On the lighter side
It’s Friday, so it must be the lighter side again. Here are a few stories from the world of the wild and weird.
Firstly when booking a holiday, make sure you check your spelling or you could end up in the wrong city entirely as a family recently found.
The three Norwegian tourists believed they had booked for a trip to the island of Rhodes, but they ended up taking a journey from Oslo, via London, to Rodez in Southern France.
According to airport authorities at Rodez some 10 tourists make the same mistake every year.
In the category of “I can’t believe you can be that stupid” comes the story of a burglar who decided it would be a great idea to give the police, in Northwest England, a clue as to his identity.
The 18 year old scrawled his name in black marker pen on a wall after the drunken burglary in which they let off fire extinguishers and smashed crockery.
The police were amazed to find “Peter Addison was here!” along with his gang’s name daubed on the wall: “The Adlington Massiv!” He also added “R Gay” to a poster saying “Garden Birds of Britain.”
This crime is up there with the dumbest of all in the criminal league table. There are some pretty stupid criminals around but to leave your own name at the scene of the crime takes the biscuit. The daftness of this lad certainly made our job a lot easier.
Inspector Gareth Woods
Addison was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay 1,070 euros, in compensation and 30 euros costs, while his accomplice Mark Ridgeway was sentenced to 60 hours of unpaid work, a 12-month community order and 30 euros costs.
And finally Vietnam’s public servants have been told to clean up their act as the government has responded to complaints by its citizens.
The state media has reported that they have been told to stop shouting at people, refrain from cooking in government offices and to improve their manners.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung signed the new set of directives on government “office culture” which came into effect this week.
The 84 million citizens of Vietnam have been subject to an array of committees to obtain anything from ID cards for schools to residency permits. However it is hoped that the “authoritarian attitude” of the 1.3 million state employees will come to an end.
Friday, September 7th, 2007 and is filed under Views on News.
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