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Mutant calf born with three nostrils to be spared from slaughter

December 22nd, 2009 dailywail No comments
The cow can smell trouble coming...from three different directions

The cow can smell trouble coming...from three different directions Pic: Europics.at

A CALF has been born with three nostrils.

The mutant cow – born at a Swiss farm - will be permanently spared from the slaughterhouse after becoming a local celebrity.

Farmer Urs Herrmann said: “People are always coming to visit her – bringing nice things for her to eat and making a fuss of her.

“She is in the stable with all the other young calves and is totally healthy and fine.”

The 44-year old told the Austrian Times: “If anything, she has a better life than the others.

“She gets spoiled more than the others who get a lot less attention.”

‘After 300 yards, stop, turn around…and die’: Your sat nav could kill you, police warn

December 14th, 2009 dailywail No comments
An idiot driver turns around as traffic approaches at 50mph

An idiot driver turns around as traffic approaches at 50mph Pic: europics.at

SAT NAVS are going to kill people because idiot drivers follow their instructions ‘blindly’, police chiefs have warned.  

Dozens of motorists have been caught on CCTV turning around their vehicles in high-speed tunnels  despite the threat of oncoming traffic –  ”because their sat navs told them to”

And now furious Swiss cops have spoken out about the perils of the satellite navigation systems.

They have published traffic images from the notorious Gotthard tunnel to illustrate how crazed drivers make u-turns as traffic approaches at more than 50 mph.

Damian Meier, head of traffic police in the Swiss province of Uri, said: “This is not an isolated case. More and more drivers are asked by their sat navs to take a u-turn in the Gotthard tunnel.”

He added: “The majority of drivers taking a u-turn in the tunnel are from abroad.”

Meier told the Austrian Times the sat navs often ‘revise’ the route after entering the underpass and advise drivers to turn around and take a local bypass instead.