A Bronx man was shot and killed Thursday during a robbery over his iPhone, the NYPD said Thursday.

Electricity to a village was cut off when a Martin tried to bite through a high voltage cable.

A German police force that spent €25 million on new sporty cars found that not only was the visibility rubbish for chases - the fancy seats were so narrow the cops could not get in while wearing their guns, truncheons and other equipment. 

Amorphophallus titanum 

= Titan's Root (Titanenwurz)

after 15 years 1st time blossoming and stinking (!) like rotten fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9e8a9_46rY

A tubby thief who tried to steal a new toilet seat was caught when he was spotted by two police officers acting suspiciously in the Sanitary Department of a store in Baden.

Austrian troops who last year spectacularly failed to stop an invasion of storks that forced a military air show into retreat have this year called in a secret weapon – Falcons.

(...)Now detectives say that the two men who had been sent inside to clean the oven had actually finished the job and left before returning a second time without informing colleagues. (...)

The German city of Braunschweig has a new benefactor. An anonymous donor has been stuffing envelopes filled with 10,000 euros in cash into the mailboxes of charitable organizations. His latest contribution was an anomaly. A local hospice found the money under its doormat.

MONTREAL – A $30 tongue piercing has cost a Montreal tattoo shop $3,500.

A Court of Quebec judge recently ruled that the owner of a tattoo shop and his employee must pay the father of a 13-year-old girl whose tongue they pierced.

 

The well-known face of Mohammed Atta, one of the lynchpins of the 9/11 attacks, reportedly appeared in a promotion on Facebook selling car insurance Friday.

Police have launched an investigation after officers shot dead a man who was throwing bottles out of the window of his flat in a small town near Frankfurt.

A man had to be rescued from the frozen River Elbe in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday after his canoeing trip in sub-zero temperatures turned out not to be such a good idea.

Four young car thieves in the western German state of Saarland notified the police on Sunday night after they stumbled on the corpse of a small baby in the boot of a car they were breaking into.

One of the Netherlands’ most infamous criminals, Willem Holleeder, has been released from prison, the justice ministry has confirmed.

The dismembered, partially cooked corpse of a missing man has been found in a Berlin apartment, where prosecutors believe he was killed after a sex game spiralled out of control.

A state government in Germany intends launching legal proceedings against a Dutch website for publication of an excerpt from Adolf Hitler’s infamous book, Mein Kampf. The Finance Ministry of Bavaria holds the copyright on the book and says website Nieuws-wo2.tk is in violation of copyright laws.

A sadistic pimp not only beat the women he forced into prostitution – he had turned his genitalia into a weapon with metal implants and used it to hurt them further, a court in Frankfurt has heard (...)

Hazel Jones always wondered why she suffered from terrible cramps and heavy periods during puberty. But it wasn't until she turned 18 that she was given her astonishing diagnosis - she had two vaginas.

The businessman who shot dead a prosecutor in court in Bavaria, would have walked out a free man had he not fired a gun at the judge and then turned on the prosecutor (...)

A 23-year-old man from Koekelare in West Flanders has been sentenced to 12 years in gaol for a series of traffic offences.

Actions speak louder than words. Shoplifting Indian style

An Indian woman is able to carry away a case of beer under her skirt. 

Almost unbelievable that she had the legs' power of keeping it aloft.

I rather think she used an assisting gadget.  

German maritime archaeologists claimed to have found a urinal used by Kaiser Wilhelm II lying on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

 

A four-year-old in Cologne took it upon himself to leave his home on Saturday morning at 6 a.m. and go alone to his kindergarten. 

Other police stations have offered the lure of free TVs to nab suspects, but British police appealed to suspects' thirsty sides, offering free beer ...

01/10/11 - A humpback whale has been spotted off the Belgian coast. It is assumed that the images were recorded close to the Thornton area, some 25 kilometres off the Belgian mainland. It's probably a young whale. Adults can grow to a length of 15 metres and a weight of 30 tons. Humpbacks live across the world, but it's very rare to spot them in the North Sea.

EDMONTON - A city restaurant owner says a set of unique urinals are here to stay, despite a complaint that they are “degrading to women.”

See also:

http://www.pimpettes.de/index.php/2009/07/08/rote-lippen-soll-man-besudeln/

http://www.bathroom-mania.com/en/enhome/enfshome.html

Almost two dozen people were travelling through Austria in a minivan registered for a maximum of five people

A drinks maker has been awarded a trademark for a German 'f-word' obscenity after a two-year legal fight for an alcoholic beverage using the word.

Sweden’s wildlife can be hard to find at the best of times, but luckily, if it's an elk you want to see, a safari park near Stockholm promises to get you so close you might even get a smooch, Oliver Gee discovers...

