Swedish beard club mistaken for ISIS members

 By 
Stan Schroeder
 on 
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Sometimes, sporting a beard can put you in a hairy situation.

A group of beard lovers from Sweden learned that the hard way Saturday, when someone called the cops on them, claiming they saw 30 terrorists waving an ISIS flag.

In fact, it was a gathering of Bearded Villains, a self-described "brotherhood of elite bearded men from all over the world." The group was having a photoshoot at the Brahehus Castle ruin, located in the province of Småland, Sweden, but apparently their long beards and the group's black flag were enough for someone to mistake them for terrorists.

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Group member Andreas Fransson described the incident on his Facebook page.

"We had a good laugh with the cops, who had to respond to the call, but quickly saw that we weren't terrorists, out in the middle of nowhere, dressed in formal wear, hugging and laughing," wrote Fransson.

This is not the first such incident in Sweden; in February, Swedish police raided an apartment of a couple after mistaking birthday balloons, which said "21," for ISIS propaganda.

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