Thieves who stole 16 metric tonnes (17.6 short tonnes) of ham and bacon from a warehouse in Australia left behind a message taunting the business just weeks before the holiday season.
``Thanks ... Merry Christmas,'' the crooks daubed on a wall of the Zammit Ham and Bacon Curers warehouse in suburban Sydney as they made off with their haul.
Owner Anthony Zammit said that when he arrived for work on December 3rd he found a hole in a wall of the building where the thieves appeared to have entered. The stolen meat was worth up to 100,000 Australian dollars (US$88,000; euro 60,000), he said.
It appeared the thieves had manhandled the meat _ several fully loaded pallets worth of it _ through the hole and onto a refrigerated truck, local media reported.
Police Inspector Rodney Ormes said the crime should not be taken lightly. ``You're talking about a business that's been a victim of a serious crime, it's lost a significant amount of Christmas stock.''
Zammit said he was offering a A$5,000 (US$4,420; euro3,000) reward for anyone who helped to recover the meat, and that his company would work overtime to make sure all its Christmas orders were filled.
``We're working 24 hours a day, seven days a week and (have) put on extra staff,'' he said. ``We won't let anyone down.''
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
German woman becomes mom at 64
A German woman aged 64 has given birth to a healthy baby girl, her first child after years of unfruitful attempts and false pregnancies, a news portal reported on December 2nd.
"Mother and child are doing well," said doctor Elias Karam at the Aschaffenburg clinic in southern Bavaria, quoted by the Internet site of the Der Spiegel weekly.
The baby was born on Thursday and weighed two kilograms (4.4 pounds), the report said.
While the woman became the oldest German to give birth to a child, it was far from a world record.
At the end of 2006, a Spanish woman aged 67 gave birth to twins, breaking the record made the year before by another twin-bearer, this time a 66-year-old Romanian.
The German gave birth after a 25-year-old lady donated ovules but used the sperm of her husband, who is also aged 64, Spiegel Online reported.
The ovule operation happened abroad because it is banned in Germany, the report said.
"This woman came to me because she needed my help. As a doctor, I gave it without question," said Karam.
"Mother and child are doing well," said doctor Elias Karam at the Aschaffenburg clinic in southern Bavaria, quoted by the Internet site of the Der Spiegel weekly.
The baby was born on Thursday and weighed two kilograms (4.4 pounds), the report said.
While the woman became the oldest German to give birth to a child, it was far from a world record.
At the end of 2006, a Spanish woman aged 67 gave birth to twins, breaking the record made the year before by another twin-bearer, this time a 66-year-old Romanian.
The German gave birth after a 25-year-old lady donated ovules but used the sperm of her husband, who is also aged 64, Spiegel Online reported.
The ovule operation happened abroad because it is banned in Germany, the report said.
"This woman came to me because she needed my help. As a doctor, I gave it without question," said Karam.
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