A 56-year-old Austrian is recovering after plunging down a 300-metre cliff in the Swiss mountains

TORONTO - A life-saving device was turned into a deadly projectile when it became airborne on a highway west of Toronto last week.

Here's a new twist to that old man-bites-dog story.

A GROUP of flatmates eating dinner together had a shock when they found a live frog in their salad.

A Styrian triathlete has been fined nearly 200 Euros for speeding

 (while riding his high tech bike).

The Austrian guy, Niko Alm (35), allegedly devotee of a 'religous' movement, called "Pastafarianism" was successful in convincing the Vienna traffic authority to express his 'belief' by putting on a noodle cullender for a driver's license picture.  

How not to DIY!

A 58 y/o businessman for construction materials forgot to close the sunroof of his 7 y/o Audi A8. After a T-storm downpour, he tried to dry his car, worth about €15k or $22k, with a 2.000 W blow-dryer. Feeling a sudden urge for the bathroom, he left the car unattended for allegedly 10 minutes. 

Result: The Audi went up in flames.    

The two-year-old son of an Italian family visiting a church in Spitz was hit by the 200 pound holy water cauldron and was seriously injured.

WINNIPEG - A 22-year-old man is charged, accused of firing a sawed-off shotgun after two Winnipeg restaurant employees declined to sell him a cigarette.

An Indian man who went into hospital with stomach pains had to have a hysterectomy when doctors found he had a uterus.

Two employees at a prestigious Paris law firm plan to go to an employment tribunal after claiming they were let go for polishing off the remains of uneaten office lunch...

Officials in Bonn are counting pennies after raiding a woman thought to have hoarded around €40,000 in small-denomination coins she earned looking after public toilets – and failed to declare to the tax office.

Animal rights activists are racing to try to find an escaped cow before hunters do - after Bavarian authorities issued an order to get her dead or alive.

Three Swiss soldiers remain in the hospital, while another was discharged, after an explosives accident during training in the canton of St. Gallen yesterday.

Fare dodgers in Germany are using social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to warn fellow travellers of the presence of public transport inspectors on buses and trains.

This year, female visitors at Oktoberfest will be offered green armbands on which to put their contact information and names. Organizers of the initiative hope it will help young women to find their way back to where they are staying, and in the process cut down on the annual number of sexual assaults.

THREE people who went missing on a drunken late-night visit to the Paris catacombs have been rescued by police after spending two days lost underground.

Motorists taking a bathroom break at a rest stop in Brandenburg might not get much privacy these days. Thieves made off with 22 stainless-steel toilet stall doors within a few days and, up to now, police are clueless. 

SEOUL - South Korean scientists said on Wednesday they have created a glowing dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, Yonhap news agency reported.

OTTAWA -- Ottawa runners: Beware angry birds...

Vandals broke into a Catholic church in North Rhine-Westphalia and peed into the bowl of holy water, the police announced on Thursday

A MUM died after flying to Poland for a cut-price £4,800 boob job and tummy tuck, an inquest heard.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3710297/Mum-Freda-Heath-dies-after-cut-price-boob-job-in-Poland.html#ixzz1SvRPFrrK

Media reports have emerged about a British company that provides access for tourists to use Swiss shooting ranges to fire machine guns in a secret military facility.

(with audio link) 

A burglar who gorged on a typical Austrian delicacy was struck down with pepper spray by a landlord ...

Two young girls escaped from a fire in their home by jumping out of the window – and safely onto a trampoline placed there by quick-thinking neighbours, police in Bavaria said over the weekend.

Rising commodity prices have prompted thieves to target copper cables and other metal parts used by railways, forcing interruptions in train service in Germany and other European countries. Now, new invisible markers may help German rail get the upper hand.

The security of Germany's new multi-million-euro spying agency headquarters might be compromised; blueprints for the building are missing, allegedly stolen. The government says it's looking for the plans, and answers.

A 52-year-old man has been jailed for failing to pick up the mess from his two Great Dane dogs

A Tyrolean landlord nearly burned his house down trying to kill a swarm of wasps.

A MAN driving under the influence of cannabis has caused nine accidents by travelling the wrong way up a motorway at speeds of up to 130kph.

After a number of Facebook-organized parties that have spun out of control, several state interior ministers are demanding tougher measures, including banning the gatherings in advance.

The pilot of a zeppelin was killed and three passengers had to leap to safety when the aircraft caught fire and crashed in central Germany Sunday evening, a police spokesman said.

