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Con men steal three miles of railway track
Con men steal three miles of railway track
A group of German railway workers were conned into dismantling three miles of railway track.
Two men, claiming to be from German rail company Deutsche Bahn, ordered them to remove the track, in Lohra, Hessen, and load it onto a waiting lorry.
The con only came to light when the workers asked Deutsche Bahn for their money and were told the job had never been ordered.
Police believe the con men were thieves who carted off the steel track and sold it for scrap metal.
DB spokesman Hartmut Lange said: “I have never seen anything like this. We’ve had cases where cable was stolen, but never the tracks.”
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from Ananova
Straight-A Student Pulled From Class Over Hair Color
Straight-A Student Pulled From Class Over Hair Color
An administrator at Bueker Middle School said the girl’s red highlights were distracting to other students.
School officials said there is a rule at Bueker that hairstyles that are distracting to the educational process are not allowed.
“Like colors that are totally out of the norm, blue, or green, or purple. But I think red is more normal and I don’t think that many people would disagree with me,” she said.
One Of World’s Oldest Creatures Dies
One Of World’s Oldest Creatures Dies
One of the world’s oldest creatures, a giant tortoise believed to have been about 250 years old, has died in the Calcutta zoo where it spent more than half its long life.
Addwaita, which means “the one and only” in the local Bengali language, was one of four Aldabra tortoises brought to India by British sailors in the 18th century.
Zoo officials say he was a gift for Lord Robert Clive of the East India Company, who was instrumental in establishing British colonial rule in India, before he returned to England in 1767.
Couple celebrate with 50-year-old tinned chicken
Couple celebrate with 50-year-old tinned chicken
A Manchester couple celebrated 50 years of marriage by eating a tin of chicken they were given on their wedding day.
Les and Beryl Lailey had kept the can, part of a wedding gift hamper, as a memento of their big day in 1956, says the Mirror.
Les vowed not to eat it until their golden wedding anniversary, so whenever they moved home the Buxted chicken went with them.
And when they finally reached the milestone grandad Les, 73, opened the tin – and found the chicken was good as new.
He said: “I had it with some potatoes and veg and it went down a treat. I knew it would be fine. I’ve not felt funny at all.”
Prof Eunice Taylor, a Salford University food safety expert, said: “It can last indefinitely if it has been sealed properly.”
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from Ananova
The Lincoln conspiracy
Inside the plot to avenge the Confederacy
The shooting of the 16th US President in 1865 has obsessed historians ever since. As two new books piece together the events that led to the assassination, Andrew Gumbel examines how they mirrored September 11 and its aftermath.
Most people will remember that Abraham Lincoln was the first US president to be assassinated, that he was shot at close range in his box at a Washington theatre, and that his assassin was John Wilkes Booth, a sympathiser with the confederate South who had been left aghast by the outcome of the recently concluded Civil War.
What may not be so familiar, at least to non-specialists on this side of the Atlantic, are some of the other hair-raising details of the assassination plot. It was not just Lincoln, but the whole top echelon of the government that was targeted on the night of 14 April 1865. William Seward, the secretary of state, was viciously knifed in his own bed and came close to perishing nine days after he almost died in a horse-and-carriage accident. Andrew Johnson, the vice-president and eventual successor to Lincoln, would have been shot in his Washington hotel had his designated attacker not chickened out at the last moment. Ulysses Grant, the commander of the victorious Union army and future president, was originally scheduled to join Lincoln in his box at Ford’s Theatre and might not have survived had he kept the appointment.
Big blow for sex doll thief
A randy thief was left feeling deflated last week after he got six months for stealing a blow-up doll from a sex shop.
There was sniggering in the public gallery of Belfast Magistrates’ Court as a prosecutor told how Mark Short (18), stole the inflatable woman from the Private Lines sex shop in Gresham Street.
Short, of Bruslee Way in north Belfast, was one of a gang of youths who entered the seedy sex shop in July 21, 2004 and tried to force open the till to steal cash.
The gang fled without any money.