News for 31 March
Is this a rock or is this a rock?
An Australian man has been arrested for drink-driving after he asked police the way to Uluru - just 100 metres from the 1,115ft high rock.
Police say the 44-year-old was driving a four-wheel drive with his headlights shining on the rock when he waved them down. It happened in the dark but come on, it's the world's greatest monolith.
Anyway, he failed a breath test
BEER SPA
The world's first beer health centre has opened in the cellar of a family brewery in the Czech Republic.
Beer baths, beer massages and beer cosmetics are on offer at the spa at the Chodovar Family brewery in Chodova Plana.
The converted cellars include seven huge Victorian style baths where guests can swim in beer while enjoying a pint poured at a bathside bar.
Guests on £80 weekend packages can indulge in a range of health treatments including beer wraps, starting at £12 per session.
Owner Jiri Plevka said: "Beer can treat a range of conditions, particularly skin conditions, and the health centre should appeal to men who are put off by 'posh' traditional spas. I have heard of some places in other countries where people can swim in beer but it's just a gimmick.
Cryonic founders melt
Two founders of the cryonics movement - whose members are frozen after death - have been cremated after a freezer mishap.
The bodies of Raymond Martinot and his wife Monique were stored in a freezer in the hope modern science could one day revive them.But, 22 years after his mother's body was put into cold storage, their son discovered the freezer unit had broken down,
Rémy Martinot said he had no choice but to cremate his parents' bodies after the technical fault had seen their temperatures rise above the constant level required of -65C.
"I don't feel any more bereaved today than I did when my parents died, I had already done my grieving," he said.
Teenager carried away in undies
A US teenager may have set a new record after he was picked up and carried by a tornado for a quarter of a mile.
Matt Suter, 19, was in his family's trailer home near Fordland, Missouri, when it was hit by the twister. Matt, wearing only his boxer shorts, was hit and knocked out by a flying lamp before the tornado sucked him through the collapsing trailer walls.
Propelled by 150mph winds, he was hurled up into the air and flew over a barbed wire fence more than 200 yards away.
Matt eventually landed in soft grass in an open field, dazed and bleeding from the scalp wound, but otherwise intact.
"I've always told my girlfriend I wanted to see a tornado," he said. "But I sure didn't want to be in one."
A National Weather Service official used a GPS device to work out that he travelled 1,307ft. let that be a lesson to you, always have clean udies .. like your mother said
Retrainng Sex Workers
Prostitutes in Germany are being given the chance to retrain as geriatric nurses.
About 30 prostitutes, aged 20 to 40, are to take up a two-year training course for auxiliary nurses in North Rhine Westphalia.
The scheme, funded by the church and the EU, is aimed at easing a chronic shortfall in nurses as well as offering an alternative to prostitutes.
One trainee, Angelika, who is in her late 30s and worked in Bochum as a prostitute for six years said she had found the transition very smooth: "I'm feeling good," she said.
Rita Kühn, of the protestant church's welfare programme, said: "They are in general very good at dealing with people, in addition to which they don't get squeamish and have absolutely no fear about touching or being touched."
Retraining? I'm sure the listeners have more ideas for retraining
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Look on the Bright Side
A man whose house was flooded after a storm found a bright side by catching trout in his cellar.
Mile Tutic, from Tutici in Montenegro, amazed neighbours by catching eight trout in his cellar after a nearby river burst its banks.
He said: "It's great that I can go fishing whenever I want."
An Australian man has been arrested for drink-driving after he asked police the way to Uluru - just 100 metres from the 1,115ft high rock.
Police say the 44-year-old was driving a four-wheel drive with his headlights shining on the rock when he waved them down. It happened in the dark but come on, it's the world's greatest monolith.
Anyway, he failed a breath test
BEER SPA
The world's first beer health centre has opened in the cellar of a family brewery in the Czech Republic.
Beer baths, beer massages and beer cosmetics are on offer at the spa at the Chodovar Family brewery in Chodova Plana.
The converted cellars include seven huge Victorian style baths where guests can swim in beer while enjoying a pint poured at a bathside bar.
Guests on £80 weekend packages can indulge in a range of health treatments including beer wraps, starting at £12 per session.
Owner Jiri Plevka said: "Beer can treat a range of conditions, particularly skin conditions, and the health centre should appeal to men who are put off by 'posh' traditional spas. I have heard of some places in other countries where people can swim in beer but it's just a gimmick.
Cryonic founders melt
Two founders of the cryonics movement - whose members are frozen after death - have been cremated after a freezer mishap.
The bodies of Raymond Martinot and his wife Monique were stored in a freezer in the hope modern science could one day revive them.But, 22 years after his mother's body was put into cold storage, their son discovered the freezer unit had broken down,
Rémy Martinot said he had no choice but to cremate his parents' bodies after the technical fault had seen their temperatures rise above the constant level required of -65C.
"I don't feel any more bereaved today than I did when my parents died, I had already done my grieving," he said.
Teenager carried away in undies
A US teenager may have set a new record after he was picked up and carried by a tornado for a quarter of a mile.
Matt Suter, 19, was in his family's trailer home near Fordland, Missouri, when it was hit by the twister. Matt, wearing only his boxer shorts, was hit and knocked out by a flying lamp before the tornado sucked him through the collapsing trailer walls.
Propelled by 150mph winds, he was hurled up into the air and flew over a barbed wire fence more than 200 yards away.
Matt eventually landed in soft grass in an open field, dazed and bleeding from the scalp wound, but otherwise intact.
"I've always told my girlfriend I wanted to see a tornado," he said. "But I sure didn't want to be in one."
A National Weather Service official used a GPS device to work out that he travelled 1,307ft. let that be a lesson to you, always have clean udies .. like your mother said
Retrainng Sex Workers
Prostitutes in Germany are being given the chance to retrain as geriatric nurses.
About 30 prostitutes, aged 20 to 40, are to take up a two-year training course for auxiliary nurses in North Rhine Westphalia.
The scheme, funded by the church and the EU, is aimed at easing a chronic shortfall in nurses as well as offering an alternative to prostitutes.
One trainee, Angelika, who is in her late 30s and worked in Bochum as a prostitute for six years said she had found the transition very smooth: "I'm feeling good," she said.
Rita Kühn, of the protestant church's welfare programme, said: "They are in general very good at dealing with people, in addition to which they don't get squeamish and have absolutely no fear about touching or being touched."
Retraining? I'm sure the listeners have more ideas for retraining
...................
Look on the Bright Side
A man whose house was flooded after a storm found a bright side by catching trout in his cellar.
Mile Tutic, from Tutici in Montenegro, amazed neighbours by catching eight trout in his cellar after a nearby river burst its banks.
He said: "It's great that I can go fishing whenever I want."
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