Bizarre news #4: frozen birds, spitting nerds

by Michal Kašpárek on January 23, 2009

Fresh dose of unusual cases investigated by the metropolitan police.

Birds may be the fans of the global warming after all

A man walking trough the banks of Svratka river noted a weak heron on January 14th. He called constables, which later found out that the bird had its pecker frozen.

An ornithologist cooperating with the metropolitan police rescued the heron and explained that the bird had probably attacked the ice on the frozen river, believing that releflections of street light are in fact fishes.

Two days later constables helped to rescue a duck frozen to the surface of Svitava river.

So-called whitch cursed constables, ended in asylum

A worried woman contacted the metropolitan police on January 15th, because her neighbor was destroying the equipment of their shared lobby. Constables found out that the woman was unusually agressive, spitting and kicking around and also screaming incomprehensible sentences, probably magic formulas. She smelled badly, because she was smeared with garlic. There was no other way than to contact the psychiatric hospital and transport the woman to there.

On January 20th, security guards of Vaňkovka shopping mall noticed a drunk man intentionally clashing with other people and spitting on them. The guards made him leave the mall several times, but the man kept returning. Constables later checked the identity of the nerd and found out that he was from Poland and also that he had no id.

The man is now investigated by the foreign police.

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