Weird News

Exams postponed for World Cup

Exams in Saudi Arabia are being postponed next year so soccer crazy youngsters can enjoy the World Cup.

The Saudi Education Ministry announced changes to school and university timetables in order to make way for the soccer tournament in Germany.

In a statement it said it would be a shame if students were unable to enjoy the competition properly because of their exams.

It added that it would also be detrimental to their grades if they spent too much time in front of the TV instead of studying.

Instead they have rearranged the exam timetables to prevent clashes with final exams at the end of June and beginning of July.

Yoga on the rails

Yoga instructors are being employed on German trains to help calm stressed out passengers from now until Christmas.

Commuters will also be treated to massages after railway company Deutsche Bahn said they planned to send physiotherapists to join the yoga teachers.

“Supervised yoga and relaxation exercises will help passengers de-stress after work or on weekends, especially in the run up to Christmas when people have to fight their way through crowded shopping districts,” said a DB spokesperson.

He added that experts would show passengers how to sit properly, where their reflex zones are and how to do relaxing breathing exercises. They will also offer hand and shoulder massages.

The project will begin on trains in and around Munich but could be extended to the rest of the country if it proves successful.

Naked bank robbers

Police in El Salvador say two naked men who came out of a hole in the road were bank robbers.

Officers say the men were digging a tunnel toward the vault of a bank in San Salvador, reports the BBC.

The two men, covered in nothing but dust, were caught after part of the tunnel collapsed, leaving a gaping hole in the street.

They had apparently stripped down because of the heat inside the 250 ft. tunnel.

The area had been under police surveillance after reports of mysterious noises.

“We have stopped a big-scale robbery,” said the city’s police commissioner, Wilfredo Avelenda.

He said the tunnel, which led to an abandoned house, had been worked on for several days and was nearing completion.

When part of the tunnel collapsed, near to the bank, the two men ran out in to the street to escape, but were arrested by a police patrol.

The pair – aged 22 and 18 – are to be charged with robbery, the police commissioner said.

Robber met by laughter

A robber was met by laughter in a school in Chile when his raid was mistaken for a play rehearsal.

Parents, teachers and pupils were in the school in Providencia when a man entered and said: “This is a robbery!”

Witnesses said everyone started laughing as students had just been rehearsing a play, which started with the same words.

A police spokesman told Las Ultimas Noticias: “The robber had difficulty in making people believe he was serious, he had to throw a fit.”

Eventually people understood what was really going on and the robber took the registration money and ran off.

But the unlucky criminal ran toward the local police station and was arrested by officers who were on their way after being alerted about the robbery.