QUIRKY WORLD ... Munching mice thwart fix for traffic chaos in Brussels
The city is struggling to cope with repeated closures of key road tunnels caused by crumbling concrete and years of decay. Now the Belgian capital’s regional parliament has been told repairs are being held up because original construction plans have been destroyed — apparently eaten by rodents.
The tunnels provide vital arteries across what is often described as Europe’s most traffic-congested city. But for decades the plans for their construction were stored in the pillars under a motorway bridge, for want of space elsewhere. “They may have been eaten by mice,” the former head of the city’s infrastructure agency said.
Armed police scrambled to reports of a man carrying a rifle discovered it was actually a light sabre.
Devon and Cornwall Police received a call after the man was spotted near Drake Circus shopping centre in Plymouth. It was believed the man was carrying an air rifle bag and was in possession of a rifle.
A local armed response vehicle unit was sent to the scene before officers established the man was actually carrying the Star Wars prop. The force later tweeted: “#Police job of the day, ARV sent to male with rifle in a bag in Plymouth, only a light sabre after all. May the Force be with you!”
A West Virginia man sentenced for an armed robbery in which $1 (90c) was stolen has been ordered to spend time in a correctional centre for young adults.
The Herald-Dispatch reports John Bruce Chafin, 21, of Huntington agreed to a Kennedy plea on a first- degree robbery charge, which allowed him to plead without admitting guilt.
Cabell Circuit Court Judge Chris Chiles sentenced Chafin to spend at least six months to two years at Anthony Centre for youthful offenders after suspending his 15-year prison sentence.
Police and jail records show authorities arrested Chafin on January 13 after they say he brandished a revolver at a Barboursville man, demanding the victim to empty his wallet, which contained $1.
Investigators in the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office in north Florida say they are searching for clumsy burglary suspect who was caught on surveillance video falling through the ceiling of a fried chicken restaurant.
First Coast News reported the video shows the man crashing to the floor in a heap. He’s then seen struggling to pry open a safe under a counter, using a variety of items on hand.
A dog that spent two nights stuck in a 14ft-deep sinkhole was rescued by firefighters using a makeshift harness.
Owners Ron and Megan Holmes said their golden retriever, Skye, is doing fine now despite the ordeal.
Megan Holmes said she was walking Skye around an arboretum at Penn State University in State College during a snowstorm on Monday night when she let the dog off a leash and the dog seemingly vanished.
Ron Holmes learned on Tuesday that the area, in central Pennsylvania, had sinkholes and found one and yelled into it. But he could hear only gushing water.
The couple returned later and Skye’s bark greeted them. It was “the most fantastic feeling hearing her,” Ron said. Skye “kind of sensed what was happening and was very co operative”.
With some pushing and pulling, the dog was brought to the surface.
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