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Party Like It’s 1959

Two 20-year-old men at a party in Sweden noticed an 18-year-old woman had passed out from drinking too much. They thought it would be “fun” to take “compromising pictures” of her: they pulled down her shirt and took photos of her breasts. Other shots showed the men giving each other “high-fives” — with their own pants pulled down to expose themselves next to her. But despite the photographic evidence, the unnamed men were exonerated of sexual molestation because, the Stockholm District Court ruled, by being unconscious, the woman was not aware she was being molested. “She considers herself to have been seriously violated,” said prosecutor Gunnar Merkel. He plans to appeal the ruling. (RC/Sweden Local) ...Meanwhile, I don’t want to even think about what’s going on in coma wards in the country.