What about the burglar that hid under the bed and pretended to be unconscious when the police discovered him? Ragingly optimistic of him, no doubt. You can almost imagine the conversation, can’t you?
City & Metropolitan
News from Granada city and its surroundings
Bad Day for Mum
by Editor •
(Santa Fe/Granada) Little did Manuela Cordoba suspect, when she left her home in the morning, that by midday she would be mistaken for a bank robber and her son’s toy pistol confiscated…
She was fined 100 euros and had her driving licence confiscated… but we’re getting ahead of ourselves, so let’s start at the beginning.
Banks and Beds
by Editor •
(Granada capital) A 25-year-old man forced the main door of a bank and once inside, decided to bed down for the night next to the managers desk – fair!
Cuddly Phone Companies
by Editor •
(Granada, Vega) How many hard working, honourable people have witnessed their names being included on the non-payers blacklist, destroying their personal credit ratings? How many have found themselves on the black list for a pittance bill that they didn’t even know about or one that really didn’t correspond to reality? Too many, is the sad answer.
Good Samaritan Priest
by Editor •
(Granada capital) The actions of a priest in Barcelona kicked off a donor chain involving six people, ending in Granada’s Virgen de las Nieves hospital. This is how it worked: the priest, for completely altruistic reasons donated a kidney to a man in a Barcelona hospital…
Not Nice Family
by Editor •
What about the family of bank robbers that tortured a petty drug dealer with a carpenter’s hammer? The accused, who the Public Prosecutor claims carried out robberies using extreme violence, allegedly shot the man after smashing his hands and feet.
Teen Confesses to Killing Girlfriend
by Editor •
The Guardia Civil arrested a 19-year-old man after he brought his 18-year-old girlfriend to the emergency department of a hospital, already dead from a severe beating.
Costa Tropical’s Seaside Gazette
by Editor •
The online version of the Seaside Gazette has been going for two years and already has 1,650 articles, some of them being multiple ones.
Body Found
by Editor •
The body of the man from Zafarraya that was killed in an avalanche in the Sierra Nevada on the 20th of February (our March Front-Page Article) was finally located on the 18th of May, thanks to the Spring thaw.
The Mayor & The Dustbin Man
by Editor •
A judge has just decided that the Mayor of Otura (just south of the provincial capital) is not guilty of making death threats against a refuge collector, during a rubbish-collection strike in October of last year.