Suspect cuffed to chair escapes
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A man in police custody who was handcuffed to a chair for questioning is missing.
Authorities from Buffalo police station in the US are in a frantic search for 58-year-old John Caesar who was arrested last week on charges of theft. He allegedly stole money from a restaurant, reported 'San Francisco Chronicle'.
Officials say he was handcuffed to a chair in the police station when he escaped. Police have sent out alerts asking people to inform of anyone seeing a person handcuffed to a chair.
Lawyer drops his trousers
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An Austrian lawyers reportedly dropped his trousers while his client was being interrogated by two women investigators.
Letting the trousers slip to his knees, the attorney sat on the desk with his briefs exposed in the police station in Mayrhofen.
Tiroler Tageszeitung, a Austrian newspaper, reported that his client was suspected of a sex crime, reported 'San Francisco Chronicle'.
The local bar association has been informed.
Human poo fertiliser linked to stomach illness
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A parasite that has been causing serious stomach illness across Sydney has been attributed to human faeces.
According to 'News.com.au', doctors fear the Sydney Water Biosolids Strategy, which turns 180,000 tonnes of human waste into fertiliser yearly, could be behind the emergence of stomach bug, Blastocystis hominis, usually found in dirty water in Third World countries and spread via faeces. It causes cramps, extreme pain, diarrhoea, weight loss and fatigue.
Switzerland and Austria have banned the use of sewerage sludge as fertiliser, while in Sweden and parts of Germany, supermarkets do not stock products treated with biosolids.
Professor Thomas Borody, a gastroentrologist, was quoted as saying that there needs to be an investigation into the biosolids programme to give the public certainty that human faeces is not infecting our food supply.
"Faecal matter transmits viruses that give you diarrhoea. What worries us more is the sporadic case of Hepatitis B and C when you do not know how it has been caught. Some people have never used needles," he added.
Sydney mum Amity Smith was told repeatedly by doctors that the cause of her distended stomach, extreme pain, cramping and fatigue was irritable bowel syndrome. At last she had a check up done which revealed that she had two parasites, dientamoeba fragilis and blastocystitis hominis, in her gut.
"The doctor said it was transferred through the faecal-oral route, from eating contaminated food or drinking water that hasn't been treated properly in Third World countries, but I haven't been travelling to any Third World countries," she said.
Child's head stuck in cooker
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A three-year-old boy from New Delhi, India, who got his head stuck in a pressure cooker, was saved after an exhausting two-hour operation.
Shivam was playing when he accidently stuck his head inside the cooker.
The parents rushed the child to a nearby nursing home, which was unsuccessful in its attempts. He was then rushed to Bhagvan Singh Hospital where a team of 12 doctors used an equipment like saw and screwdriver to save the child, reported 'MidDay'. In the meticulous procedure, doctors used a huge quantity of cotton to ensure the child's head is not hurt.
The entire process took about two hours.
Man survives trash truck compactor
A homeless man survives after being compacted thrice in a garbage truck.
The 45-year-old was inside the dumpster when the garbage truck lifted it up and dumped the contents inside in a North Highlands street. Luckily for him the dump truck was not full so it did not squish him when it compacted, reported 'Katla.com'.
It was only when the truck set the dumspter back that the driver saw the man's legs and he was afraid he got a crime to answer for. As he thought someone possibly got killed inside the garbage. However, the man escaped with neck and back injuries.
Fatal accident between sisters kills one
Sisters driving separate vehicles collide head-on in a deadly crash.
Gabrielle Matthes, 17, died after her car collided with a pick-up truck driven by her sister, Megan, reported 'Katla.com'.
The sisters were close to home when the mishap occured. Gabrielle was returning from school while her sister was returning home from a track practice.
Megan and her passenger only suffered minor injuries.