https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20150407/austrian-dad-steals-120-lego-figures-on-day-out Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:46:51 +0200 austrian-dad-steals-120-lego-figures-on-day-out 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20150304/man-attempts-bank-robbery-armed-with-spoon Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:16:00 +0100 man-attempts-bank-robbery-armed-with-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. https://www.thelocal.at/20150209/pensioner-stole-thousands-of-euros-of-underwear-and-booze Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:03:00 +0100 pensioner-stole-thousands-of-euros-of-underwear-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. https://www.thelocal.at/20150112/plait-thief-strikes-again-in-styria Mon, 12 Jan 2015 12:51:41 +0100 plait-thief-strikes-again-in-styria Firefighters in Lower Austria were called out to an unusual rescue operation on Sunday afternoon - not a cat stuck in a tree, but a sheep stuck on the roof of a house. https://www.thelocal.at/20141215/firemen-rescue-stranded-sheep Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:23:00 +0100 firemen-rescue-stranded-sheep 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20141211/out-of-control-ferrari-lands-in-pond Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:30:00 +0100 out-of-control-ferrari-lands-in-pond Five firemen in Steyr, Upper Austria, were called out to capture what locals believed was a dangerous snake spotted on a path by the river Enns. https://www.thelocal.at/20141126/firemen-called-out-to-catch-pumpkin-snake Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:46:24 +0100 firemen-called-out-to-catch-pumpkin-snake 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20141027/schoolgirl-12-spent-thousands-on-stolen-card Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:47:40 +0100 schoolgirl-12-spent-thousands-on-stolen-card 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”. https://www.thelocal.at/20141022/the-toilet-train-that-smells-like-space Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:37:06 +0200 the-toilet-train-that-smells-like-space 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20141008/austrian-wants-to-swap-detroit-home-for-iphone Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:10:00 +0200 austrian-wants-to-swap-detroit-home-for-iphone 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20141007/firemen-rescue-toddler-from-post-box Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:23:58 +0200 firemen-rescue-toddler-from-post-box 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20141003/austrian-fined-100-euros-for-eating-kebab Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:43:00 +0200 austrian-fined-100-euros-for-eating-kebab 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20141002/austrian-pensioner-receives-drugs-package Thu, 02 Oct 2014 16:00:02 +0200 austrian-pensioner-receives-drugs-package 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20140929/snake-in-car-scares-austrian-driver Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:52:26 +0200 snake-in-car-scares-austrian-driver 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20140925/cheeky-thieves-loot-shoe-shop Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:16:57 +0200 cheeky-thieves-loot-shoe-shop A pensioner has been arrested in Burgenland after allegedly shoplifting on as many as 120 separate occasions, in less than four months. https://www.thelocal.at/20140923/pensioner-arrested-after-shoplifting-spree Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:24:28 +0200 pensioner-arrested-after-shoplifting-spree 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20140922/man-drove-without-license-for-25-years Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:24:08 +0200 man-drove-without-license-for-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. https://www.thelocal.at/20140905/the-zombies-are-coming-to-austria Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:11:00 +0200 the-zombies-are-coming-to-austria