https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Christmas can be a tough time of year if you haven’t got someone to share it with. That’s why one pensioner decided to seek out a family to spend the most festive day of the year with, and the response was overwhelming. https://www.thelocal.de/20171122/lonely-pensioner-finds-an-adoptive-family-for-christmas-after-posting-notice-in-supermarket Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:00:24 +0100 lonely-pensioner-finds-an-adoptive-family-for-christmas-after-posting-notice-in-supermarket A German court on Monday fined three people for failing to help an old man lying unconscious on the floor of a bank, instead walking around and even stepping over him. https://www.thelocal.de/20170918/court-fines-three-thousands-for-ignoring-dying-pensioner-in-bank Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:39:13 +0200 court-fines-three-thousands-for-ignoring-dying-pensioner-in-bank Forget gardening, keep-fit classes, golf and Scrabble: this 70-year-old has a rather more unusual hobby. https://www.thelocal.de/20160830/mischievous-pensioner-terrorises-captains-on-bavarian-lake Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:26:27 +0200 mischievous-pensioner-terrorises-captains-on-bavarian-lake An elderly lady from Cologne caused quite the sensation last month when she filled in what she thought was a crossword, but was in fact an €80,000 piece of art. Her “Rhine calmness” has helped her get through the debacle, she says. https://www.thelocal.de/20160812/pensioner-rides-out-artwork-scandal-with-rhine-calmness Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:41:55 +0200 pensioner-rides-out-artwork-scandal-with-rhine-calmness The Neues Museum in Nuremberg had a bit of a disaster on Wednesday when a pensioner read the caption “Insert Words” on what she believed to be a crossword puzzle. https://www.thelocal.de/20160715/old-woman-pensioner-writes-on-art-offbeat Fri, 15 Jul 2016 19:44:01 +0200 old-woman-pensioner-writes-on-art-offbeat A 77-year-old woman from Osnabück has died in hospital after an examination machine weighing several tonnes fell on her. https://www.thelocal.de/20160129/pensioner-dies-after-hospital-machine-squashes-her Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:58:06 +0100 pensioner-dies-after-hospital-machine-squashes-her A 71-year-old woman got a big pay out in court on Thursday after a judge ruled in her favour over a very slippery orange. https://www.thelocal.de/20160129/elderly-woman-slips-on-orange-in-store-gets-12000-in-damages Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:25:23 +0100 elderly-woman-slips-on-orange-in-store-gets-12000-in-damages After throwing away €12,000 this week, a landlord in North Rhine-Westfalia thought he'd made one of the most expensive blunders of his life. But the money made it home safely, police said on Friday – and all thanks to an honest pensioner. https://www.thelocal.de/20150828/man-bins-12000-but-is-reunited-with-cash Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:10:08 +0200 man-bins-12000-but-is-reunited-with-cash A pensioner from Norway has finally found his car after he parked it in Hanover three weeks ago and then forgot what street it was on. https://www.thelocal.de/20150825/pensioner-finds-lost-car-after-three-week-search Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:22:37 +0200 pensioner-finds-lost-car-after-three-week-search Gathering bottles and turning them in for cash in Germany can be quite a lucrative business, but one retiree collected perhaps a bit more than he bargained for on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150825/pensioner-makes-12000-trash-bin-find Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:16:30 +0200 pensioner-makes-12000-trash-bin-find Good Samaritan motorists stepped in on Wednesday evening to rescue a pensioner driving an electric scooter along the Autobahn (motorway) near Frankfurt. https://www.thelocal.de/20150611/wheelchair-senior-saved-from-autobahn Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:43:29 +0200 wheelchair-senior-saved-from-autobahn Police in Hesse killed a 74-year-old pensioner on Sunday in a gun battle which erupted after the man refused to be admitted to a clinic. https://www.thelocal.de/20150518/police-shoot-pensioner-who-wouldnt-leave-home Mon, 18 May 2015 12:41:27 +0200 police-shoot-pensioner-who-wouldnt-leave-home At the age of 112, Frieda Szwillus, Germany's oldest woman has died. But the title will stay in Saxony with a new centenarian crowned queen. https://www.thelocal.de/20140925/germanys-oldest-woman-dies-at-112 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:59:00 +0200 germanys-oldest-woman-dies-at-112 Fifteen schoolchildren were injured on Tuesday when their school bus was hit by a car driven by an 82-year-old man in western Germany. The driver was seriously injured. https://www.thelocal.de/20140603/children-injured-as-pensioner-crashes-car-into-school-bus Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:01:00 +0200 children-injured-as-pensioner-crashes-car-into-school-bus A pensioner suffered third-degree burns after picking up what he thought was amber on a beach in north Germany, only to find it was a chunk of white phosphorus when it ignited in his pocket and set him on fire. https://www.thelocal.de/20140115/man-mistakes-white-phosphorus-for-amber-north-germany Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:47:00 +0100 man-mistakes-white-phosphorus-for-amber-north-germany A Berlin pensioner got into a bit of a pickle as he left his parking space on Tuesday. Not only did he ram into six other cars, he also crashed into his wife. https://www.thelocal.de/20131120/pensioner-hits-six-cars-and-wife-in-parking-fiasco-berlin Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:26:00 +0100 pensioner-hits-six-cars-and-wife-in-parking-fiasco-berlin A 74-year-old retiree in the German city of Wolfsburg tried to outrun a cop car after taking her electric wheelchair out for a drunken joy ride on the open road, police said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20121009/45447 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:58:00 +0200 45447