Crazy World: Baby stolen while parents slept

Baby stolen while parents slept

Parents slept in peace while kidnappers stole their newborn baby. Timeslive report that the newborn was picked up from between her sleeping parent.

This brazen act of abduction shocked both the parents, 39-year-old Samuel Leso and 31-year-old Francina.

Both the parents woke up to find their baby missing at 5 o'clock in the morning. The kidnappers cut their way into the shack in Palm Ridge extension 4, east of Johannesburg.

They were deep asleep to hear the zinc had been cut off and a hole was made in the wall of the shack to get in.

Investigation is by the local police is on.

Now a balloon ride for space tourists

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There is good news for space tourists for an out-of-the-world experience, literally.

Very soon tourists will be able to soar 22miles above the Earth dangling beneath a balloon, as reported in The Sun.

Spanish entrepreneur Jose Mariano Lopez-Urdiales, carried out several test flights and hopes these trips to start in 2013.

The 5-hour trip will cost you £90,000. Travellers will fly so high that they will be able to see the planet's curvature.

The capsule has room for 4 passengers and 2 pilots, attached to a 423ft-diameter helium balloon.

Thieves decide: Why fish when you can steal it instead?

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Somewhere in California, someone has a truck load of stolen merchandise that probably is starting to stink.

State Fish and Game wardens are investigating on Monday what they believe to be the first large-scale theft from a state fish hatchery after as many as a thousand trophy-sized trout were taken from a facility near Fresno.

Workers at the San Joaquin State Fish Hatchery found the gate pried open and blood covering the floors on Sunday. Department spokesman Patrick Foy says the trout were 3 years old and weighed three pounds each.

The trout were part of a program paid for by fishing license fees to stock lakes for fishing enthusiasts.

Wardens are now scouring California fish markets for signs of them. Trout sells for up to $7 a pound.

Street sign prank warns of 'rogue panda'

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Authorities in Flagstaff, Ariz., are assuring residents there are no rogue pandas roaming the city after some pranksters got creative with an electronic street sign.

The Arizona Department of Transportation-controlled sign was set up to warn drivers not to make left turns at a busy intersection. But motorists heading to work Monday morning got an entirely different message: "Rogue panda on rampage."

A passer-by reported the hacked sign to police at about 3 a.m. Monday.

Transportation Department spokeswoman Mackenzie Nuno says the sign was restored to its original message by 11 a.m. She says the agency has no suspects, but she noted the hackers would have needed specialized equipment to change the sign.

Flagstaff police Lt. Ken Koch tells the Arizona Daily Sun that residents can rest assured there are no problems with rogue pandas in the city.
 

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