Sausage attack
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A BRITISH boy was in court last week charged with assault on a 77-year-old man. The pensioner had reported to the police that the 12-year-old child
Scare tactics
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A WOMAN in Germany gave a man who was attempting to steal her bag from her car a terrible fright. She had just taken a refrigerator
Poll results – August 24, 2007 – Baggage handlers strike
The question that was asked: Do you believe that a national strike by airport baggage handlers over one of the busiest weekends of the year will bring about the changes
Super Bock Surf Fest 2007
The Resident’s PAULO SILVESTRE was among the thousands who converged on Sagres for the Super Bock Surf Fest earlier this month. It was a tale of seawater showers, lack of
Child lover
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A ONE-LEGGED 60-year-old man in the United Arab Emirates is trying to reach his target of fathering 100 children by 2015 by lining up his next
Vibrating gun
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A ROBBER has been jailed for five years in England for holding up a bookmaker’s shop using his girlfriend’s vibrator disguised as a gun. He concealed
Tree thief
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A FARM owner in the US was left baffled when she returned from a week long holiday to find her 15-metre high California pepper tree was
Anxiety and irrational faith
By: MARGARET BROWN THERE IS plenty of trouble in the world. We see it every day on television and in the newspapers. It keeps the media moguls happy and gives
Recycling the human body
By: JENNY GRAINER jenny@portugalresident.com I’M RATHER proud of Portugal’s stance on recycling. Long gone are the days when we left kitchen refuse outside in buckets or, worse, in thin plastic
Crocs-away
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com IN AN effort to escape from a 12th floor apartment in Moscow, a crocodile jumped out of a window – and survived. This is apparently not