Well, I found a place nearby that serves something besides pizza, so I thought I would try it. It is a pub.  While I was there I met two women (I will post their pictures when I figure out how).  The told me that Finnland is actually very dangerous. Petty larceny is super common and a bicycle has near certainty of being stolen.  The thing that worried them was sexual harrasment and rape.  They said that last year three women were raped by gangs of strangers in parks in Oulu. 

They said “we hear that 1 out of 100 people in the US is in jail,” I had not heard that, but I saw it this morning in the latest Pew survey.  At first I was embarrased by it but, oddly, that was not their point. They told me that in Finland people are rarely put in prison. They were especially concerned aabout rapists and told me currently there was a petition being signed asking the government for stronger penalties for rapists.  They told me (and I checked with a couple of other people about this and got the same answer) that self defense is not OK in Finland.  The story I was told was of a woman who poked the eye of someone that was raping her and got in serioius trouble while the rapist was treated well.  The both said they loved the US system where if someone comes into your house and credibly threatens to harm you, you can blow their head off.  They said there was no self-defense in Finland. Thus, and one said she doubly locks the door to her third story balcolny. 

In addition, they said that locking doors at the university, landery rooms and so on is a very good because Finland is swarming with theves.  I see college students, professors and business people, but I am learning that there is a wealfare class, sometimes heavily addicted to alcohol and they do anything to get by.

 We talked some about marijuana and its quasi legality in so many places these days. They said that it was very rare (as far as they knew) and very frowned on.