Topic: POLICE REPORT - on October 25, 2003 at 11:49:06 PM CEST
Thieves steal gaurd dog
Chattanooga Police checked out a burglary at B&B Plumbing on National Avenue. There was only one thing missing - the guard dog.
The owner said he found a chain link fence cut and his 10-month-old black and yellow German Shepherd missing.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on October 21, 2003 at 2:33:27 PM CEST
Section-Control-Strafen noch nicht zugestellt
Vollautomatische Geschwindigkeitskontrolle Die Section-Control wurde im August im Kaisermühlentunnel in Wien-Donaustadt in Betrieb genommen. Mit Kameras wird das Kennzeichen jedes Autos erfasst, das in die kontrollierte Zone einfährt. Beim Verlassen wird wiederum das Kennzeichen erkannt und eine Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit berechnet. Die Daten möglicher Temposünder werden elektronisch dem Polizeicomputer übermittelt.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on October 20, 2003 at 4:48:14 PM CEST
Woman calls police to get rid of spider
A Swiss woman claimed a burglar had broken into the offices where she was working late at night because she wanted police to come and get rid of a spider.
The young woman was alone in the office building in the Swiss district of Pfaeffikon near Zurich when she spotted the spider.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on April 14, 2003 at 3:40:43 PM CEST
London Police Issue Alert on Escaped Owl
ondon police on Monday warned owners of small pets to be on the alert for a large, hungry bird of prey that escaped from its owners while being exercised in a park.
Jazz, a European eagle owl, has not been seen since Saturday, when he broke free from his leash in east London. He "flew away in a distressed state after some crows went for him," the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on April 14, 2003 at 8:59:24 AM CEST
Convicts make drizzling escape
Fifteen inmates have escaped from a prison near Kampala, Uganda, after using water and urine to weaken the prison walls. On Friday, Mary Kaddu, a spokesperson for the Prison Service, said: "This prison is very very old. The walls are very weak and the cells very small. These men must have used urine and water to weaken the spot where they escaped through. They must have coordinated their move ... they must have planned this for a very long time," Kaddu said.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on April 8, 2003 at 6:28:08 PM CEST
Tellers laugh robber out of bank
Police say they aren't sure what charge is appropriate for a man arrested after tellers laughed him out of a bank he apparently tried to rob.
"Put the money in the bag," he demanded.
Instead, one of the two tellers told him the bank was out of money, and the other teller laughed and offered the man deposit slips. She told police that made the intruder angry, and he left without any money in his bag.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on April 4, 2003 at 1:31:31 PM CEST
Police launch virus manhunt
Hong Kong police have launched a manhunt for hundreds of people who have been exposed to a deadly respiratory virus as World Health Organisation experts try to nail down the source of the disease in southern China.
"If our Health Department colleagues think these people may infect other people, we'll use minimal force to send them to hospital for treatment," a police spokesman said on Friday.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on April 4, 2003 at 1:20:26 PM CEST
Man Uses Vacuum Cleaner to Steal Coins
Swedish Man Faces Charges for Using Vacuum Cleaner to Suck Coins Out of Parking Meters Police said Persson used a pilfered set of keys to open the fronts of two meters, which take 1-, 5- and 10-kronor coins. Then, because the area holding the coins couldn't be cleaned out by hand, he plugged his vacuum cleaner into electrical sockets that, conveniently enough, are provided on Sweden's electronic parking meters.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 26, 2003 at 5:09:31 PM CET
Sex toy kills pensioner
A German pensioner died in southern Spain after experiments with a home-made sex toy went badly wrong, media reports quoted Spanish police as saying on Wednesday. A German pensioner died in southern Spain after experiments with a home-made sex toy went badly wrong, media reports quoted Spanish police as saying on Wednesday.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 18, 2003 at 7:01:54 PM CET
Coconuts kill bus passengers
Most of the deaths and injuries were caused by coconuts that flew out of the truck, crashed through the windows of the bus and hit passengers, said Mauro Silveira, a spokesman for the Brazilian Highway Police.
"It was like they were cannon balls," Silveira said.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 16, 2003 at 11:36:23 AM CET
Striking prostitutes arrested after fair pay protest
A strike by women at a German brothel came to an end after just an hour when police arrested them for admitting being prostitutes.
Officers said it was usually hard to arrest the women because of a lack of proof, but in this case they'd admitted they worked on the streets by carrying placards demanding fair pay for prostitutes.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 13, 2003 at 11:38:05 AM CET
Ukraine's dummy police cars
A unique police car has been introduced in Ukraine as part of an ongoing campaign against speeding.
The "vehicle" is flat, has no motor or moving parts, and is made of a single sheet of metal.
It looks close enough to the real thing to instil reckless drivers with respect for the speed limit.
But there are fears that the dummy could be more valuable as scrap metal than as a deterrent to speeding.
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