Plot Against Pippi's Parrot Foiled:
An elite EU assassination squad was arrested yesterday on attempted abduction and murder charges. The victim: Pippi Långstrump's (Longstocking's) parrot Rosalinda. Fortunately enough, Ms Långstrump herself (who possesses superpowers) was present to disarm the assassins (with considerable ease, one might add). The main reason the EU was furious at Rosalinda was that the parrot had figured in several anti-EU commercials, in one of which she shreds the EU Constitution and in another of which she dislodges droppings on the flags of all EU countries, save Sweden's. Rosalinda was unharmed by the incident and is amusing herself at Folkets Park in Malmö. The prisoners are currently on board the Hoppetossa---Ms Långstrump's father's ship--- sailing to an island in the South Sea where Ms Långstrump's father rules supreme, and where no Geneva Convention reaches.
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