A shop manager had a narrow escape as an elderly driver crashed though the stores glass front this morning (Fri).The 76-year-old woman from Wels had tried to park her car outside the Billa shop in Bad Ischl in Upper Austrias Gmunden district, but smashed through the front door. The pensioner is understood to have mixed […]
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Robbers hijack police car
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Three criminals were caught after robbing a jewellers and hijacking a police car in Tyrol yesterday (Weds).The Serbian gang aged between 21 and 29 threatened staff at a posh jeweller’s shop in Innsbruck with guns before smashing several showcases with hammers and an axe around midday. The trio escaped with several precious watches and various […]
Police in Leibnitz are investigating after a Turk was knifed down by a kebab shop owner yesterday (Mon).The seriously injured 34-year-old man is currently recovering at a local hospital. The suspect a 29-year-old Turkish man has been put in custody as investigations continue.Regional newspapers report that the men met to settle an ongoing […]
A pensioner has been arrested after being caught driving without a licence for the fourth time in as many months.The 64-year-old resident of Salzburg sped off when police asked him to pull over in a routine traffic check near the town of Hof yesterday (Weds). The man was caught after a wild street chase minutes […]
Furniture megastore chain XXXLutz bosses have described the firms upcoming expansion to Sweden as an “emotional highlight”.The Wels-based company will open its first shop in the homeland of global market leader Ikea next month. Around 300 staff will find work in the 25,000-square-metre store in the southern city of Malmo from 4 November.Thomas Saliger, the […]
Sport 2000 recovers
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The sport shop association Sport 2000 is back in the black, it has emerged.The company a cooperation of 272 businessmen running 242 stores said today (Mon) its earnings in the 2009/2010 business year, which ended on 30 April, were 1.006 million Euros.Sport 2000, whose headquarters are in the Upper Austrian town of Ohlsdorf, […]
Natascha Kampusch has been criticised for stressing well ahead of the presentation of her autobiography that she will not provide any autographs.Michaela Bokon, manager of book chain Thalias Vienna-Landstraße shop where the 21-year-old will speak about “3,096 Tage” (3,096 Days) on 9 September, said today (Fri) Kampusch had made clear she would not sign her […]
Vienna teen robs sex shop
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A 12-year-old Vienna boy has been caught with a pocket full of condoms after breaking into a sex shop on Saturday evening.Police in the capital said today (Mon) Turkish teen Ali A. was stopped with 15 condoms in his pockets outside the store in Donaustadt district.”Officers arrived minutes after the shops automatic break-in alarm went […]
A have-a-go tobacconist scared off an armed robber by throwing a pack of cigarettes straight into his face, yesterday (Weds).Graz police said the 56-year-old shop owner did not hesitate when the robber demanded money from him at gunpoint and chucked the pack of Gauloises straight into the gunmans face.The would-be robber and his accomplice waiting […]
An elderly Carinthian driver crashed into a shop entrance in Althofen today (Fri).Police in the province said the man, 86, steered his car into the store in an attempt to park the vehicle.Another elderly man a 71-year-old Althofen resident was squashed between a metal pole and the car after failing to get clear […]