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The police of Vienna is upset about dirty windows in their offices.
Now they have found the right idea to solve the problem. Prisoners should care about clean windows on their police stations.

The policemen are quite enthusiastic about their idea. They could save time and money, and the prisoners won’t be bored. “Sweating instead of sitting”, […]

The 18.000 inhabitant town of Braunau is located directly on the border to Germany.
Only the Inn river and a bridge, can be found between Braunau and its German neighbour town Simbach.

Now those two towns seems to be in a serious conflict. The reason is a six metres long, and 1 1/2 tons heavy sculpture in […]

It sounds like an excessive and wild party night for four young people from the town of Scheifling, in the north of Austrias federal state Styria.
Three boys and one girl between the age of 17 and 21 years, were partying in their home town Scheifling.

Later in the night they started to party a bit too […]

The American Nobel Prize winner of literature Ernest Hemingway who died in 1961, received a monument in the little Vorarlberg village of Schruns.
Schruns has 3.400 inhabitants, and can be found in the south of Austrias most Western federal state Vorarlberg.

The reason of such an honour for Ernest Hemingway is the occurrence that the American Nobel […]

60 cars were involved in a pile-up yesterday morning on the motorway “A1″ between Salzburg and Vienna.
One Swiss woman lost her life when she got out of her broken vehicle, and was hit by a passing car.

The police confirmed that 31 persons were injured. They were brought to the next hospitals in the vicinity. Some […]

A drunken man tried to kill his own family with a chainsaw last weekend in the Styrian district of Weiz.
The epileptic who was totally drunk had bad mood because of disagreements in an inheritance.
The 42-year-old man who stills lives with his mother, said that he is going to cut mothers feet with his chainsaw. He […]

A police station in Tirol got in sight of the public prosecution department.
According to an anonymous complaint, the police station was the location for wild parties and drinking orgies.
Now the public prosecution department has stopped its investigations.

The policemen were accused to play cards and drink beer in enormous amounts during working hours. Totally drunken policemen […]

A cemetery in the Styrian town of Sinabelkirchen in the Weiz district was devasted by 6-year-old school children.
The disrespectful four boys and one girl destroyed grave lamps and damaged gravestones.

When they were asked about their motive, they told the investigator they were angry because they had to cross the cemetery everyday from their home to […]

Living in the city of Salzburg has its price.
According to the latest news of the Austrian TV station, living in Salzburg is becoming more expensive again.
Last year the rent in Salzburg increasd by 5 percent. Salzburg is with Innsbruck and some districts of Vienna the most expensive place for living in Austria.

The president of the […]

A soldier of the Austrian army went into holiday as a man, and returned from holiday as a woman.
A sex transformation made this miracle possible.

Now the female soldier wants to stay in the army as a woman. The incident of transsexuality happened in the barracks of the Styrian town Gratkorn.
The soldier who turned from a […]

The performance “Phantom Of The Opera” in Linz, was overshadowed by an orgy of pure violence.
Not only the football sport has hooligans, who are using the event to cause troubles. Now it’s also becoming dangerous to visit opera performances in Austria.

The organiser is very concerned what happened. Many children were among the visitors. The young […]

162.000 was the total number of fare dodgers in Viennese busses, underground and tramways last year.
This is a record in the history of Vienna, and brought a fine of more than ten million EUR to the Viennese transport services.

The spokesman of the transport services told the reason about such an high number. “Not more people […]

Horrible discovery during construction work on a loft in Vienna.
Workers have found a dusty suitcase in a corner. When they opened the suitcase, they found a baby skeleton wrapped in a newspaper from the year 1976.

The workers called the police. Now they have to investigate who lived in that house 30 years ago.
The baby skeleton […]

For the main population of Austria a lottery jackpot will always stay a nice dream until the rest of the life.
A couple from Carinthia is different, and seems to have a very good lucky charm. They won the lottery jackpot within 9 years two times.

