muscular, let's throw him in jail and search his house.

*let's search his house, and then if he is proven guilty, throw him in jail, I agree it's an invasion of privacy, but I think there are far better examples of the "matriarchy" than this.