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Municipality buys Mouse Trap strip joint

After a long campaign to evict a strip joint from Barnarp in the south of Sweden the local municipality has stepped in, buying the property for 3 million Swedish kronor ($470,000).

Municipality buys Mouse Trap strip joint

Barnarnp residents have tried to get rid of Café Musfällan, or Mousetrap Café, for years, writing letters of complaint to the municipality and organizing protests and petitions. But to no avail.

According to the Jönköping municipal commissioners Ann-Mari Nilsson of the Center Party and Mats Green of the Moderate Party, not a week has gone by since the joint opened without neighbours complaining about noise, littering, harassment and drunken behaviour at the club.

In November the club changed its name from Heaven to Mousetrap Café, adding the strap line “where we knead the buns together”.

Just a month before the name change, police and tax authorities had raided the premises after suspecting that the tenant was putting on striptease shows without a permit.

“It has been a great inconvenience for residents in Barnarp,” said Green.

Since the municipality did not own the property it was not legally able to evict the club. So in the end local officials contacted the owner who agreed to evict the tenant.

A sales contract was signed on Friday. The municipality forked out 3.1 million to rid Barnarp of strippers.

Nilsson denies accusations that the municipality was gripped by a moral panic.

“When residents keep contacting us to tell us of their devastation and fear – well if you want to call that a moral panic, that’s fine by me,” she told local newspaper NU.

The municipality has not yet decided what to use its new property for.

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FLOOD

Downpour floods roads, blocks off hospital

A heavy rainfall in central southern Sweden on Friday morning flooded a main highway and blocked off access to a local hospital.

Downpour floods roads, blocks off hospital

“There is truly a lot of water, there are several tens of centimetres in some places,” Henrik Dovrén of the Jönköping emergency services told the Aftonbladet newspaper.

The rising water levels blocked off access to the Jönköping Hospital, and emergency cases have had to be forwarded to other hospitals in Eksjö and Värnamo.

It also prevented access to several large stores in the area, including an Ikea and a Biltema, with sewage water gushing up into the stores, reported the local Jönköpings Posten newspaper.

Emergency workers are currently busy pumping water from the affected shopping centres and buildings.

“We have a number of incidents that we are working on simultaneously,” Dovrén told Aftonbladet.

Over 400 households in the area have lost electricity. A local hotel, the Jönköping Hotell, reported that its cellar had flooded.

Meanwhile, the E4 motorway is covered in water and traffic was at a standstill in the later hours of Friday morning.

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