A boy is stuck between plush toys in the terminal, a construction worker cuts himself off the ground under his feet, a firefighter becomes an assistant hairdresser: the oddest news of the year.
Firefighters free child from a cuddly toy machine
A boy from Titusville in the US state of Florida wanted a stuffed animal from a gripping machine in February. He obviously did not feel like struggling with the device - and just climbed in.
Titusville Fire and Emergency Services
Boy in the gripper
Mason was with his family, according to the station WFTV eat in a restaurant. In the restaurant there is a grapple machine for stuffed animals. Because the boy wanted to have one of them, he climbed the report through an opening in the machine, but did not come out again.
Coincidentally, a firefighter was also privately in the restaurant. His colleagues approached and were able to free Mason from the predicament within ten minutes. The boy was able to continue dinner, it said. And a cuddly toy he should have gotten too.
Woman at bedside test in furniture store included
She had just made herself comfortable for a test-bed, when the lights went out: During the bed test, a customer was locked up in a furniture store in Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg in February.
As the police in Freiburg reported, the 41-year-old was looking for a new bed shortly before the end of business. "The furniture store closed on time and the woman with it," said the police. The customer was able to make an emergency call via mobile phone and was freed by the managing director of the furniture store.
Man finds eight million euros play money in organic waste
Even play money can push the pulse up: This shows the case of a 56-year-old in Frankfurt am Main, the mid-March supposedly eight million euros in a bio bin found.
Police Headquarters Frankfurt am Main
play money
"Well packaged and sealed in bundles of 50,000 someone had disposed of the money along with a suitcase in the bio bin," said the police. An employee of a bakery had discovered the rather genuine-looking 500-euro bills.
The 56-year-old delivered the find to the nearest police station. There was then a printed notice that it was play money.
Construction worker cuts floor under feet
There was a strange accident in Bavaria at the beginning of May: a construction worker cut off the ground under his feet - and with the cutting machine fell one floor into the depths.
DPA / Police Inspection Roding
Construction site in Pösing
The 40-year-old suffered injuries in the three-meter fall on the construction site in Pösing near Regensburg. A rescue helicopter flew him to a hospital, the police said.
Heavy rainfall in Ennepetal - foam spills out of the sewers
An involuntary foam party took place in Ennepetal in mid-August. Heavy rains in the city in North Rhine-Westphalia flushed foam from the sewage system via a gully.
Involuntary foam party
Involuntary foam party in Ennepetal: Heavy rains in the city in North Rhine-Westphalia have obviously flushed foam from the sewage system through a gully.
Parts of a road and the inlet of a stream have been polluted, said the fire department.
The creek carried the foam on top of that through the city. The foam, however, pose no threat to the population, it said in a statement of the forces. However, possible environmental damage can not be estimated. Where the foam came from is unclear. Police were reportedly investigating.
Parts of a road and the inlet of a stream have been polluted, said the fire department. The creek carried the foam on top of that through the city.
The foam, however, pose no threat to the population, it said in a statement of the forces. Where he came from remained unclear.
Firefighter washes hairdresser's hair
In a fire in a shopping center in Stuhr near Bremen, the forces not only extinguished a fire in summer, but also washed a woman's hair out.
DPA / Nonstopnews
Firefighter washes woman's hair
"I just had some highlights when the fire alarm went off," said the client of the television news agency Nonstopnews. The woman escaped outside with the other visitors to the mall.
Since the colorant is allowed to act in their hair only for a certain time, without being harmful to health, the fire department helped out. "We took the smallest tube we have, so we do not blow the hair off her head," said Matthias Thom of the fire department in Diepholz district.
Real existing "Simpsons" supermarket
You are a big fan of the "Simpsons" - and always wanted to buy real "Heat Lamp Hot Dogs" or "Lard Lad Donuts" in the "Kwik-E-Mart"? This has been possible in the US since the end of August.
Welcome to the "Simpsons" supermarket
You are a big fan of the "Simpsons" - and always wanted to buy real "Heat Lamp Hot Dogs" or "Lard Lad Donuts" in the "Kwik-E-Mart"? In the US that is now possible.
The small supermarket from the TV series has been faithfully recreated in the city of Myrtle Beach in the state of South Carolina, US media reported.
In addition to hot dogs and donuts, there are many souvenirs in the yellow house with painted "Simpsons" figures and a red roof.
The small supermarket from the TV series has been faithfully recreated in the city of Myrtle Beach in the state of South Carolina. In addition to hot dogs and donuts, there are many souvenirs in the yellow house with painted "Simpsons" figures and a red roof.
Man breaks into alligator farm and bathes with crocodiles
One man climbed over several security fences in Florida in early November, stripped down to his underpants, and then took a bath in a pool full of crocodiles.
On video footage of the incident in an alligator farm in St. Augustine was also seen how the man - dressed only in underpants and Crocs on the feet - was attacked and injured in the nocturnal action of the crocodiles.
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Farm workers discovered clothing and bloodstains next to the Nile crocodile basin in the morning. When the police were informed, they had the man already in custody. Policemen caught the bloodied victim after being alerted by local residents.