The tradition with secondary school students riding around on flatbed trucks on graduation day dates back a few decades. There used to be a very wild affair, and it can still be, but it is more regulated today. The rule is, no drinking. Which of course means that some of the students are already drunk when they get going. And that some don't follow that rule. They then ride around the neighborhood shouting screaming whistling, anything to get noticed, really. People shout back. Motorists honk their horns. All in good fun. My photos are from a few different places. I snapped the top photo in Handen. The second one is a little different. Some students born in other countries often bring a flag from their native country with them, and that made for a silly discussion in social media this year, as some people say that you should only ever use the Swedish flag. I took the third photo near the Royal Palace, where a group of secondary school students were celebrating in style on an old ferry. Oh, and two of these photos were taken from the bike, while waiting at a stop light. The last one at Medborgarplatsen.
5 comments:
Great shooting Stefan. Pitty our schools don't do that.
Happy days for those students.
That is a fun tradition!
Young people know how to party!
There's an event held here in the fall that requires regulations among university students. It's a raucous crosstown football game called the Panda Game. I've always avoided it.
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