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Thailand Thieves Rob Man for Jeans, Shoes

AP

Two thieves robbed a man at knifepoint to steal his jeans and shoes, but they ended up with a pair of fake Levi's, police said Monday.

Watcharaphong Khaewka, a 21-year-old office worker, filed a complaint with police saying that the two men put a knife to his neck and forced him to take off his jeans and sport shoes.

"The attackers did not touch the money, watch and other valuables on the victim. They just took his jeans and sport shoes and let the victim walk home in his underwear," said police Lt. Col. Phongsak Thongsri, of Bangkok's Thongsonghong police station.

"The victim fears that the thieves will come to hurt him when they find out that the jeans were fake ones that he bought from Chatuchak Market," Phongsak said, referring to a popular weekend market that sells all kinds of counterfeit name-brand goods.

Police were searching for the thieves.

Polish toddler runs over family members in car

Reuters

An 18-month-old child started the family car and ran over three family members in a southern Polish village on Saturday, police said.

"The child somehow started the car, whose keys had been left in the ignition, and it began reversing," police spokesman Adam Jachimczak said.

The child's mother, who tried to stop the car, and her four-year-old daughter, got run over by the vehicle which pinned the grandfather against the wall of a barn.

The four-year-old, who suffered the most serious injuries, was rushed to hospital together with her mother and grandfather who were also hurt, Jachimczak said.

Flasher shocked by exposure to the law

Reuters

A German flasher's lewd antics backfired when he leaped naked out of a bush and exposed himself to a woman, only for the off-duty police officer to call for back-up and send him scrambling back into his clothes.

"He'd expected her to go 'Ooh, ooh!' when he jumped out -- not that she would calmly call officers for assistance," said a police spokesman in the western town of Mettmann on Thursday. "He got a big surprise -- he really picked the wrong person."

The 52-year-old man managed to flee in panic from where he had attempted to shock the police woman as she walked her dogs, but was soon apprehended at his home by her colleagues.