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World Cup 2010: This stunning model will PAY you to watch the matches from South Africa with her…but she keeps the remote

June 12th, 2010 dailywail 1 comment

World Cup weirdo: This sexy model will pay you £100-a-day to watch the football from South Africa with her

A WORLD CUP mad model has offered to pay a male fan £100-a-day to watch the football with her – and explain what’s going on.

Pretty Daiyu Fang, from Beijing, China, has been turned down by all her girlfriends and has now placed an internet ad for a companion to watch the whole tournament with her.

“I have money but football isn’t very popular in China and people are too busy working,” explained Daiyu – who is determined to see every game beamed from South Africa.

“My only rules are I get to keep the remote control and there is absolutely no kissing no matter how exciting it gets on the pitch,” she told the Austrian Times.

Prolific cashpoint thief reveals motive for crime spree: ‘I wanted to steal lots of money from other people’s bank accounts’

May 25th, 2010 dailywail Comments off

'Many of the ATMs looked quite a lot like this one,' explains elephant-brained Yin Zhao

A CHINAMAN is facing five years in jail after using his incredible memory for numbers to steal £20,000 from ATMs.

Yin Zhao, 27, can recognise any PIN or card number at a single glance and keep it stored in his memory for years, say police in Chengdu, central China.

He managed to pocket a small fortune in a two-year crime spree using debit and credit cards left behind in ATMs by forgetful owners.

Yin, seen here being taken back to a cash point in handcuffs by police to publicly show them how he did it, explained: “I checked the balance and it was more than I earn in a month.

“I reset her password and took all the money out. It was so easy I just couldn’t stop.”

The former computer added: “I would stare at every person coming in to use the ATM, and could tell immediately who was forgetful, and might leave the card in the machine.

“I can remember numbers I saw a year ago just for a second or two over someone’s shoulder.

“I just have that kind of memory,” he said, according to a report in the Austrian Times.

Military experts hail new hand grenade made from chillies that leaves victims ‘blind and struggling for breath’

April 22nd, 2010 dailywail Comments off

The chilli hand grenade can temporarily blind its victims (Europics.at)

ARMS experts have developed a non-lethal hand grenade loaded with the world’s most powerful chillies.

Military technicians in India have developed the new crowd control grenade packed with ground seeds from the Bhut Jolokia, officially recognised as the hottest chilli on the planet by Guinness World Records.

The grenade is packed with seeds from the Bhut Jolokia chilli - the hottest in the world

When deployed the grenade showers the targets with a dust so spicy that in trials subjects were blinded for hours and left with breathing problems.

Military leaders say it will be a major breakthrough in riot control or smoking out criminals and terrorists from their hiding places.

“The chilli grenade is a non-toxic weapon and when used would force a terrorist to come out of his hideout.

“The effect is so pungent that it would literally choke them,” lead scientist R.B. Srivastava at India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation told the Austrian Times.

Beware of the drunk pedestrians: Forget drink drivers…motorists in Romania warned of inebriated locals wandering the streets

March 8th, 2010 dailywail Comments off

 

One of the garish new signs in Pecica, Romania, that warns drivers of drunk pedestrians crawling the streets (Europics.at)

TOWN hall chiefs in Eastern Europe have given up on trying to stop drink drivers – and are now warning them about drunk pedestrians instead.

Road safety bosses in Romania – where accidents involving alcohol are at record levels – have put up traffic signs warning motorists of drunks wandering the streets.

Mayor Petru Antal ordered the signs – saying ‘Attention – Drunks’.

They come complete with an image of a reveller on his knees with a bottle and have been put up in Pecica, where officials have virtually given up on boozy locals ever following the law.

“We are a border town and have lots of cars thundering through here all the time,” Mayor Antal told the Romanian Times. 

“But we also have a very vibrant nightlife and the two don’t mix.

“We have to target the drivers because by the time they get to this state the pedestrians are beyond caring.”

Man tries to outrun police on a motorised beer crate

March 1st, 2010 dailywail Comments off

The bike is made of a beer crate strapped to a powerful engine, with what looks like a bomb at the back (Europics.at)

A BARMY motorist has been banned by police after converting a beer crate into a mini quad bike.

The micro machine was given its last orders after Wolfi Maier, 24, tried to outrun cops on the booze machine in Dautphetal, Germany.

