Tag Archive for Austria

Weird Crime Around the World: UK, Austria, Houston Texas (USA) (W/Video)

Due to the misconception that the United States has the ‘Lock’ on out-of-the-box crime, we present. . . EDITOR

My close friend and world record holder George Meegan posted:

From George Meegan’s Blog

Deed most foul – UK style

12/30/2010

Brute caged for Life – The body was drained of blood. “She’s been on at me and just would not shut up.” The knife “ended up in her” after she’d hit him with a bottle. [New Year Sun newspaper.]

and from Austria:

Charlotte Higgins Blog ( Guardian UK)

Murder Most Foul?

A gruesome episode in Austria has seen an actor slit his own throat on-stage

This takes the biscuit for the weirdest story of the week. Actor Daniel Hoevels, in the final scene of Schiller’s masterpiece Mary Queen of Scots at Vienna’s Burgtheater, slit his own throat when it turned out that the prop knife he was using was in fact a real knife. The knife, mercifully, missed the carotid artery. Otherwise he could have been in real trouble. . . . Read Complete Report

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from youtube

Click2Houston – Strange Crimes

Uploaded by havefun082

Uploaded on Oct 12, 2011

This clip was broadcasted in the News at 7:00am by channel 2 on 8 October 2011.

Robotics: Fifty Quadrotors Put on Glowing Sky Show in Austria (Video)

We’ll never be able to believe any future UFO night time videos from any source. The fakesters will have a field day with this technology . . . EDITOR

from IEEE Spectrum

POSTED BY: EVAN ACKERMAN  /  THU, SEPTEMBER 06, 2012

We were pretty impressed with KMel’s quadrotor performance at Cannes back in June, and the idea of using swarms of quadrotors to create light shows seems to be catching on. At the voestalpine Klangwolke Cloud in the Net festival in Austria, a swarm of 50 quadrotors teamed up to put on a giant animated show in the night sky. . . . Read Complete Report

from youtube

Published on Aug 30, 2012 by 

Quadrocopters turn into pixels at the voestalpine Klangwolke and form 3D-Modells in the sky. As a world-premiere, the Ars Electronica Futurelab has managed to fly a formation outdoor with so many quadrocopters, painting some moments of magic into the nightsky of Linz. . . . Text posted with video to youtube