No never. I mostly did not grow up in the city, but outside and in the countryside. Lived in central Stockholm for about 2 years, but I can't remember that happening. I have seen them hanging from buildings of course, but never falling... Here in England where I've lived for almost 10 years, it is never cold enough.. I am sooooo homesick for REAL winters. This is my last "winter" in England. I promise you, -25 and snowstorm is BETTER than +2, rain, wind, and no sunshine.

Just read another horrible winter story. A man was very drunk.... and (apparently) lay down on a snow drift (not sure how to say this in English, I mean the pile of snow that's made by the snow plough).

Later, it snowed some more, and the snow plough came back... somehow the man, dead or alive, had ended up INSIDE the pile of snow. His body was discovered when some trucks came to transport all the snow outside of the city.

It's awful to think that he might still have been alive (i.e. not frozen to death) but too drunk to get out of the snow.
And what about the drivers of the snow plough. How come they didn't notice! Horrible story.