Vole hunter shoots himself in the hand

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A Carinthian man suffered serious injuries when he shot himself with a metal bolt as he tried to set up a vole trap in his garden on Sunday.Police in Völkermarkt said yesterday (Mon) the bolt slashed open the 53-year-old’s right hand when he tried to install the trap.The man is recovering in Klagenfurt’s UKH clinic.

Pig spared from slaughter after falling off trailer

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Farmers decided not to slaughter a pig after it survived falling from a driving lorry yesterday (Mon).Lower Austrian authorities said today bosses of the Ratzersdorf-based farming business will keep the animal which got away with bruises after falling from a trailer and down an embankment. The pig was caught by local firemen and passersby who […]

Woman’s ‘Vertical Limit’ parking blunder becomes internet hit

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A Salzburg woman made herself a worldwide laughing stock as her car was raised by an opening car park gate.The woman – who has not been identified by officials – wanted to leave the underground car park of the city’s Europark shopping centre Thursday evening. Not having realised that the gate has not yet fully […]

Kid walks two kilometres ‘to visit babysitter’

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A four-year-old boy was reunited with his parents after he left home “to visit his babysitter”.Officials in Villach, Carinthia, said today (Tues) police officers picked up the child around two kilometres from his home. He told the policemen he wanted to visit his babysitter in the neighbouring town.The boy’s worried parents had called police after […]

Vienna is Europe’s new ‘dog-trafficking mafia hub’, say police

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Police have branded Vienna International Airport (VIA) the “new main turnstile” of the internationally operating animal-trafficking Mafia as 26 puppies were discovered on Saturday.A police official said yesterday (Mon): “We discovered the dogs in the boot of a car parked on the airport’s K1 parking lot. Our team acted on an anonymous tip-off.”He added that […]

Farmer dies helping crashed parachutist

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A 54-year-old man died while trying to help a crashed parachutist disentangle his parachute from a tree on Friday.Police in Lind, Carinthia, said today (Mon) that the parachutist had managed safely to cut himself free after landing in the treetops in a forest and gone to a nearby farm to get a ladder so he […]

Landing InterSky plane touches power line

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InterSky bosses have said their technicians will cooperate with Italian officials to investigate an incident that had occurred during the landing of one of their jets on the island of Elba.No one was injured when a Dash 8-300 propeller plane coming from Zurich, Switzerland, touched a power supply line as it was landing on Saturday […]

ÖAMTC warns of online holiday booking price gaps

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Flights and hotel stays are significantly cheaper when booked at airlines’ and hotels’ websites than via internet travel platforms, a new survey has shown.Officials at motorists’ association ÖAMTC said today (Mon) they had discovered differences in price of up to 142 Euros in tests in which they booked flights and hotel stays for three-day trips […]

Klagenfurt police arrest four heroin dealers

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Police said drug dealers they had arrested on the weekend had earned more than 600,000 Euros selling heroin during the past 11 months.Investigators in Klagenfurt announced today (Mon) the four-member all-male gang aged 19 to 22 had been taken into custody and 1.8 kilograms of heroin had been confiscated.Police found out the gang – who […]

Italians flocking to Carinthia after ‘Marian apparition’

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Canny town hall officials in Carinthia hope their town will make a fortune after an Italian seer claimed he had experienced a Marian apparition.Bad St. Leonhard officials have decided to set up a devotion memorial tomorrow (Sat) where Salvatore Caputa was said to have encountered the Virgin Mary last week.Caputa claimed he had received a […]