SION, SWITZERLAND – Drivers who had started sampling the goods at the Valais wineries Open day Friday 3 June might have wondered about the strength of the wine if they were on the A9 autoroute, where a camel and two horses were hitched to the safety bar on the median strip... 

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Police in Zurich arrested an unusual-looking drug runner Wednesday at Kloten Airport, a man disguised as a missionary, complete with flowing robes.

The Smurfs, people Stalinist and Nazi? It is the theory of a writer and researcher of the Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, in a new book to be published in early June 2011, recounts ActuaLitté. Smurf society " is an archetype of a totalitarian utopia, full of Stalinism and Nazism , "according to the author, Antoine Bunéo.

(by Google translation)

A woman driver had a lucky escape when she ended up in a pool ...

A jogger fought off a crazed, attacking deer by putting it in a headlock and scaring it off.

The Bild-title:

FELSEN AUF FAHRERSITZ

 Wegfahrsperre aus der Steinzeit

translates to: Boulder on driver's seat - Stone Age immobilizer

A Chevrolet Corvette driver told police he considered himself lucky to have been fined for speeding at 239 kilometres per hour (kph) - as he had been travelling at 270 kph shortly before he was detained.

She (43) wanted to overtake a farmer's tractor but the guy suddenly turned to the left, and they crashed.
The gal made a 10 metre flight stunt with her Opel Astra into the adjacent woods. (see picture).
Fortunately, she got no injuries - but her car will certainly go to the scrap yard.

(and) was found to be seriously drunk (...)

Well, in Haltern-on-the-lake, North Rhine-Westphalia, some savvy admin people try to rip off vehicle drivers with a simple trick.
Look at the picture.

A young politician from the socialist Left party has been busted stealing 200 rolls of toilet paper from a city hall in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, media reported Wednesday.

A Lufthansa pilot has been arrested at Frankfurt Airport after he tried to bring two deadly slingshots and hundreds of ball bearings into Germany, officials said Tuesday.

A (58 y/o Latvian) woman has been hospitalized with severe burns after setting herself on fire in front of the Reichstag parliamentary building in Berlin over the weekend.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A deer has been standing watch for several days over a female goose nesting in a city cemetery, a scene normally reserved for a children's movie.

At least eight people died Friday in a huge blaze on a motorway in eastern Germany after a freak sandstorm caused pile-ups, police said.

AN UNASSUMING semi-detached house in Swansea has become an internet sensation because it apparently looks like Adolf Hitler.

A 23-year-old Romanian faces legal consequences for driving his car into an Alpine authority official.

Investigators probing a massive fraud involving fake euro coins have raided offices and homes of Bundesbank and Lufthansa workers, according to a Thursday media report.

Yesterday worried witnesses made a tip-off to the local police, reporting that in an opposite flat an alleged smuggler of cigarettes might have his storage.
NRW State Police and Federal Customs officers raided the flat. The 'very' surprised occupant could give a plausible explanation. The heavy chain smoker, who has no drapes, has been collecting all the empty cartons in order to take them as 'blinds'. Police and customs officers had to leave quite disappointed.

German police have fined a transport truck driver for lifting weights while on the autobahn, they said Thursday. The man claimed there was no law against sculpting his body at the wheel.

The Sun :MEET Adolfish the goldfish - the family pet who looks a bowl lot like HITLER.

A Pennsylvania woman who crashed her car after burglarizing a local inn had a sizable stash of drugs and cash hidden in her vagina.

The Schleswig-Holstein Water Protection Police ('WSP') caught a Russian captain with whopping 0.223 pc (breath) alcohol yesterday, Mar 17th.
Traveling from the east to the Kiel Canal, the freighter "MEG", flag: Panama, was checked by WSP police officers who noticed an alcohol odor from the captain's breath. He was fined 4.000 euros (US-$ 5.660). The continuation of the ship's journey was prohibited.

Two broad-smiling GIs were standing on the autobahn A3 near Seligenstedt while paramedics treated a loudly nagging but still boozed crash-driver for a black eye. A teenager' s DUI with hit and run ended quite surprisingly. Two Iraq-experienced U.S. soldiers, Ryan V. (20) and John McC. (24), being in top shape, had caught the teenager (18) and his buddy (26) in the nearby woods.
(Article in German by Bild-online)

A Lower Austrian man who walked out on his quarrelling family during breakfast has been found living in a forest.

Hamburg police have released surveillance footage of a stabbing at a döner kebab shop in hope of finding the attacker. The man nearly killed the snack shop worker because he was apparently unhappy with the quality of the meat he was served.

