The Copenhagen Gazette, Dec. 30th 2002 Our Scandinavien correspondant has just reported a recent case of a miniblind attack in Copenhagen. The madness has apparently spread, this time as far North as Denmark. The attacker, an orange coloured male known as Mr. F was spotted and caught at the scene of the crime before any serious damage was done. This took place in broad daylight! However, he quicky fled into the darkness of his sleeping quarters and hid under a bed.

In this case Mr. F was very lucky, as he had got his whole head tangled in the string hanging on one side of the blinds and could easily have strangled himself!

In the process of establishing the motivation for Mr. F's behaviour, we presume that it could be a lack of appropriate activities over the Christmas season and due to the arrival of the cold season in Denmark at this time of year, causing a dearth of flies behind the mini blinds. It has also come to our attention that Mr. F has been known to attack fictive objects behind doors, inside cupboards etc.

Investigation has been going on for the last few weeks in the residence where this occurred. The mini blinds have now been taken down and replaced with new ones (no strings attached!) during this last week.

However, the family have come up with some very good advice on this recurring problem – they suggest that people keep the string up very high and make sure there’s a good view of some trees and birds that will take the attackers’ minds off such distubing behaviour.

Although his owners got a severe shock thinking about the consequenses of this, they will rely on the subjects normal good sense to keep him out of any more trouble.

It is at the present time being investigated whether it’s possible to get Spanish blinds in Denmark, which are a lot safer, but the information so far is negative. However, our correspondant in Spain, may be able to provide us with some more info on this.