TRACK 18

quirky news
Unusual news stories from aroun

Tasty Ending
A

bout twenty inmates

in a maximum
security jail in Hobart,
Tasmania have ended their
protest. The prisoners were
demanding an improvement
in conditions within the jail.
At the beginning of the siege,
they made 24 demands but
finally agreed to end their
protest after they were given
15 pizzas, 20 litres of Coca-Cola
plus garlic bread.

d the world.

Unusual
Punishment

man who referred to the police as pigs

has been given a very strange punishment
in Auckland, New Zealand. He was ordered
to spend a day at a pig farm so that he could learn
the difference between police officers and the
animals in question. He also had to write an essay
on his experiences on the farm. He wrote that he
was very drunk at the time and that, since then,
he has given up drinking. However, in spite of his
apology, he did add that the word pig is in the
Oxford English Dictionary and is commonly used
to describe the police, albeit in a derogatory way.

GLOSSARY

Criminal Gent
A

Give me all
your money,
please.

good-mannered mugger has been

jailed in Austria. The gentleman robber
grabbed the victims bag but returned
it when he noticed that she had fallen over. He
then apologised and explained that he was
desperate for money. He helped the elderly
woman search for her keys. An onlooker
called the police and he was arrested. The
victim pleaded with the judge not to send him
to jail saying, When he saw me fall, he came
back. Criminals just dont do that anymore.

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an inmate n
a prisoner
a siege n
a situation in which the police or
soldiers surround a place in order to
force people to come out
a pig n inform
an insulting term used to refer to
the police
an essay n
a short piece of writing on one
subject written by a student
albeit exp
although; a word used to reduce
the significance of what you have
just said
derogatory adj
speaking badly / disrespectfully
about someone or something
mugger n
a person who robs people in the
street often with violence
to apologise vb
to say sorry
to search for exp
to look for
an onlooker n
a person who watches something
while it happens (often in the street)
to plead with phr vb
if you plead with someone, you
ask that person for something
desperately

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QUIRKY NEWS

Unusual news stories from around the world.