Fire-fighters had to be called out to catch a horny ram which injured a rival male sheep after setting his sights on female members of his herd.The ram jumped over a fence into the neighbouring field where he started to mount the sheep after knocking out their bellwether (a castrated ram leading a sheep flock) […]
Former number one in the world Ana Ivanovic won her first WTA Tour title in two years in Linz yesterday (Sun).The 22-year-old Serb beat Swiss ace Patty Schnyder in straight sets (6-1, 6-2) in the final of the 220,000 US dollar Generali Ladies tournament.Ivanovic, who also triumphed in the 2008 edition of the event, was […]
A young woman from Salzburg coughed up thousands of Euros for a cat she was supposed to receive for free, it has emerged.The Thalgau resident transferred more than 22,000 Euros to anonymous businessman after having received a response to her online ad.The crooks offered a British Shorthair from Cameroon, but told the woman she must […]
A Carinthian farmer shot himself dead instead of starting a 200-day prison term, it has emerged.The Oberlienz resident left his farm on foot yesterday (Tues) shortly before a special Cobra police unit surrounded the estate to pick him up after he failed to turn up at Villach prison.He was due to spend 200 days behind […]
A teenager had both his legs chopped off in a farming accident yesterday (Sun).Patrick S., 15, was on the back of a tractor driven by his 50-year-old dad Gerhard in a field near Göpfritz in Lower Austrias Zwettl district when he lost his balance and fell into the operating milling machine being pulled by the […]
A Styrian pensioner is in critical condition after he accidentally showered himself with hot bitumen yesterday (Thurs).The 77-year-old Soboth resident was preparing the bitumen to paint his garage with before he slipped carrying a can with three litres of the substance.Doctors at the LKH hospital in Graz said the DIY enthusiast suffered serious burns to […]
A 74-year-old father of 10 drowned in a creek after he slipped and fell down an embankment cutting a hedge yesterday (Thurs).The pensioner was found by his wife who started looking for him when he failed to come in for lunch.The man was already dead when the horrified woman spotted him lying in a stream […]
A Viennese police officer faces the sack after ordering a parking violator to buy him a crate of beer instead of paying a fine.Judge Irene Mann heard yesterday (Weds) how the 28-year-old officer wrote on the ticket “That costs one beer crate” after spotting a police pennant inside the illegally parked BMW in the city […]
A postman has quit after more than 1,000 letters were found in his car.The 21-year-old told bosses he had “lost the overview” after the undelivered mail was discovered by police during a random traffic check in Linz, Upper Austria, yesterday (Weds).Officials said some of the letters the man had been hoarding in his vehicle had […]
A 34-year-old Hungarian trying to flog fake U2 tickets has been arrested.Officials in Salzburg said today (Thurs) the man was travelling to Munich by train yesterday where the Irish rock giants appeared last night.His belongings were checked when police found out that he was banned from staying in Austria due to his criminal record.Officers discovered […]