Spanish police arrested 47-year-old Austrian Bernd Eichelberger after he burned down a massage parlour when the female masseuse refused to give him “a happy end”. The tourist in the town of Palma de Mallorca on the Spanish island of Majorca had gone for the massage believing that a happy end was part of the service, […]
Three thieves are set to celebrate a good Christmas after breaking into a gourmet butchers and making off with the entire stock of a half a ton of speciality meats, including deer, pheasant and wild duck. The crooks also stole several bottles of vintage wine after breaking into the store room in Vienna’s posh Naschmarkt. […]
A young man suffered several broken bones when he fell out of a second-floor window last night (Thurs/Fri).Roland P. opened the balcony door in the family home in Zwettl, Lower Austria, before falling over the handrail, police said today.The 21-year-old, who had never sleepwalked before, was found by his girlfriend who started looking for him […]
A man has been arrested after claiming that his girlfriend “was clambering about” in their flat in front of the window before she plunged to her death.The 29-year-old woman died before an ambulance arrived at the housing estate in Vienna-Landstraße yesterday evening (Tues).Her boyfriend, 24, told police he had been drinking with her in their […]
A would-be robber needed treatment at a hospital after he cut open his hand trying to break a café window Tuesday night.Police said today (Thurs) two officers on patrol arrested the man cowering next to the broken window of a local in Viennas Favoriten district.They said the man had been attempting to break into the […]
A Lower Austrian teenager broke his leg when he fell 15 metres out of a window he had opened because he felt sick.Officials in Klosterneuburg said today (Thurs) Christian V. had left his classroom at the BR/BRG Buchbergergasse to go to the toilet. On his way there, he opened a window in the hallway for […]
A thief stole a rhinoceros iguana worth 5,000 Euros Monday night from a store in Graz, police said.The man broke into the shop through a window between 6:45pm on Monday and 8:20am on Tuesday. Nothing else was missing from the store.Police said they suspected “a reptile enthusiast”.