An Austrian man may face charges after he blinded a pilot with a laser pen during landing procedures at a Swiss airport.Swiss officials said today (Weds) no decision has yet been made over whether the 27-year-old will get away with a fine or face criminal charges after the incident at Geneva International Airport, which is […]
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A five-year-old boy has been rescued by volunteer firemen after getting trapped inside a postal container.The inquisitive Upper Austria lad had been playing with the one-cubic-metre container when he fell inside, the lid closing on top of him.His panicked mum who saw the incident quickly called the Wels firebrigade who cut him free from the […]
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 citys Europark shopping centre Thursday evening. Not having realised that the gate has not yet fully […]
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 […]
Five teenage would-be muggers did a runner after their judo champion victim proved his skills when they tried taking his mobile.The gang fled as the boy, 15, punched one of the attackers in the face in the after-school incident in Graz yesterday (Weds).The unharmed teenager then went to the next police station to report the […]
A Mon Chéri praline left on the windscreen of a Styrian female mayors car last Saturday was not poisonous, provincial authorities said today (Fri).In an earlier incident, another Mon Chéri praline left on the windscreen of Mayor Hannes Hirtzbergers car in Spitz, Lower Austria, on 9 February 2008 was laced with strychnine. He became brain […]
A workers head was nearly crushed at his workplace when it got stuck between the rear axle of a truck and a jack, police said.The worker, 19, from Fürstenfeld district, was standing in a pit below a truck on which he was working when the incident occurred in Styrias Hartberg district yesterday (Tues).The mans screams […]
Mauthausen wall defaced again
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The outer wall of the former Nazi concentration and death camp at Mauthausen, Upper Austria, was defaced again last Friday night, police said.An unknown party wrote “The blood of Turks and Jews is poisonous,” said Michael Tischlinger, the head of the provincial office for protection of the constitution and the fight against terrorism.He said the […]