Swedish bachelor party goes amazingly wrong

One for the record books.

Miles Klee

Updated on May 31 2021 5:07 am CDT

Ah, the bachelor party: a man’s final chance to revel in his manly freedom by drinking to excess, putting on a panda costume, running around clutching a live chicken, and setting himself on fire.

Or that’s how they seem to do it in Sweden, at least? Honestly, foreign traditions are so weird.

We hope the groom-to-be wasn’t too badly burned in the moments before he thought to charge into that nearby lake, but the lecture he gets from his fiancée is bound to be far worse.

Photo by Chris Ford/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

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Miles Klee

Miles Klee is a novelist and web culture reporter. The former editor of the Daily Dot’s Unclick section, Klee’s essays, satire, and fiction have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Vanity Fair, 3:AM, Salon, the Awl, the New York Observer, the Millions, and the Village Voice. He’s the author of two odd books of fiction, ‘Ivyland’ and ‘True False.’