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Crack (!) police work has determined that someone operating a funeral parlour is behind this hijacking. “It is unusual to hijack a hearse,” the police spokesman said. Really…?

• You can’t keep a scandal-plagued man down. Italy’s flamboyant former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has more than a penchant for17-year-old girls, soccer clubs and up market chain stores. The 75-year-old billionaire with unnaturally jet black hair, released an album of – you guessed it – love songs on his last day in office last week.

The sensual Neapolitan songs tell of tormented love, and of “another day of wind and rain, another night without you.”
 
• Ok, now I’ve heard everything. It’s not enough that ambulances are not exempt from being hijacked – there is obviously also a market out there for hearses.Last week, two armed men hijacked a hearse in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape as it stopped at a traffic light. The same men then made their way to the undertaker’s premises, overpowered a guard, and took another hearse – this one with no less than 13 devices for loading coffins.Crack (!) police work has determined that someone operating a funeral parlour is behind this hijacking. “It is unusual to hijack a hearse,” the police spokesman said. Really…?

• You can’t keep a scandal-plagued man down. Italy’s flamboyant former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has more than a penchant for17-year-old girls, soccer clubs and up market chain stores. The 75-year-old billionaire with unnaturally jet black hair, released an album of – you guessed it – love songs on his last day in office last week.The sensual Neapolitan songs tell of tormented love, and of “another day of wind and rain, another night without you.”