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From the Sunday Times last Sunday (finally got round to reading it), so two for the price of one:

Hiding place of the week
Police have arrested a woman after dialling the number of a stolen cell phone and hearing muffled ringing from her bottom. Officers in Iasi, Romania, stopped the 24-year-old thief as she got off a bus after passengers accused her of taking the phone. On calling the number, police heard ringing from beneath her dress. A strip search at the station revealed the phone's unlikely hiding place. 'We've had people hiding things in their bras and knickers before, but this was a new one', said a police spokesman. 'The station doctor extracted the phone, and we sprayed it with disinfectant before giving it back!'

Bad idea of the week
A man has been charged with attempted murder after tossing a plastic bottle, filled with gunpowder, at a car carrying his former girlfriend. Unfortunately for the 45-year-old attacker, the bottle bounced off the car, landed at his feet and ignited. He was taken to hospital in Durham, North Carolina, after his clothes caught fire.