Quirky World: Vienna bartender discovers there’s a high price to pay for belching too loud
Vienna visitors beware: Burping too loud could come at a price.
City bartender Edin Mehic was fined €70 after belching in the proximity of a policeman while enjoying the scene at the Prater fun park. Displayed on his Facebook page, the ticket notes that Mehic violated “public decency with a loud belch next to a police officer”.
Though it was emitted earlier this month, the belch continues to resonate — more than 100 people have vowed to attend a Loud Belch Flashmob planned for Saturday near the scene of the crime.
A pilot walked away without injury after his small plane clipped parked cars and crash-landed on a Los Angeles street.
Nobody on the ground was hurt as the single-engine plane crash-landed near Whiteman Airport in Pacoima, smashing the roofs and windscreens of two parked cars before winding up in the street with its right wing broken off.
Ian Gregor of the Federal Aviation Administration said the Mooney M20 plane tried to return to the airport shortly after departing. The pilot said he was on landing approach when a wind gust blew him off course.
Police have released an image of a suspect wanted in connection with an assault — complete with drawn-on moustache.
The Met said the suspect, wearing a pink shirt, appeared to be in fancy dress when he attacked two men and a woman at a party at the Tudor Barn pub in Eltham, south-east London.
The CCTV image shows the man with a curled-tip moustache and “soul patch” tuft of hair below the lower lip, while he is described as being of large build and around 6ft tall.
One in five smaller companies do not provide enough toilets for staff, threatening the bottom line of their finances, according to a new study.
Around one in five small businesses are not meeting legal requirements, leaving employees having to wait to use the loo, it was found.
A survey of 2,000 workers by Initial Washroom Hygiene showed that more than half regularly had to wait to use an office toilet, wasting an average of seven minutes a week.
Computers can be programmed to measure boredom or interest by watching people fidget, a study has found.
The findings could pave the way for “empathic” robots or online teachers that can tell when a pupil is not paying attention, scientists at Brighton and Sussex Medical School said.
Researchers showed that boredom levels can be assessed by measuring “non-instrumental” small body movements — in other words, fidgeting. When people are thoroughly absorbed in what they are watching or doing, they tend to fidget less.
A British cathedral sought to reassure visitors that they could still view a massive sculpture following a Facebook post by the statue’s creator saying the church had moved it because people kept bumping into it while texting.
The Salisbury Cathedral said in a tweet under the Twitter handle @SalisburyCath: “Don’t worry, you can still see ‘The Kiss’ at the Cathedral. We’ve moved the sculpture onto the lawn #Relationships.”
“The Kiss” is a 20-foot sculpture of clasping hands by artist Sophie Ryder. Ryder posted a video on Facebook of a crane moving the statue, with the comment “We had to move ‘the kiss’ because people were walking through texting and said they bumped their heads! Oh well!!”
Several social media users poked fun at the statue’s relocation to the cathedral lawn. Visitors were originally meant to follow a path through the clasped hands.
GrumpyGitRant (@GRumpGitRant) said in a tweet: “It’s safe now to visit #salisbury cathedral. The kiss statue better known as the #claspedhands is no longer a danger.”
An unexplained high-pitched tone has kept residents of a Portland suburb awake at night for at least a week, confounding the best efforts of police and firefighters to pinpoint its source, officials said.
Adding to the mystery is the fact that the noise, a steady, whistle-like note resembling a flute, has only been reported after dark in Forest Grove, a rustic community of 22,500 located about 40 km west of Oregon’s largest city.
Former residents say they remember a similar sound echoing through the night air several decades ago, according to reports filed with Forest Grove Fire and Rescue.
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