Now, 10 Commandments for good motorists
Thou shall not drive under the influence of alcohol. Thou shall respect speed limits. Thou shall not consider a car an object of personal glorification or use it as a place of sin. The Vatican took a break from strictly theological matters on Tuesday to issue its own rules of the road, a compendium of do’s and don’ts on the moral aspects of driving and motoring, Reuters reports from Vatican City. A 36-page document called “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road” contains 10 Commandments covering everything from road rage, respecting pedestrians to avoiding rude gestures while behind the wheel.
16-year-old stages robbery to wipe bad school grades
A 16-year-old Berlin student was so worried he would have to repeat a year at school because of poor marks he convinced two friends to storm his class and steal the report cards with his bad grades, Reuters reports from Berlin. “The student probably honestly believed that he could avoid repeating the school year if he made the report cards disappear,” said a spokesman for local police Monday. The youth sat quietly at the back of the classroom as the two masked robbers, aged 14 and 15, burst in and threatened his teacher with a steel bar if she did not hand over the reports.
Saddam’s golden gun goes on display at war museum
Saddam Hussein was truly the man with the golden gun. And to prove it, Australia has put the weapon on display at its war museum, Reuters reports from Canberra.
Australia went to war in Iraq to remove Saddam’s weapons and still maintains forces in and around the Middle Eastern country.
On Monday, the Australian War Memorial accepted a golden Tabuk rifle — the Iraqi equivalent of the AK-47 — from the Australian military, which in turn received it from allied US troops in thanks for taking part in the Iraq war.