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XXL BRA SPARKS HUNT FOR HEAVY CROOKSBERLIN – Police in the western German city of Aachen are searching for an obese couple who have been sneaking into an apartment building to use a woman’s private dryer.

The only evidence police found was an oversized XXL bra and a jumbo pair of men’s underpants left behind in the dryer. The owner had been on alert for the intruders since receiving a US$600 electricity bill, police said.Then one night she heard the dryer on and went into the basement to investigate.There was no one in sight but she found the bra and shorts left in mid-cycle.”The clothes are XXL so we are looking for a culprit of that size,” a police spokesman said.’BOMB’ OF A CAR HAS MAN VERY WORRIEDLONDON – A British man spent four hours holding a rusty piece of metal he feared was an unexploded World War II bomb that would detonate if he let go – only to be told he had been cradling part of an old car.As police, fire and ambulance crews rushed to the Norfolk, east England work yard where David Page had dug up the device, the terrified 40-year-old spoke to an emergency operator on his mobile phone, British newspapers said on Wednesday.”The woman police operator kept saying it would be OK but I kept saying to her, ‘You’re not the one holding the bomb’,” he said in the Daily Mail.Page, a father of five, sobbed to the woman operator: “I told her to tell my parents and the children that I loved them if anything went wrong.”JAILSICK JAILBIRD LONGS FOR ‘HOME’ROME What’s a jailsick jailbird who is under house arrest to do when he feels homesick for prison? Go back to jail, or at least try his hardest.A 34-year-old man on the island of Sardinia who was released from prison and put under house arrest felt uneasy without bars around him.So, according to the Italian news agency Ansa, he “escaped” from house arrest in Sassari on Wednesday and knocked on the door of the city’s San Sebastiano prison, where he had done time for vandalism.When guards there refused to let him back in, he complained to police, who arrested him.A judge will decide the man’s next address.- Nampa-ReutersThe owner had been on alert for the intruders since receiving a US$600 electricity bill, police said.Then one night she heard the dryer on and went into the basement to investigate.There was no one in sight but she found the bra and shorts left in mid-cycle.”The clothes are XXL so we are looking for a culprit of that size,” a police spokesman said.’BOMB’ OF A CAR HAS MAN VERY WORRIEDLONDON – A British man spent four hours holding a rusty piece of metal he feared was an unexploded World War II bomb that would detonate if he let go – only to be told he had been cradling part of an old car.As police, fire and ambulance crews rushed to the Norfolk, east England work yard where David Page had dug up the device, the terrified 40-year-old spoke to an emergency operator on his mobile phone, British newspapers said on Wednesday.”The woman police operator kept saying it would be OK but I kept saying to her, ‘You’re not the one holding the bomb’,” he said in the Daily Mail.Page, a father of five, sobbed to the woman operator: “I told her to tell my parents and the children that I loved them if anything went wrong.”JAILSICK JAILBIRD LONGS FOR ‘HOME’ROME What’s a jailsick jailbird who is under house arrest to do when he feels homesick for prison? Go back to jail, or at least try his hardest.A 34-year-old man on the island of Sardinia who was released from prison and put under house arrest felt uneasy without bars around him.So, according to the Italian news agency Ansa, he “escaped” from house arrest in Sassari on Wednesday and knocked on the door of the city’s San Sebastiano prison, where he had done time for vandalism.When guards there refused to let him back in, he complained to police, who arrested him.A judge will decide the man’s next address.- Nampa-Reuters