Man glues ex-girlfriend's fridge

US: In a strange development, a boyfriend broke into his partner's home only to glue the refrigerator shut, claim Pennsylvaina police officials.

The woman called the nearest police station and reported a break-in during her absence.

She also realised that the intruder had not only glued her refrigerator shut, but also a utensil drawer. Glue was spread over her PC keyboard.

Police investigations led them to the woman's former boyfriend.

The 42-year-old man was charged Monday with burglary, trespassing, stalking and criminal mischief.
 
McDonald’s staff sacked for adding extra chocolate topping

UK: A McDonald's emploee was given £3,000 in out of court settlement after she was sacked for sprinkling extra chocolate on a friend's McFlurry, reports Daily Mail.

She was charged with gross misconduct for what the firm termed as 'giving away free food'.

The 19-year-old girl did a small favour for her colleague but it was described as a major misconduct by her employees when they sacked her. She admits that when a colleague who was buying the dessert asked for a generous sprinking of chocolate over her McFlurry, she did giv e a little more but then she claims that there is no standard and precise measure and the amount of chocolate topping does vary among clients.

The teenager decided to take her employers to an employment tribunal. She was not only awarded £3,000 in out of court settlement but also termed an 'exceptional' employee.
 
Students hold teachers hostage for 21 hours

KOLKATA: About 29 students in a KOlkata school were demanding for their answer scripts to be re-evaluated.

The same number of students have failed the elegibility exam held before the class 12 board exam to be held around March next year, reports NDTV.

The students of Rishi Aurobindo Balika Vidyalaya in south Kolkata started pressurising their principal and other teachers to give them passing marks so that they could appear for their board exams held by Higher Secondary COuncil. The students who failed claimed that they had been failed 'wrongfully', according to the news channel.

The students even claimed that the institute had lost their answer sheets.

The seige continued from about 3pm in the afternoon till 11am the next morning when the HSC ordered a re-examination for those students who had been failed in the pre-board test.

The teachers of the school said that it would set a very bad precendent.
 
Man, 82, chokes to death on dentures

SINGAPORE: As an 82-year-old man drank a glass of milk, little did he realise that it was to be the last meal of his life.

That's because when he had finished about half the milk, his dentures slipped into his throat, reports a Singaporean website Your Health.

The old man's wife told the website that halfway through his drink the man started flaying his hands frantically and made choking sound even as his lips started turning purple.

When his wife realised what was happenening, she started panicking and ran to her neighbour's place to get help.

By the time everyone rushed to the old man and called emergency services, he had unfortunately choked to death.
 
Teacher beats up brutally, student dies

INDIA: In the Indian pilgrimage city of Varanasi, a grade 10 student was so brutally beaten by his teacher that he succummbed to his injuries.

A doctor was immediately called in by the institute management to treat the boy but they could not save him and he died in the school campus, reports The Times of India.

The news of the student's death spread like widfire in the city and the city administration had to use its might to being the raging public under the control.

The teacher who used capital punishment was arrested and the situation was brought under control.
 

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