http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/04/bbc_olympics_cx/
Monthly Archive for June, 2007
“Dwarf mechanic mistaken for ‘abducted’ boy”
German police staged a major operation to find a kidnapped child after a woman spotted a “young boy” being locked into a car boot.
The panicked woman alerted authorities as the car drove off, and police set up road blocks and dispatched patrol cars to intercept the vehicle.
But when the car was finally sighted and stopped, police found the “boy” was actually dwarf car mechanic Klaus “Shorty” Mueller, 27.
He had climbed in the boot and asked to be driven around so he could see where a strange rattling noise had been coming from.
Police in the northern city of Bremen confirmed a woman had called after she looked out her apartment window and saw a child in the boot - just before the driver slammed it shut and drove off.
The spokesman added: “A major investigation and manhunt was immediately launched and the car and its driver were apprehended. It seems the driver had been worried by inexplicable rattling noises in or near his boot. He called a mechanic, who was very small, and who climbed in the boot to get to the bottom of the problem.”
Police said the mini mechanic had often used the same method to solve the problem and had found it the best way to detect the source of strange noises.
One for the redheads on my friends list.
And a joke. I am a redhead too: no hair, just a red head…
Phew! I’m tired out now after typing the subject line, so I’ll just post the photos.
Oh, OK then: Jack and I went off to the new Wembley Stadium by coach, everything having been laid on (at a price, though not too expensive) by Norfolk FA, leaving at 3.45pm and getting back at 1.30am.
Jack and me before the match:
Before kick-off:
Jack posing:
It was all going so well at the end of regular time:
Ah…:
The new Wembley Arch by night:
Well I missed the second anniversary of The Great ezboard Disaster of 2005: the day when - depending on who or what you choose believe - a hacker managed to delete the current ezboard posts and at the same time access and delete the backups or someone running some script at ezboard on the boards [...]
We all know about ezboard’s notoriously poor backup regime that led to them losing a year’s worth of posts on a number of their boards when they claimed a hacker (who, despite the FBI being brought in - allegedly - doesn’t appear to have been identified) had managed to somehow lose all current posts and then hop [...]
The new Wembley Stadium by night; 1 June 2007
Blue and Son of Blue at the England v Brazil match at Wembley Stadium, 1 June 2007
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