Police in Bavaria, Germany were called out to an unusual robbery on Saturday after an Austrian man was spotted pinching Lego figures from the Legoland amusement park.
Most people would have known such an enterprise was doomed to fail - but not the 24-year-old man who attempted to rob a Vienna bank ‘armed’ with a stainless steel spoon.
A 74-year-old woman from Leoben in Upper Austria has been charged on suspicion of having carried out 33 robberies over the past two years - stealing mainly lingerie and booze.
Police are appealing for witnesses after a strange man cut off a seven-year-old’s long plaited hair as she was on her way to school in eastern Styria last week.
A 36-year-old man who lost control of his Ferrari F430 Spider ended up driving it into a pond in the Carinthian village of Wernberg on Wednesday night.
A 12-year-old schoolgirl from Carinthia stole a friend’s father’s debit card and went on a spending spree, racking up purchases amounting to several thousand euros.
Austria’s national railway ÖBB is giving 250 of its commuter trains a facelift - with new toilets that will be decorated with mountain, ocean, space or lemon tree themes and have an “associated fragrance”.
An Austrian man who bought a house in the bankrupt US city Detroit has said he is willing to trade his property for an iPhone 6 after failing to sell it.
A three-year-old boy who was playing hide and seek chose a hiding place that was so good he couldn’t escape from it on Monday evening - after climbing inside a large postal box and getting stuck.
A takeaway kebab after a night out turned out to an expensive snack for a 19-year-old Austrian in Wiener Neustadt after he was fined €100 for “obstructing pedestrians” at 3am.
The post has something for everybody, according to an Austrian Post slogan, but one pensioner received slightly more than she bargained for when she discovered she’d been sent a package of hashish from Holland.
A 19-year-old man from Upper Austria had a scare when he was driving home to Wels on Saturday night - as a 40 cm long reptile crawled out of a vent in his car and slithered across the passenger door.
Thieves with an expensive shoe habit broke into a shop in the Arena shopping centre in Mattersburg (Burgenland) and stole 1,000 pairs of footwear, with an estimated worth of around €100,000.
A 55-year-old German man has been caught driving without a license in Vorarlberg - and although he initially claimed he had one, police found he hadn’t owned a driver’s license for the past 25 years.
Find it hard to motivate yourself to go for a run? How about if a gang of zombies is chasing after you? Austria’s first ‘zombie run’ is coming to St Pölten on September 20th.
