Hunters shoots washing machine
Hunters shoots washing machine
A German hunter hit a washing machine, electric drier and the wall before finally killing a wild pig that was on the rampage in a house.
The pig had run into the communal wash room of a house in Ketzerbachtal in Saxony, and started shredding sheets and clothing.
Attempts to drive it out of the house failed and hunter Walter Kopinger, 57 was called to kill the animal.
Because of the confined space he used a Magnum 357 rather than his rifle but still only managed to hit the animal after several shots.
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Boy runs away from homework
Boy runs away from homework
A 10-year-old boy stowed away on a train and ran away from home in China – because he had too much homework.
Xu Zhiqiang, 10, from Cili town, Hunan province, ended up thousands of miles away from home, reports Information Times.
He said he could not cope with the amount of homework he was expected to complete during the one month winter holiday.
Xu said: “Each of us has to finish two thick books of homework. Take the mathematics homework as an example, it has 100 pages with all kinds of questions.”
To make matters worse, Xu’s mom found a mistake on one question and punished him by getting him to correct the mistake and copy the right answer 100 times.
After copying it 50 times, an exhhausted Xu ran out of his home and hopped onto a train.
“I stayed under the seat a day and a night during which I transferred trains as all people did and finally I didn’t know where I had come to,” he said.
Xu had reached Guangzhou station, thousands of miles from home, where a station policeman found him the next day.
He could not remember his telephone number – or even his full address – but eventually the policeman managed to contact his worried parents.
The boy’s father, Xu Yueping, said: “We were going desperate. The whole town was out looking for him. Now we finally can breathe normally.”
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Shane’s suicide mix-up
Shane’s suicide mix-up
Shane Richie’s landlady sparked a panic when she mistook his script for a suicide note.
She found a letter on the actor’s bed in the apartment where he was staying in Manchester, reports the Sun.
It read: “This world is too much for me. I can’t go on with all the disastrous things that keep happening around me.”
The landlady rang the producers of ITV1′s The Good Samaritan – the comedy-drama he was filming – to raise the alarm.
Shane said: “The suicide note was part of a script. But the landlady called the TV company because she was convinced I was going to jump off a bridge or something.
“It really was very funny afterwards when the producers called me to check that everything was OK.”
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Church says marry on the cheap
Church says marry on the cheap
The Church is advising couples to get married on the cheap in second-hand clothes and have a DIY reception.
A new Church of England guide advises couples to shun the “spend, spend, spend culture” and “embrace a more simplistic approach”.
The average bill for a wedding in the UK has now reached £17,000, with the bride’s dress alone costing £826.
Guide author Rev Andrew Body, a former Relate counsellor, says brides should travel to their wedding by taxi wearing a second-hand dress from a charity shop.
He also suggests asking guests to take their own booze to the reception.
The Bishop of Hereford Rt Rev Anthony Priddis praised its advice, saying: “Marriage is absolutely fundamental to our human life and, therefore, to society’s health. Couples need help and encouragement to walk this path.”
Making the Most of Weddings, on sale now for £6.99, also highlights how newlyweds can cut the environmental costs by opting for organic and fair trade food at their reception knees-up.
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Divorce over pumpkin pie
Divorce over pumpkin pie
A Russian man divorced his wife of 18 years after finding she had been feeding him cheap pumpkins instead of courgettes.
Ivan Dimitrov, 47, was devastated to find the pies he had been eating for six months were made of pumpkins and not courgettes.
Mr Dimitrov, from Voronezh, said when he realised the truth, after finding pumpkin rinds in the bin, he immediately hired a lawyer to organise a quick divorce from wife Irena, 38.
He said: “She knows I absolutely hate pumpkins and she lied to me for months about it just because the pumpkins were cheap.
“What else has she been lying about? What man could trust a woman who fed him pumpkins for half a year?”
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Teen jailed for skipping school
Teen jailed for skipping school
A 15-year-old schoolgirl has been sent to prison in Germany – for skipping school.
Maggie Haineder, from Goerlitz in Saxony, was sentenced to two weeks in prison after she missed more than three weeks of school.
Judge Andreas Pech refused to back down despite criticism saying: “She had a fine which she did not pay, then she asked for the fine to be converted into doing social work which she did not do.
“Now she has to go to jail. A prison sentence was the last resort. Everything else failed.”
The girl had asked for the prison sentence to be converted back to social work, but Judge Pech refused, saying: “This is not a TV show. The sentence has been handed down. Full stop.”
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Psychic museum closes unexpectedly
Psychic museum closes unexpectedly
A psychic museum is closing its doors – due to unforeseen circumstances.
Astrologer Jonathan Cainer set up the York Psychic Museum in 2003 but business has been less than expected.
Mr Cainer told the York Press he had handed over the lease, with the intention of making a return in 2008.
He said: “If you are asking me for predictions when exactly it will open up again, then it is hard to say.
“Although I’m in the prediction business, I don’t believe you can make predictions about things you are close to.”
Mr Cainer said the museum was only seeing 100 people a week through its doors during peak times and, when he reopens, he would like to see that figure at around 100 a day.
Mr Crainer said he had reluctantly concluded the museum would never meet his expectations until he could dedicate more of his own time and energy to it.
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