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if you didnt, check it out on iplayer. a truely fucking bizarre story, and some truely unbelievable footage. really bloody good. me and the missus watched it earlier, we just couldnt believe what we were seeing! discuss!!!

yeah i saw that about 6 months ago, the fucking women got back up, it was like something out of the terminator :eek:

Just found this and 10 seconds in i'm gripped already!

I must admit, my interest was heightened when saw the term "Mad Female Swedish Identical Twins" in the synopsis, the last thing I saw that mentioned such a couplet made for some very interesting viewing. Needless to say I've not gone near any giant gherkins since.

Seriously though, the twin that was in custody was a very scary looking woman, the bit about her running away covered in blood whilst hitting her own head with a lump hammer was particularly weird, fair play to the guy who tackled her, I wouldve stayed well clear..

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Amazing. I saw the original programme and couldn't believe it. I knew there had to be a pretty amazing story to those two and was really pissed off when it didn't give any answers at all. It's obvious now why they couldn't say too much. I know it's easy to be wise in hindsight but it's pretty unsatisfactory that she was let out after a couple of days and equally unsatisfactory that the physyco bitch is going to be out of prison next year.

Anyone who has not seen this or the original programme, just watch it. It is fucking amazing.l

I love that


Nice one Al

i've just watched the programme.
fucking insane on so many levels

Saw the original programme last year. Still shocked me watching the both of them throwing themselves into oncoming traffic even though I knew it was coming.

I saw the original programme and then seem to remember reading about her in the paper doing something else?  Is that what you're talking about OST?

Missed this. What programme was it? Might be on iplayer.

Yes, this was the follow up to that. It gives you a lot more of their story (although there's a lot more I'd still like to know) They could not say much at the time for legal reasons (which will become obvious when you watch the programme)

When you saw the original programme you would have probably thought, like I did, that those crazy bitches were on some serious hallucenaganic (sp?) drugs. There is no fucking way they would have been doing what they were doing otherwise. But apparently they had absolutely zero drugs or alcholol in their system.

It is on i-Player..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tf1r4/Madness_in_the_Fast_Lane/


You HAVE to watch this. It is just unbelievable, you couln't make it up. Seriously.

I watched this too... Not normally bothered by these type of things but was incredible to watch.

If those two physco bitches ever get together again (which I guess they will, being twins) bad stuff if going to happen. FACT!

fuck me. i've seen the first 4 minutes and this is mental

"Mental" being the right word - if they'd been dealt with properly as mental health (rather than criminal) cases, the bloke might never have been stabbed. Awful programme though, car crash TV at its worst (literally). Surely this is the sort of crap the BBC should be leaving to Channel 5?

One word "mentalists". Your right about the programme pauld, very channel 5 but still worth watching for the crazy motorway part

What the fuck?!

Watched this earlier. It is probably the most weird thing I've ever seen on TV. The bit at the start where they're just jumping into traffic is the most fucked up bit obviously.

I agree it's unusual for the BBC to broadcast this kind of programme. It's a very strange series of events though and I don't think there's anything wrong with making a TV programme about it. A lot of people seem to have found it interesting. It's in the list of most popular stuff on iplayer.

A lot of people buy the Sun and find Heat interesting. Doesn't stop them being drivel though.

I think what happened with those sisters was a bit more strange and interesting than a celebrity wedding or knowing who has put on a little bit of weight.

Do you think it was a waste of license payers money? I doubt it cost much to make. It was mostly cctv footage and interviews with witnesses.

three in a bed madness - I think I want it

This is a rare occasion where I have to strongly disagree with you Mr D. I have to say I find this story absolutely fascinating and it made for great TV.

Firstly, on the subject of the programme itself. This was originally part of the Traffic Cops series and was originally shown by the BBC a couple of years ago. I’ve not watched every episode but I’ve seen a few and have always found them to be compulsive viewing. They are well made, informative and not at all sensationalised. They are infinitely better than the ‘Speeding Nutter Psychos’ and ‘When Good Drivers Go Nuts’ rubbish regularly shown by Channel 5, Sky, Bravo, Living etc etc etc etc (and I do sometimes watch those as well and I will concede they are utter garbage)

I did happen to see the original episode with the two Swedish…well…let’s see….they can only be described as nut jobs and I couldn’t believe my eyes. However the programme left more questions than it answered so I was really interested to see that they had made a one-off follow up and can see now of course why there was a limit to how much they could say about the women involved.

