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
Cry wolf
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com POLICE IN Japan arrested a man for calling the police and fire brigade a total of 388 times in the space of 14 months. The man,
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
Dog-nappers
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A SPECIALIST sniffer dog that had been kidnapped in Mexico City was found abandoned five days later in a park and was reunited with its handlers.
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
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