Man falls asleep in the cinema - and calls the police
At the beginning of the year, a 30-year-old nodded off in Bochum during the late night screening in the cinema - and was locked in by the staff.
The man only woke up hours later, the police said.
At around 5 a.m. he dialed the emergency number.
According to the information, the man had attended the 11pm performance in which an Indian film was shown.
He fell asleep at some point during the Bollywood production.
The moviegoer slipped so deep into his seat that no one noticed the sleeper after the performance was over.
"Shortly after five the doors were opened for Dortmund and he went home a little sleepy - after the longest movie screening of his life," the investigators said.
Car ends up in the kitchen of a residential building
Bad surprise at breakfast time: a car landed almost at the feet of the house owner in January after a short odyssey.
According to initial investigations, the 64-year-old driver of the car was traveling on a sloping road in Aach-Hohensonne in the Eifel and actually wanted to turn right.
Instead, he drove straight ahead, as the police announced.
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Strange accident in Aach-Hohensonne: Car stuck in the wall of the house
Photo: Trier Police Department / dpa
The car drove over a garden fence and broke through the wall of the family house - landed with its hood directly in the kitchen.
According to the police, the 69-year-old landlord was just making coffee there.
Fortunately, the man was only lightly hit on the leg by small pieces of debris, and medical treatment was not necessary, it said.
According to the police, the property damage is likely to amount to approximately 90,000 euros.
According to initial investigations, the statics of the house were not affected, but the outer wall and furniture were severely damaged.
The fire brigade saves 1,300 liters of wine from a giant bottle
The helpers grabbed sandbags and pumps: In Austria, the fire brigade rescued 1,300 liters of red wine from a huge wine bottle at the end of January.
As the emergency services reported, the wine bottle that was set up in a Chinese restaurant in Lustenau in 2017 and filled with 1590 liters had leaked.
The firefighters said they built a barrier out of sandbags and wooden panels to curb the further distribution of the red wine in the building.
Then a hole was drilled in the 30 centimeter thick cork and the wine was pumped out.
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Leaking giant bottle: three meters high, 1590 liters capacity
Photo: Boris Gehrer / PFANNER & GUTMANN / dpa
The three meter high bottle was certified as a world record in March 2017 and stands prominently in a climate cabinet cooled to 16 degrees in the entrance area of the restaurant.
The wine was supposed to mature in public in the huge bottle and later be served and sold by the glass at a charity event.
Missing 85-year-old has fun in the game library at night
The search for a missing senior citizen in Rüsselsheim came to a surprising end in February: the police found the 85-year-old in an amusement arcade shortly before midnight.
Because the disabled woman, who was dependent on medication, had not returned later in the afternoon after leaving her home, the staff informed the police, as the police headquarters in South Hesse in Darmstadt announced.
Afterwards, a large-scale search with inquiries from local public transport and taxi companies, a search message on the radio and the use of a rescue dog squad started, it said.
The alleged missing person case took a turn when an acquaintance of the woman stated that she had driven her downtown to shop - and also mentioned her passion for gambling.
In fact, police officers were able to find the 85-year-old, who was dependent on a walker, in a game library in the city center.
Apparently, she was not impressed by the worries in the senior citizens' residence.
She told the officials that she would like to continue playing until the store closes.
In the early morning she returned to the home tired but happy.
Accident with a motorized sofa
The police in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia dealt with an accident with a sofa on wheels in spring: a motorcycle had been converted into a tricycle with a two-lane front axle for the strange vehicle, the investigators reported.
In front of the handlebars, there was also a two-seater sofa.
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Converted motorcycle
Photo: Eichsfeld Police Department / dpa
Between Kefferhausen and Küllstedt, the vehicle, which had neither a road license nor an official license plate, drove into a ditch for an unknown reason.
It was said that three passengers were probably injured.
At the scene of the accident, the officers found only one person involved, but witnesses reported from four people at the scene of the accident.
Undiscovered for months - doctors find a coin in their lungs
In June, doctors found a coin in the lungs of a patient with a stubborn cough that lasted for months: the man accidentally swallowed the one-cent piece while playing darts in January and then forgot it, said the St. Barbara Clinic in Hamm, Westphalia.
Pulmonologists successfully removed the foreign body after the man went to the doctor with symptoms and pneumonia.
"The patient is now very healthy and symptom-free," said a spokeswoman for the clinic.
The hospital quoted the patient as saying: “My buddy patted me on the back, gave me a brief shock and swallowed the coin I was playing with on the mouth.
What goes in finds its way out again, I thought, and I haven't given any further thought. "
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Removed coin next to an undamaged copy: lucky charm in the wallet
Photo: St. Barbara Clinic Hamm-Heessen
A little later, however, the man developed a violent cough, which is why he went to the doctor.
On an X-ray, the doctors recognized a likely metallic foreign body in the bronchial system of the lungs - and decided to act quickly.
What exactly was in his lungs was a mystery to the patient until the procedure.
"He joked with the anesthetist about whether they should make bets," said the clinic's spokeswoman.
The patient now carries the battered coin with him in his wallet - as a good luck charm.
Vienna fire brigade rescues suspected burglars from house facade
The escape via the balcony failed: a suspected burglar in distress was rescued from a house wall in Vienna with a turntable ladder in autumn.
Local residents discovered the exhausted man on the facade in the early hours of the morning, the police said.
The fire brigade moved in with a jumping sheet, rescuers then brought down those calling for help with a turntable ladder.
Then it turned out that the 25-year-old was surprised by the resident when breaking into an apartment on the third floor and fled via the balcony.
According to the information, the police secured several hundred euros in cash and arrested the man.
Norwegian forgets wife in motorway parking lot
After a toilet break, she suddenly stood alone at the rest area: At the end of October, a Norwegian forgot his wife on a motorway parking lot in Lower Saxony.
According to the police, the man drove with his son, but without his wife, from the rest area near Göttingen back onto the A7.
After a visit to the toilet, the woman found that the two would have made their further journey without her.
The family was reportedly coming from Spain with a pick-up on the way home.
A customs officer, who happened to be at the rest area, looked after the abandoned and started a search.
The car was finally stopped about 50 kilometers north, it said.
The officers said that the husband and son answered the police's question about the wife's whereabouts quite naturally with "She sleeps in the back seat".
Only after a second inquiry did the two turn around and notice their disappearance.
The family was then reunited in the village of Mengershausen on the A7.
According to the police, she took it "overall with humor".
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