Austrian police have arrested two butchers from the Czech Republic who worked in a meat packaging plant on the border who used to sneak out into the car park at the back of their firm and throw meat over the fence where accomplices would load into the car and sell it across the border to […]
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Runaway Lynx found killed by a train
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A wild lynx that escaped in spring after a small landslide from a hill around its enclosure demolished a wall has been discovered run over by a train. Keepers have spent months setting up traps around the Mautern adventure Park near Salzburg in Austria without any sign of the eight-year-old female wildcat named “Hera”. Officials […]
Burgenland man impaled in dare
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A 43-year-old man is in a critical condition after being injured in a bizarre test of courage.The man reportedly tried to impress his pals by leaping over a high fence in Oberpetersdorf, Burgenland, yesterday evening (Weds). He fell over after getting stuck with one of his legs. His chest was speared by a wooden fencepost […]
A school bus driver was found nearly four times over the drink and drive limit after an accident on Monday.Police in the Styrian district of Judenburg announced today (Weds) that the woman who got away uninjured needed counselling after the crash in which three children aged eight and nine were injured on Monday.The […]
Monkey bites boy
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A family father may face charges over negligence after his son was seriously injured by a monkey at the weekend.The four-year-old child was bitten on the hand by male Barbary Macaque named “Juppi” at a wildlife park in Preding, Styria, on Sunday after he was lifted over the fence by his dad to feed the […]
Gardener survives fence impalement
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A Vienna man is recovering after he was impaled by a garden fence yesterday (Weds).The 45-year-old fell onto one of the fences metal poles after he lost balance while cutting back a bush in his garden in Döbling district. The metal pike ripped through his upper body narrowly missing his ribs and emerged from out […]
Brit skier dies in Tyrol
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A 50-year-old British holidaymaker died while skiing with friends in the Tyrolean Alps, police said today (Fri).Officials in Sölden said the man may have skied into a fence post at the bottom of a “red piste” in the glacier resort on Wednesday.The victim – identified by authorities as Stuart M. from Kent – was skiing […]