Saturday, September 22, 2007

Bank robber falls asleep on the job

A Turkish man who broke into a Cyprus bank to steal from the ATM machine was found fast asleep on the floor by a cleaner who raised the alarm, Cypriot police announced on September 17.

The cleaner stumbled over the suspect two hours before opening time and called in the police, who turned up to catch a tired man staggering out of the building.

Bank officials said the would-be robber tried to break into the ATM machine - after entering the building through a window - but could not crack the code to access the cash.

The 30-year-old Turkish national appeared before a Nicosia court where he was remanded in custody.

'Dead' man wakes up under autopsy knife

A Venezuelan man, who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.

Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realise something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.

"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on September 14 in leading local newspaper "El Universal" .

His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor - and alive.

Sunday, September 16, 2007