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Beer saves man from avalanche
From correspondents in Bratislava
January 31, 2005
From: Agence France-Presse
A SLOVAK man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.

Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi was buried in Slovakia's Tatra mountains.
He told them that after the avalanche, he had opened his car window and tried to dig his way out with his hands.

But he realised the snow was falling faster than he could dig. and would soon fill his car.

He had 60 500ml bottles of beer in his car as he was going on holiday, and after cracking one open to think about the problem he realised he could urinate on the snow to melt it.

"It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt," he said later. "But I'm glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful."

and from the same source

A 25-year-old woman is risking her unemployment benefits after refusing to be a prostitute.
The woman, an unemployed information technology worker, was contacted by her local job centre telling her an employer was interested in her "profile", Britain's Daily Telegraph reported. She was not told who the employer was.

The woman said she was willing to work in a bar at night and had worked in a cafe.

Only when she phoned did she discover she was being recruited by a brothel.

Prostitution has been legal in Germany for two years.

Under Germany's welfare laws, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit.

The woman cannot even sue the job centre because the job centre is not breaking the law.

Job centres can be sued by employers if they do not cut benefits to people who turn down jobs



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