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 […]
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-olds right hand when he tried to install the trap.The man is recovering in Klagenfurts UKH clinic.
A German woman abandoned her drunk husband as they travelled to Slovakia yesterday (Sun).Officials in Seewalchen, Upper Austria, said today the woman had dumped her husband at a motorway rest stop after he tried wrestling the steering wheel from her.Customers at the Seewalchen rest stop restaurant called police after the man told them his wife […]
Bakery staff were given suspended sentences yesterday (Weds) after they sold a bottle of mineral water filled with detergent last year.David D. is still recovering from taking one gulp from the bottle he bought at the shop in Grafenschachen in Burgenlands Oberwart district last November.The bakerys 40-year-old boss told judges at Eisenstadts provincial court that […]
A pensioner who faked his own suicide to escape a sex abuse trial was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday.A court in Korneuburg, Lower Austria, heard how Helmut B. was found alive and well at an Upper Austrian monastery months after being declared dead.The 68-year-old staged his own suicide by jumping off a […]
A robber armed with a pistol fled on a bicycle after robbing a petrol station in Linz, Upper Austria, police said today (Mon).The man entered the station shortly after midnight and demanded money, which he put into a plastic sack before fleeing.Police said the robber was in his early 20s, 1.85 metres tall and thin. […]
A man in debt in Tadten in Burgenlands Neusiedl am See district set his own house on fire early Saturday morning, police said.The man, 35, used flammable liquid to torch the house in four different places.Police said the man had given contradictory accounts of what had supposedly happened and finally confessed to having started the […]
A pensioner was seriously injured yesterday (Thurs) when a tree he was cutting down fell on top of him near Rauris in Salzburgs Pinzgau region.Police said the man, 60, had been the victim of bad luck since the trees branches had hit another tree as it was falling, changing the direction of its fall onto […]
A married couple and a Graz man who used voodoo to terrorise a family in Abtissendorf in Styrias Graz-Umgebung district have been arrested.Police said today (Fri) they had traced threatening SMS messages sent from the married couple to the family.The husband, 46, his wife, 23, and an accomplice, a 46-year-old Graz man, were arrested and […]
A drunk man carrying 1.1 kilos of explosives showed up at a police station in Saalfelden, Salzburg, on Tuesday night demanding to speak to officers and spill the beans.The 25-year-old told startled cops he would “name names” and tell them where more of the explosive, an industrial product called “Gelatine-Donarit,” was stashed if they revoked […]