An elderly Upper Austrian died after he fell off a ladder picking apples yesterday afternoon (Weds).Officials in Pettenbach announced today that the 83-year-old man’s body was found lying next to the collapsed ladder which was set up on an sloping pasture – by his son. He suffered a broken neck.A local doctor could only […]
An Austrian has been put in detention in Croatia after police discovered child porn material on his mobile phone.The Croatian Times reports today (Thurs) that the mans mobile phone was checked by police officers after residents in Banjol on the island of Rab reported him for filming passing children.Police decided to search his mobiles memory […]
A tram driver faces disciplinary procedures for working while being high on drugs.Vienna public transport agency Wiener Linien announced today (Thurs) the 25-year-old was suspended after a drug test showed he steered a line 71 tram under the influence of illegal substances yesterday. The company did not reveal what kind of drugs the man had […]
A Viennese police officer faces the sack after ordering a parking violator to buy him a crate of beer instead of paying a fine.Judge Irene Mann heard yesterday (Weds) how the 28-year-old officer wrote on the ticket “That costs one beer crate” after spotting a police pennant inside the illegally parked BMW in the city […]
Three people have been arrested after six kilos of heroin were found in their car.Salzburg police announced today (Thurs) officers discovered around six kilograms of the drug as well as antiques and coins of unclear origin during a traffic check on Tuesday.The discovered heroin had a street sale value of around 800,000 Euros, they said.Two […]
A German cleaner has been invited to spend a weekend in the Tyrolean Alps after handing in an Austrian tourists lost wallet containing thousands of Euros.Police in Mindelheim in the German State of Bavaria announced today (Thurs) the owner a man from the Tyrolean town of Reutte spontaneously decided to offer the honest […]
A British man has described the terrifying moment when an armed robber pointed a gun at him after he went into a high street bank in the centre of Linz yesterday (Tuesday).Simon Byrne, 24, from Liverpool, said: “I had only just walked into the bank in the middle of the day. I wanted to open […]
A shoplifter caught making off with goods from a shopping centre in Parndorf later killed himself while in custody, it has emerged.Eisenstadt prison officials confirmed newspaper reports from today (Weds) that the 38-year-old Slovak was found dead seven hours after he was arrested and put in a holding cell.Prison authorities said the man hanged himself […]
A Lower Austrian winemaker died in a freak worksite accident this morning (Weds).Langenlois police said the 46-year-old was found stuck in a wine press head first by his wife who heard his screams for help.Fire-fighters managed to free the vintner using hydraulic equipment, but he died in an ambulance en route to a clinic in […]
A zoo worker has been fired after he was found growing cannabis in the rhino enclosure.Salzburg Hellbrunn Zoo director Sabine Grebner said today (Mon): “Its horrible! We never thought such a thing was possible. We are here for families and kids and we dont have anything to do with drugs.”Police said the 59-year-old rhinoceros […]