It was in 1999 when the couple won the jackpot the […]

A 66-year-old woman incinerated when she was sleeping with a burning cigarette on the sofa.
The passionate smoker fell asleep and forgot to put out her cigarette.

In the first instance the fire stayed undetected. Finally she was found 4 days after the misfortune.
The neighbour called the police because her newspapers were not taken infront of the […]

The aid organization “Aspis” defined the deportation of several Chechen asylum seekers out of Carinthia as “ethnic cleansing”.
Some of the Cechens were involved in a savage street attack in the town of Villach on a young Austrian couple some days ago. The Austrian man was heavy maltreated by the Cechens.

The minister president of Carinthia, Jörg […]

Since this years April, the trade of prostitution is officially allowed in the Lower Austrian provincial capital of St. Pölten.
But the expected invasion of prostitutes to the capital of Lower Austria did not take place. At the moment no single prostitute is doing her job in St. Pölten.

The fear of St. Pöltens religious and ethical […]

The train called “EuroCity “Franz Liszt” came from Budapest, and crossed the Austrian/Hungarian border on Saturday.
A lot of Hungarians were in the train who wanted to do some christmas shopping in Austria.

On the border the Hungarian rail guard was exchanged into an Austrian one. His first act after the border was to throw 300 Hungarian […]

Less Austrians, but more immigrants as policemen. The police of Vienna wants to increase its contigent of immigrants.
All political parties, except the Freedom Party, want to support such kind of plans, and performed a meeting how to manage that.

There should be massive advertising campaign to motivate immigrants to became policemen in Vienna. The prefered candidates […]

The 19-year-old teenager lived in the Upper Austrian town of Laakirchen, close to Austrias famous tourist destination Gmunden.
In the past months he loved to play a certain computer game, in which monsters have to be beheaded with chain saws.

The police thinks his spectacular suicide was commited because he had problems at his workplace.
It happened last […]

A 24-year-old man broke down with a cardiac arrest in the early morning hours last Sunday in Salzburg.
Before his breakdown he was rioting in a “rock house”. He attacked guests and damaged furnishings.

This was probably too much for him. Outside the event location he sustained a cardiac arrest and broke down.
The security service attempted resuscitation. […]

The believers of a little village in the Carinthian Metnitztal valley are shocked and upset about their priest.
He destroyed a wall with graves in the cemetery. Some graves were opened and the overburden was littered with bones.

The owner of the graves were not informed about the plans of the priest. They reported the priest to […]

The 15-year-old Kosovan girl, Arigona Zogaj, who escaped her deportation from Austria, is back in her school in Vöcklamarkt.
During the past two weeks Arigona was hiding herself from police to avoid her deportation. She also sent video messages to politicans and menanced to kill herself, if she is not allowed to stay in Austria.

Interior Minister […]

Is it such a bad reputation to be an inhabitant of the Viennese city district Hernals?
It seems like that, because the residents of a certain street in Hernald don’t want to belong to their city district anymore.

The street is located on the border to the city district of Währing, but still in the district area […]

The central area of Vienna, in the district of Margareten, was the location of a very unusual incident.
A man tried to dry off chili pepper in his microwave. Result: the fire brigade had to come, and residents had to wear breathing protection.

It was a very pungent smell out of the tenement on the Margaretenplatz square […]

The provincial capital of Austrias federal province Lower Austria is no location for a casino.
After a failed project for a casino in the Lower Austrian town Leobendorf, St. Pölten got into the discussion about being the perfect location for a casino.

Also St. Pölten’s mayor Matthias Stadler was very fond of the idea having a casino […]

Heavy rainfalls since the last three days bring a danger of flooding in many provinces of Austria.
Yesterday afternoon flood alert was set off in the Upper Austrian town of Steyr.

The situation along the Danube river is tensed. The Lower Austrian town of Lilienfeld was declared to disaster area. Lilienfeld was the first victim of the […]