VICE FASHION - COP ENCOUNTERS
PHOTOGRAPHER Mona Ødegård/gerrard.no
STYLIST Elin Sirevåg Skeie
COORDINATION Martin Andersen
TEXT Olav Brekke Mathisen
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| Christian, 23: Once there was a fire in my building, so I grabbed my very nice camera and started taking photos. It never occurred to me that a civilian dude standing outside a burning building taking pictures fits the police profile for a crazy arsonist. The police people sniffed my clothes and everything. I was allowed to go home, but minutes later seven policemen stormed my apartment. A policewoman took my gear and I had to go through a lot of hassle to get my films back. |
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| Kaja, 19: We'd been smoking like Indians all day long. I was so out of it I felt like I was coming down with an extra chromosome. The police appeared out of nowhere and, at least to me, for no apparent reason. There was a lot of screaming and shouting, flashlights in my eyes and impossible questions to answer. I freaked out when they told me I might not be able to take my exams. I was in custody for a couple of hours and then I got a ticket. Down payment is about €40 a month. |
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| Carine, 23: I used to work at a really shady café. There was definitely some serious shit going on in there, but I was just a waitress. It was my day off and I had been in the studio recording all day. On my way home I stopped by the place where I worked to use the bathroom. When I was in there the police came and raided the whole place and I was dragged out and placed into custody. It was a fairly big operation with TV cameras and lots of journalists having a frenzy with it. I wasn't even stoned. |
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| Erik, 24: My looks have always been getting me in lots of trouble with the police. Since I was like 14, cops have been mistaking me for a junkie. One time I was playing with my friends and some kids on an old tractor and one policeman thought I had been shooting up. That was insane. I don't think badly of the police though. Whenever I’m drunk I always want to hug them. |
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| Anna, 22: This story was in all the papers. I had a boyfriend from Colombia. He was driving a BMW 3 Series and had gold teeth. He was a nice guy, but he used to get pulled over all the time. I was with him on eight different occasions but they never found anything wrong. Last time it happened a police car followed us to his parents’ house and stopped us right outside their garage. It was really unnecessary. The story hit the news stations and shortly after that a new law was in place to prevent shit like that. |
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Nils, 25: When Miriam from Fox ‘n’ Wolf and I had our big moving out party things got out of hand and somebody called the police. The party was crazy with people all smeared with ketchup. It looked like a scene from a horror movie. The police closed down the party and everybody had to go. The ketchup people fell asleep and stank up my apartment.
More on Nils’s band Snuten here. |
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| Janna, 21: I was downtown munching on a kebab when these incredibly rude fuckers from Somalia came up to me and my friend and started badgering us, giving us racial shit. They told me my mother was a whore, WTF? I was 16 and got stunned at first, but then I grabbed one of them by the ears, dragged him out in the street and punched him in the face. The police showed up and I flipped the story on them, saying my mother had told me not to come to this part of town and so on. I showed my ID and the fuckers from Somalia got canned. |
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| Helga, 24: My friend Siw and I wanted to hook up with some nasty boys from the other side of town. We were really young and didn't even know how to get there. Somehow my mother found out that we had gone on an east side safari. She called the police and basically told them to find her daughter or else she would come down to the station and make a bloody scene. The cops had us picked up in like twenty minutes. They were really cool and let us ride with the sirens and strobe lights on and everything. |
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