Officer Delivers Baby in Siberian Train

Transport police officers helped deliver a baby on a Russian train on Wednesday night, officials from the Siberian Federal District Interior Ministry said. The conductor on the train, travelling from Abakan in Eastern Siberia to Moscow, announced that a pregnant passenger had gone into labor. Sergei Zapletnyak, an Interior Ministry warrant officer who had worked as a medical assistant, responded to the call for help. “I have never delivered a baby, only assisted,” he said. “When I learned that a ...

Submited at Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 9:59 am by admin

Kazakhstan Police Search for Street Strippers

Police from the Kazakhstan city of Kostanai are searching for two young women who walked naked around the city’s streets, the Newsru.com web portal stated on Tuesday. The girls, wearing only high-heel pumps and holding mini-dresses in their hands, were captured on video by an amateur who uploaded it on Youtube last week. About 15,000 have already watched the video and the majority of viewers have approved it. Several local residents identified the girls as dancers from a local strip ...

Submited at Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 12:01 pm by madison

Cessna Lands on Military Airfield in Belarus

A private Cessna-172 airplane landed on a military airfield in Belarus without permission, the Belta news bureau reported on Monday. The pilot, a Minsk resident, was detained. He had taken a few friends on board to give them “a bird’s eye view of the city” but had to make an emergency landing due to a technical problem. The pilot had not asked air traffic controllers for landing permission. It was uclear whether the passengers were also detained.

Submited at Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 9:00 am by Alina

Man Dies After Eating Heroin Hidden in Underwear

A man detained at a Moscow railway station died after eating a pack of cigarettes stuffed with heroin, police stated on Monday. Police detained the man, who was waiting on a train, on May 1 when he appeared to be under the influence of drugs. He was led away into a security room, where he was ordered to take his clothes off for inspection. He then “suddenly pulled a pack of cigarettes from his underwear, which he stuffed into his ...

Submited at Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 7:00 am by Gillan

Woman Skewered Dead in Moscow Bus

A post-holiday bus argument between two women in southern Moscow ended in one of them stabbed to death by a kebab skewer, police stated on Saturday. Media and police reports did not specify why the two women, whose names were withheld, were arguing on a crowded bus in the Tsaritsyno district on Friday evening. However, the discussion ended with one woman pulling out a skewer and stabbing the other in the back, city police stated on their website on Saturday. ...

Submited at Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 4:03 am by Gillan

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