German article by express.de (Region Cologne): "Brutale Axt-Attacke im Finanzamt"
An obviously 'intellectually challenged' citizen of Aachen, NRW, Germany, went crazy when he attacked a service-employee at the local tax authority. The 50 y/o perpetrator hit the 60 y/o 'taxman' with the stump side of the ax. The victim got severe injuries, fortunately not life-threatening. The 'madman' was arrested and transferred to a 'closed' psychiatric clinic. Cause for the rampage: allegedly unjustified tax claims from the 'IRS'.

German article by express.de:" ABSICHTLICH! Frau warf sich vor Auto von TV-Star"
A Kenian woman who had fought against her expulsion for six(!) years by faking an accident in 2005 with the German TV-star, Sam Eisenstein, who was then driving his car, and suing in Cologne local court for damages has left Germany in the meantime. Due to intentionally causing her injuries by jaywalking, her claims were dismissed. Whether the court and Sam Eisenstein's lawyer will ever collect the costs laid upon her remains a secret.

German article by Kieler Nachrichten:"Reh rammt Jogger in Kieler Wald"
There was no referee present who counted to 'ten' but it was a clear K.O. for a senior jogger, caused by a doe that ran into him. Witnesses of the unusual incident told K.N. newspaper that 'Bambi' was also slightly effected but managed 'to escape' into the nearby city forest. Paramedics were called in, and the 'knocked-out guy' had to stay a night in hospital as precautionary measure.

German article by derwesten.de:"Räuber reißt Frau Laptop aus der Hand"
A 52 y-o woman of Wanne-Eickel, NRW, had just gotten her basket with laundry and, on top, a bag (with a notebook inside) out of her car's trunk when a cyclist 'seized' the opportunity of stealing the computer right away. Although the woman managed to hold the bag's belt the male robber successfully nicked the device. She was able to follow him with her car until he was able to escape in an area with some garden plots.

German article - Title by express.de (region Duesseldorf)
"GEMEINGEFÄHRLICH! Polizei zieht diesen Klapper-Roller aus dem Verkehr"
The 17 y-o male adolescent who just wanna ride a vehicle has run into a lot of trouble with the local police in Wickrath/Moenchengladbach-NRW.
Without front brakes, head lights and speedometer but with a makeshift water cooler installed with parts of a rubber garden hose instead of the usual air cooler, the 'technical whizz guy' and his parents, respectively, will face hefty fines due to a long list of violations. Btw, the scooter was confiscated.

German article - title by express.de (region Bonn)
"Gaga: Polizei rüffelt Einbruchsopfer"
This was quite a blow for a 37 y-o self-employed insurance agent and town council member of Koenigswinter when he saw the 'open' window of his BMW 318i. Normally, he parks the car in his garage. Due to disposal of some domestic bulky waste, he parked outside. After having seen the break-in, he drove to the local police authority to report the crime. And surprise - he got ticketed because of the broken car window after he had parked the BMW on the police visitor's parking lot.

German article, title of express.de
"Kölner (84) wollte zum Supermarkt - und landete in Bayern!"
His ride to a Cologne supermarket ended after 470 kms (292 miles) without any drop of fuel in his tank - and in Sengenthal, BAVARIA.
Even Bavarian State Police weren't able to convince the senior that he had gone this far. But he is at home now - safe and sound, his three sons picked him up the same night.

Exceeding the speed limit of 130 kph (81 mph) on Austrian 'autobahns' by 25 kph (16 mph) will cost you 60 euros ($82).
The farmer's tractor makes 25 kph 'on good days', according to the Austrian man who got ticketed.

A confused elderly man tried to find his way home in a German town almost 400 kilometres from his Austrian hometown, it has been reported.

German title of Bild's:
"ACH DU DICKES EI!
US-Zoll beschlagnahmt Ü-Ei bei Einreise"
A Canadian woman would have faced a fine of US-$ 300 if she had taken a Kinder Surprise egg to the U.S.
In the U.S., it's strictly forbidden to hide toys in food stuff.
Due to the possible danger of swallowing a whole 'Kinder Surprise' chocolate egg with the plastic toy, those items are 'contraband' there.
Read more:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2011/01/10/man-kinder-surprise-border.html

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Times of India reports that police in Mumbai have recovered 20 diamond-studded Franck Muller watches worth several million dollars and six less expensive timepieces as well as "chemicals", stuffed into the cavity of a toilet on an Air India flight that landed in Mumbai Monday night 10 January.

A disabled woman died of thirst after her partner perished from organ failure, police in Styria have said.

The accident happened when the woman pulled her vehicle up to ticket scanner so she could exit the parking lot. Knowing her driver's window was not functioning, she opened her door and got partially out to stick her ticket in the machine. At that point, her foot slipped from the brake, said York Regional Police Acting Staff Sgt. Taylor Ward.