Tag Archives : Germany
Poison in salad
BERLIN (Reuters) – A customer shopping at a discount supermarket store in Germany found stems of a poisonous weed in mixed salad bags, triggering concerns about potential health risks, the store said.
Traces of senecio vulgaris or common groundsel, that can cause extensive liver damage if ingested [...]
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Cat found alive after 5 weeks under rubble
BERLIN (Reuters) – A cat named Felix was found alive and well beneath the rubble of a six-storey building in Cologne that collapsed five weeks ago, the fire brigade in German city said on Tuesday.
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Motorist survives three accidents in an hour
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German woman was involved in three car accidents in less than an hour that left a total of seven vehicles damaged but she suffered only slight injuries from the series of mishaps, police said Tuesday.
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Skeleton found in tree 29 years after suicide
BERLIN (Reuters) – The skeleton of a German retiree who tied himself to the top of a tree and shot himself to death nearly 30 years ago has been found by a hiker.
German police in the southern town of Landshut said on Monday the 69-year-old man disappeared in 1980 and had been classified as missing.
An [...]
Filed in: Lifestyle & Relationships
Thief nabbed with 68 tubes of toothpaste
BERLIN (Reuters) – Police in northern Germany are searching for a man who tried to walk out of a supermarket with 68 tubes of toothpaste stuffed into his clothing.
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Germany to air toy re-enactment of history on live TV
BERLIN (Reuters) – Two German entertainers will use hundreds of Playmobil men to re-enact the history of Germany from 1949 until 1990 on live television, a spokeswoman for the production company said on Thursday.
The re-enactment is based on a 500-page book by German historian, Hans-Ulrich Wehler [...]
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Woman goes down baggage chute at Swedish airport
An elderly woman misunderstood instructions while checking in at Sweden’s main airport and was whisked down a baggage shoot after she placed herself instead of her luggage on the belt, media reported Wednesday.
The 78-year-old woman, who was not named, was preparing to fly from Stockholm’s [...]
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Deer, cattle have true animal magnetism
Grazing cattle and sleeping deer tend to align their bodies along the North-South axis of the Earth’s magnetic field, European researchers said on Monday, giving new meaning to the phrase animal magnetism.
Herdsmen and hunters have long known that cattle and sheep tend to face the same direction [...]
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Tunnels show Hitler’s megalomaniac vision
Three vast tunnels were opened under central Berlin this month, giving a glimpse of Adolf Hitler’s megalomaniac vision of a new architectural centre for the capital of Nazi Germany.
The 16-metre (50-foot) deep tunnels were constructed in 1938 as part of an underground transport network beneath [...]
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Bank manager gives woman loans for sex
A German bank manager gave loans to a woman for sex and then embezzled thousands of euros to buy the silence of her relatives, authorities said on Thursday. When the man realized he could not offer the jobless woman a loan because of her poor credit history, he offered to lend her the money personally [...]
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Man forget his car at the gas station
Posted by Nick on November 11, 2007 · 2 Comments
In Berlin – A German man forgot his car after filling it up at a petrol station, police said Friday. “He just forgot about it and walked off home,” said a spokesman for police in the western city of Wuppertal. After the car had sat blocking the pump for about an hour, a woman [...]
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Woman in wheelchair takes highway shortcut
An 81-year-old German woman driving to a cemetery in her electric wheelchair decided to take a shortcut and drove the wrong way down a highway.
The wheelchair had been traveling at about four miles per hour. Vehicles on German motorways must clock at least 37 miles per hour, and there is no upper speed [...]
Filed in: Travel & Leisure
Farmer attacks police with muck spreader
A German farmer angry with police for trying to confiscate his tractor wrecked three patrol cars and evaded capture for seven hours before an elite unit managed to arrest him, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
The farmer, 53, was pulled over by police for driving his tractor without a license, despite [...]
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Shoplifter leaves address for German police
Police called to investigate a supermarket theft were surprised to discover the culprit had left his contact details with a shop assistant.
The 30-year-old thief, who was born in Liverpool, England, passed a note to the assistant which read in German: “Call the police, I’ve just stolen,” [...]
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A Man’s stink feet started a police raid
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police broke into a darkened apartment fearing they would find a dead body, after neighbors complained of a nasty smell seeping out onto the staircase.
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The shutters of the apartment had been closed for more than a week and the mailbox was filled with uncollected [...]
Filed in: Health & Wellness
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