Archive for April, 2007
A Chinese woman knocked out by a cat falling from a block of flats is to sue 200 residents because none will admit responsibility.
Tang Meirong, 53, of Chongqing city, was sent to hospital after being hit by the cat, reports Chongqing Business News.
“I was walking on the footpath under the building, and suddenly a heavy object hit my head. I remember nothing afterwards,” she said.
A man wearing nothing but women’s high heels was the cause of a building lockdown by police in downtown McMinnville. The unidentified man was spotted sitting on a bench on the basement floor of a nearly vacant medical building Wednesday afternoon.
After a call to 911 dispatchers, two McMinnville police units responded and were assisted by deputies from the Yamhill County Sheriffs Office and the Oregon State Police. The building was locked down and surrounded, but alas, no naked man.
An Austrian computer store owner caught two teenage thieves after he put CCTV footage on You Tube.
Thomas Karer, 45, installed the video surveillance gear after a spate of thefts at his store in Grieskirchen, Austria.
It allowed him to film the two teenagers stealing a £1,000 laptop from his store.
People in China are flocking to see a pet cat which has reportedly given birth to a puppy.
The cat, in Zhengzhou city, gave birth to four kittens, one of which looks like a white poodle.
“It looks very different from the other kittens, and its mouth, nose and paws are all dog-like,” says owner Zhang Qiming.
“Also, its tail is one centimetre shorter than that of the other three kittens.”
A mother teed off by drunken golfers urinating near her house by the 18th hole resorted to videotaping the men after no action was taken on her complaints. Video of some men relieving themselves behind trees at the city-owned course was played on local and national television news.
“Many times I would say, ‘You’re on camera,’ and they’d keep right on going. They’d yell and scream obscenities at me,” Delisa Schubert said.
Schubert, her husband and daughters ages 11 and 15 live next to the Tennessee Centennial Golf Course in Oak Ridge, 20 miles west of Knoxville. She said they family moved there so the girls could improve their golf game.