Airline makes trolley dollies swim for their jobs
A Croatian airline is under fire for making would-be stewardesses strip down to swimsuits and show their skills in the water.
Officials at Dubrovnik Airlines say the staff has to be fully trained for all situations and have put out job ads saying that being able to swim is a fundamental qualification for the job.
And they have set up a company jury who will watch potential stewardesses take a special swimming test before they can start work, newspaper Vecernji List reported.
But the ads have caused outrage with many Croatians blasting the company’s policy as sexist, especially as pilots do not have to undergo the same water tests.
Trainee stewardess Mirna Perovic from Zagreb said, “It’s just an excuse for dirty old men to look at young girls in bikinis.”
Belgium to introduce self-destructing briefcases
Belgium could become the first country to introduce self-destructing briefcases to combat attacks on security vans.
Interior Minister Patrick Dewael said his staff is conducting talks with security and technology firms to develop cases that self-detonate when in the wrong hands.
Dewael added that signs on security vans warning that the cases within would automatically destroy their contents if removed would deter armed robbers.
Maxime Vanden Daele, a spokeswoman for secure transport company Brink’s, said: “We are hoping Belgium will become the first country to make the use of such cases compulsory.”
Autobahn turned to sludge
Hundreds of cars got stuck on a German autobahn when heavy rains turned the freshly laid tarmac into sticky sludge.
More than 200 cars traveling on the A20 autobahn in the northern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern were damaged when they became trapped.
A police spokesman said, “People are livid and even those that didn’t get stuck will have major damage to their cars, which will cost thousands to repair, when the sludge dries and cannot be removed.”