The biker said he had only just finished the vehicle and claimed it was on the way to a test drive at a private racing track.

“It looked good but it was not licensed to travel on the road – so we confiscated it,” one officer said.

“The vehicle featured a tuned-up engine that normally only goes about 15mph but this was much quicker.”

He added: “It would certainly make drink driving more risky.”

Police told the Austrian Times the vehicle could yet be returned if the owner promised not to use it on the public roads again.

Pair of clowns fined £110 for speeding

February 25th, 2010 dailywail Comments off

The pair were late for a fancy dress party when they were caught speeding (europics.at)

POLICE stopped a couple of jokers when they zoomed through a speed trap in full clown costumes.

Driver Martina Oberle, 31, had the smile wiped off her face after she was fined £110 for speeding in Moerschwil, Switzerland.

Officers initially thought Martina and pal Bettina Blauch, 26, who were wearing blonde wigs and with full clown make up, had dressed up for a prank.

But they were actually late for a fancy dress party when they were caught doing 60mph in a 45mph zone.

“I saw the flash and though ‘S**t – that’s going to look strange to the police’,” Martina told the Austrian Times.

The mane event: Deranged horse gets itself stuck in a sewer

February 18th, 2010 dailywail Comments off

The horse had an irrepressible curiosity about the workings of the German drainage system (Europics.at)

It looks like someone is going to need a new mane sewer after this fully grown horse fell through a manhole cover in a freak accident.

Charley – a 12-year-old riding horse – saddled firefighters with a headache when the drain cover gave way after he returned from a morning canter with his owner Boris Fretz, 27, in Hewingsen, Germany.

Charlie was so excited by his time in the sewer he needed a lie down to recover

Winching gear lifted the 16 hand high beast free from the gully after two hours of being calmed by vets and animal lovers.

“Amazingly Charley was exhausted and filthy but absolutely fine after some hay and a good clean,” one firefighter told the Austrian Times.

Thieves take 48 hours to steal statue of life-sized policeman intended to ‘deter crime’

February 14th, 2010 dailywail Comments off
 
 

This statue of a policeman about to pull his gun was stolen less than 48 hours after being installed as an anti-crime measure

THIEVES walked off with this life-sized statue of a policeman used to deter crooks at a shopping centre in Limburg, Germany.

The model – showing an officer about to pull his gun – was supposed to make thieves think twice before chancing their arm.
 
But less than 48 hours after it was installed crooks copped the 80lb statue as a trophy to show off their skills, say police.
 
“They clearly weren’t fooled by it.
 
“We’ve got a real one down there now,” one officer told the Austrian Times.
 

 

 

‘I feel like a 17-year-old boy’ says hungry Russian after weight-loss operation

February 8th, 2010 dailywail Comments off

The fat 49-year-old before weight-loss surgery (Europics.at)

ONE of the world’s fattest men has spoken of his his joy after surgeons sliced a whopping 264lbs of fat from his body.

The 49-year-old, from Voronezh, Russia, now tips the scales at a trim 19 stones and is literally half his old weight, reports Russia’s Life.ru news website.

Petr F – seen here before and after the four hour op – says he was so fat he could no longer sleep on his back, could barely walk and had abandoned any hope of a sex life.

Now he says he’s going on a strict diet to shed another few pounds to get back to his ideal weight of 13 stones.

“I feel like a 17-year-old boy again,” he said.

 

The man with his pants around his ankles before and after the surgery

Meet the five-year-old who can beat you at cards…without even using his hands

February 3rd, 2010 dailywail Comments off

CARD TRICKS: The boy can beat adults using just his feet (Europics.at)

POKER players are used to keeping their cards close to their chest.

But this five-year-old prefers to keep them somewhere else…between his toes!

Little Xiao Tao has become a dab hand at snap, even though he has to use his feet to play.

The five-year-old lad, from Hangzhou, eastern China, baffled medics when he was born with tightly clenched hands and feet.

Now surgeons at the Tong De Hospital are restoring the damaged digits through a series of operations.

Tao has already learned to use his feet to play, eat with chopsticks, and comb his hair and now doctors say his hands will recover too.

“He is a clever boy and learning to use his new skills fast,” proud mum Xiao Wu, 26, told the Austrian Times.