Secondly, the story itself is so completely and utterly unique. Right from when they got the National Express coach from Liverpool to London (and to this day no one knows why they were headed to London) to the incredible behaviour on the motorway (including one being run over by an HGV!) which would have been amazing even if they had been on the worst LSD trip ever but even more so given that they had no trace of alcohol or drugs in their system to the murder of a totally innocent man trying to help one of them, to the jumping off a forty foot bridge to the theories of the Physiatrists employed by the Defence and Prosecution. This in itself sets itself totally apart from the Channel 5/Sky bilge. We’re not talking about a few pissed up/stoned kids running around in the road throwing stones at cars or a few pissed up Brits abroad. It’s a totally unique story. One that, if they are honest, even medical experts are at a loss to explain.

It also raises a couple of very relevant issues (not something that ‘Speeding Nutter Psychos’ or ‘When Good Drivers Go Nuts’ EVER do) in that, as has already been alluded to, you have to question how the woman who killed the bloke was let out so early and so easily. She was examined, apparently by four different medical people who all said she was ok but none of them saw the footage of what happened on the M6. That should have been enough for her to be placed in a secure environment where she could be assessed. Then there is the issue of the psychiatrists’ findings that she had been mad at the time of the killing and now, no longer was. Meaning that the Judge could not have her detained indefinitely and pretty much had no choice but to jail her for only 5 years (she’ll be out next year)

This in turn raises the philosophical issue of ‘can you be mad at one point in time, and not mad at some point further on in time’ That’s quite badly worded but anyway…to me, madness can’t leave you like a physical condition such as a cold or flu. It will bury itself in your sub conscious but will always be there and may or may not manifest itself again at some point in the future.

Anywhoo…I’ve probably gone on a bit here but this is just something that really captured my interest and the programme which portrayed it does not deserve to get lumped together with the bilge they show on C5 and should certainly not get mentioned in the same breath as The Sun or Heat Magazine.

but that is the whole defintion of madness ......
it's there ....
and then it's gone !!!!

it all boils down to tolerance - I'm surprised the DM hasn't given it large on bloody loony Swedes

the loon ran over by the hgv is the most lucky person to be alive on the planet.(actually considering her sis jumped off a bridge and across a motorway 3 times i'm not sure)anyway....
there is a small gap between the cab itself and the legs of the trailer.somehow she got between that gap.then she has avoided the tyres completely as the trailer has passed over her.i'm guessing the bar at the back clattered her breaking her legs.
how she survived that and still kicked off is unbelievable.

They are fucking mental. Put them down.

here's their younger brother in action...

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7598674.stm

I didn't bother watching it all. Where are they know?  ???

just watch it you lazy cunt

One minute in, this looks truly bizarre, wondering if this is going to be a good idea.

Oh my word.  I've just watched this on I player.  Having seen the original Motorway Cops episode, you were left wondering 'what the fuck and why do we not know what happened next'.  This makes clear what happened next, but as OST pointed out still isn't able to give any reasons and everything about it leaves me feeling quite strange.  I think OST has covered everything that I was thinking, but this woman's actions have impacted on so many people's lives from the people involved in the original motorway incident to the innnocent man she killed and his family that are left picking up the pieces.  Aside from how the driver of the car that hit her on the motorway would have felt, it's a shame she didn't die then to be honest.  To be let out next year is an absolute farce and nobody will really know if she is a risk to anyone until something else happens.  Hopefully if it does, she will be a risk to herself and nobody else.  Absolutely awful chain of events and I can't get my head round why the sister was just discharged and allowed to relocate to Sweden without any further involvement?!

Still watching this, so apologise for not reading pevious entries,  in order to keep my suspense, but why in the heck was that girl not sectioned?????????? Throws herself infront of motorway traffic, fights teh law, seems deranged, and they let her go.....er, hang on, something not right here. If i'd been presiding, she'd have spent an indefinite time at the looney farm. Went on to kill a man........frickin' idiots!

Arriba, they only show the twin who goes under the hgv properly once, and from that she seems to go about halfway along the trailer, and her legs get run over by the first set of wheels on the trailer (hence the pancaked legs with broken and protruding bone) then send her spinning between the 2nd set. Lucky girl.

I've just had a chance to watch this. It's like a strange work of fiction and yet it's real.

What I don't understand is why the other twin isn't assessed at all. Or perhaps she was and is considered fine too. But either way it seems a little too easy for them.

What the Fuck!?

Boring...not entertaining and strangely not shocking in todays world.

oh come off it leefer.as a trucker yourself,i'm staggered by your post

Hi arriba...i saw it ages ago of course its shocking in a sense but sadly it dosn't shock me as it should.
The Tsunami videos and the Twin Towers footage....along with the Falling man documentary had me spellbound...this dosn't.

All i said was that for me its boring and didn't shock me...but that's not to say it isn't good TV....just not my cuppa tea.

Did you see the latter one? A 'what they did next' type thing?