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Robber pays his bill

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They say the Japanese are very polite people, but this might be taking it to the next level. Police, in Western Japan, are looking for a robber who held up a noodle bar then paid for his meal and waited for his change before making off.

The robber ate a bowl of “ramen” noodles and a side order of fried chicken at a restaurant in the city of Osaka on Wednesday, then he produced a knife forcing a waitress to hand over takings of 46,000 yen ($393).

The waitress demanded he pay for his meal, so the robber gave her 1,000 yen and waited for his 100 yen change before running away.

Now isn’t that odd?






It pays to be a light bulb changer in Birmingham

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Changing a light bulb in Birmingham is getting expensive – the cost is now over 90,000 pounds.

News that a council street and traffic lights engineer received 91,000 pounds for 2005/2006 including overtime bonuses, even though he was off sick, caused an uproar. Apparently the average pay in Britain is about 23,000 pounds a year.

Birmingham City Council’s Alan Rudge said he intended to stamp out the practice of workers getting bloated pay packets. Earlier this month, Birmingham council came under fire when news leaked that some road workers, whose job was to paint white lines on the city’s streets, earned 1,000 pounds a week.

Wow, maybe I should move to Birmingham England and get a job working for the city?

Rent a Pilgrim

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If you are a Roman Catholic and you’ve vowed to make the pilgrimage to Fatima in Portugal, famous for religious visions, but you can’t fulfill your promise you can now rent-a-pilgrim.

Pilgrim Gil will make the journey in your place for the low fee of 2,500 euros (1,671 pounds), and he’ll even send you a certificate stamped along the way to prove he walked your every step.

Carlos Gil, 42, is also a rent-a-pilgrim. He took up this practice four years ago when he suddenly “felt an urge to walk to Fatima” and said charging each client was simply a way to keep doing what he loves. Gil says “It is a romantic way for my clients to thank God for what they have, like buying a candle or a plaster statue of Fatima,”.

To guarantee to his clients that he made the trip on foot, Gil has a system of handing his customers a certificate after every journey with various stamps from places along the way.

South Koreans allowed to wear Mini-Skirts

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Girls from South Korea must be breathing a sigh of relief at this news – Hot pants and miniskirts will soon be legal in South Korea.

South Korea is in the final stages of revising an indecency law that prohibits people from wearing revealing outfits and was once enforced by ruler-wielding police during authoritarian governments in the 1970s. The laws do not match current social views.

Under authoritarian rule woman were arrested or fined for their fashion choices. Scissors were also taken to men whose hair was felt to be too long. People were also tossed in jail for unauthorized dancing. The rules have been in the books even after South Korea became a democracy in the 1980’s, however the rules were no longer enforced.

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