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Spy falls from sky, doesn't die
A "Peeping Tom" got more than an eyeful trying to spy on a woman taking a bath in a high-rise - he fell 10 floors.
The man was a neighbor of the 28-year-old woman and had apparently scaled the outside of the apartment block to shoot film of her with his mobile phone camera, police said.
Emergency crews at the scene yesterday morning say the man only survived because his fall was broken by a tree at the foot of the apartment block.
A police spokesman said the man was in hospital in critical condition today. He is expected to face criminal charges if he recovers.
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It's a rap!
A Police Swat team raced to a shootout between armed drug dealers - only to find they were gangsta rappers making a music video.
Residents in Dortmund, Germany, called police when they thought they saw cocaine dealers having a gunfight outside their homes.
But red-faced police found nine men aged between 22 and 36 with fake pistols. The "cocaine" was sugar and flour in transparent plastic bags.
A police spokesman said: "They really did look like they were gangs tooled up for a deadly fight."
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Singapore man with armpit fetish gets 14 years' jail, caning
A Singapore man with a fetish for smelling womens' armpits has been sentenced to 14 years in jail and 18 strokes of the cane, legal officials said Friday. Ariffin has a fixation for touching or smelling women, particularly their armpits, and was convicted of molesting 23 women