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Drunk, naked driver smashes 17 vehicles in Moscow

A drunk and naked driver lost control during driving in Moscow and smashed a total of 17 cars, including four police vehicles, the Moscow police stated on Sunday. “On Sunday, an unknown man who was drunk and driving a Renault Megan automobile lost control during driving and damaged several cars. He did not respond to a police demand to stop, after which the police started to chase him,” a police spokesman said. During the chase, the offender damaged 17 vehicles, ...

Submited at Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at 9:00 pm by hilman

Urals student commandeers tram, drives for 40 minutes

A student from Chelyabinsk region stole a tram and drove it along its regularly scheduled route for 40 minutes, a police spokesman in the region stated on Friday. The 15-year-old tram fanatic had mastered a classroom course in tram operation and repeatedly visited the tram depot, the spokesman said. He commandeered the tram during a lunch break, providing flawless, on-time service to passengers, who rode for free since the conductor was absent. Depot employees eventually shunted the tram onto a ...

Submited at Friday, October 21st, 2011 at 9:00 pm by madison

Swiss mascot Zottel the Goat found safe and sound

A goat named Zottel, the mascot of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), has been found in Zurich safe and sound, the party stated in a statement. Zottel and another goat, Mimo, were stolen from the farm of SVP lawmaker Ernst Schibli in the canton of Zurich early on Saturday. A radical left group, Antifaschistische Aktion, claimed responsibility for the kidnapping, saying in an on-line statement that members of the group had “paid a visit to Zottel and took him ...

Submited at Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by madison

Swiss right-wing party goat mascot missing, feared dead

Zottel the Goat, the mascot of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), went missing a week before federal polls and is feared dead, Swiss media stated on Monday. Zottel and his “girlfriend” Mimo disappeared from their stables in the canton of Zurich early on Saturday. A police search for them began nearly immediately, but has yielded no results so far. Ernst Schibli, a Swiss MP who took care of Zottel, stated the mascot received an anonymous letter with death threats ...

Submited at Monday, October 17th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by madison

Expensive BMW painted in purple in central Russia for wrong parking

VELIKY NOVGOROD, October 10 (RIA Novosti) – House painters in Russia’s central city of Veliky Novgorod avenged a driver of a wrong-parked costly BMW by painting his silver-colored automobile into purple. A witness stated that an unknown driver parked on Sunday his BMW on one of the central streets of the city near a building, where house painters were working. The parked automobile occupied a considerable part of the sidewalk posing inconvenience for pedestrians and obstructing work of house painters.

Submited at Monday, October 10th, 2011 at 6:00 pm by madison

German WWII assault gun stolen near Moscow

A rare German-made self-propelled assault gun has disappeared from a memorial site at a small village in the Moscow region after being replaced with a copy during restoration, prosecutors stated on Monday. One of the few remaining Sturmgeschutz III Ausf D assault guns was dug up from a marsh in the 1980s and set up as a memorial near the village of Strokovo – the site of fierce battles during the German push on Moscow in 1941. The car was ...

Submited at Saturday, October 8th, 2011 at 2:00 am by sofia

One-armed man fined $200 in Belarus for clapping at unsanctioned rally

A court in Belarus fined a one-armed man for taking part in unsanctioned “clapping” protests in Minsk earlier in the week, Belarusian information website Khartiya-97 reported on Friday. “The court ruled that the disabled man by the name of Konstantin will have to pay a fine of 1.05 million Belarusian rubles [some $200],” the website said. The man was found guilty by the court of clapping in a public place. The fact that the man was clapping was proved by ...

Submited at Friday, July 8th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by madison

Russian retiree shoots wife instead of pig

A Russian pensioner is facing up to two years in jail for accidentally shooting his wife dead as he was preparing to kill a pig, the Investigative Committee regional directorate stated on Thursday. The 60-year-old resident of the Tula region, about 200 km south of Moscow, was loading a homemade firearm to shoot a pig when it accidentally went off, fatally injuring his wife who was standing nearby. The man has been charged with negligent homicide and ordered not to ...

Submited at Thursday, June 16th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by admin

California diver launches underwater search for bin Laden’s body

Eccentric California salvage diver and entrepreneur Bill Warren, 59, has announced that he wants to find Osama Bin Laden’s body as proof the al Qaeda leader is really dead, the New York Post said. “I’m doing it because I am a patriotic American who wants to know the truth. I do it for the world,” Warren told the paper. The almost decade-long hunt for the elusive al-Qaeda leader, believed to be the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, ended on May ...

Submited at Sunday, June 12th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by sofia

Clocks in Sicily inexplicably run ahead

For over a week digital clocks and watches in Sicily are complicating their owners by running more than 15 minutes fast, local media said. The mysterious time changes caught the attention of two young locals, who set up a Facebook page calling for those affected to come forward. One of the young men, Francesco Nicosia, told French on-line magazine Rue89 “I realised something was wrong when I started getting to work earlier. After some investigation I noticed that I was ...

Submited at Saturday, June 11th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by robert