phone lost at sea returned- hape hilang bisa kembali lagi

Sering kali kita mendengar kabar hape teman kita hilang, tertinggal atau raib diambil pencuri, atau mungkin anda juga pernah mengalami hal yg sama.
Karena kesibukan, atau lain hal, mungkin lupa meletakkan akhirnya hape kesayangan raib digondol si tangan panjang. Ada yg mengenaskan seorang teman kehilangan hapenya setelah menerima seorang tamu dirumahnya, karena lengah hapenya pun raib dibawa kabur, ataupun kisah yang semacam sering terjadi di lingkungan kita.

Namun tidak demikian yg dialami seorang di Taipei, Taiwan yg kehilangan hapenya karena tercebur ke laut sewaktu dia bermain di laut snorkeling. Setelah berkelana di laut selama 4 hari dan menempuh jarak 37 km, hape tsb kembali ke tuannya dengan kondisi tak kurang suatu apapun juga. Walau tuannya sudah ikhlas kehilangan tapi akhirnya hape itu sendiri yg kembali ke pemiliknya.



Phone lost 4 days at sea found, recharged, returned


TAIPEI (Reuters) - A mobile phone lost at sea for four days washed up in perfect condition in Taiwan after drifting 37 km (23 miles) and was discovered by a park lifeguard who tracked down the shocked owner to return it, the finder said on Friday.

Yu Hsin-leh of Taipei lost the phone on July 24 while snorkeling near the Taiwan port city of Keelung, Taiwan's United Daily News reported.

On Monday, it turned up in Longdong Bay Park on the island's northeasternmost cape after floating past numerous towns and rocky outcroppings.

A small water-resistant case had protected the phone at sea, said park lifeguard Lin Huan-chuan, who found it.

Lin said he recharged the battery and called Yu's wife by finding her in the phone's list of saved numbers.

"All the phone's functions were normal," Lin said. "The owner was extremely surprised as he figured he had lost it for good."

Reporting by Ralph Jennings

toilet snake attack

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taiwanese man became a sitting target for a snake, which bit his penis as sat on the toilet at his rural home, local media reported on Monday.

"As soon as he sat down, he suddenly felt a knife-like pain and reacted instinctively by standing up," the China Times said. "When he looked down, he saw the big snake."

The 51-year-old man, from Nantou County, was under medical care with minor injuries, a director at Puli Christian Hospital said.

"As soon as he has passed the risk of infection, he can go," the director, who declined to be named, said. "A snake's mouth isn't always clean."

Local television images showed the black and yellow reptile, reportedly a species of rat snake, being uncoiled and plucked slowly from the toilet bowl.

Snakes regularly enter rural homes in Taiwan and other sub-tropical regions of Asia.

(Reporting by Ralph Jennings; Editing by Nick Macfie and Miral Fahmy)

Free Money in Taichung, Taiwan

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan police have arrested a 55-year-old man for lobbing bank notes worth about T$1 million ($29,600) from vehicles, causing disorder in the streets, an officer said on Monday.

The man tossed the bills from a taxi in a crowded part of Taichung city on Sunday as people stopped to pick up the cash, Changhua police official Lin Shih-ming said.

"He might have had a nervous condition, as his state of mind wasn't normal," Lin said.

He is believed to have thrown heaps more money on an earlier road trip starting in the capital Taipei.

The man also burned about T$400,000 and had two more sacks of cash, apparently the proceeds of a property sale, Lin said.

Some of the passers-by who picked up the bills turned the money over to police, while others pocketed it, he said.

The taxi driver turned the man in to police in Changhua county, just south of Taichung

The suspect would be charged with public endangerment and destruction of currency, Lin said.

(Reporting by Ralph Jennings; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

Jobless ex-con asks for more prison time

Tue, Feb 24 TAIPEI (Reuters) - A jobless Taiwan man released from prison two years ago asked police to send him back so he could eat, police and local media said Tuesday, a grim sign of hard economic times on the island.

When police found the 45-year-old convicted arsonist lying on a street in a popular Taipei shopping district, he requested a return to life behind bars, nostalgic for the 10 years he had already served, the China Post newspaper reported.

Wang had also contacted police separately with his request, a spokesman said. Officers who found him bought him a boxed lunch but declined to send him back to prison, the police spokesman said.

"We advised him to keep looking for work," he said. "I don't know why he can't find a job. Maybe employers think he's not suitable or that he's too old."

Taiwan is in recession, with a slump in exports leading a record economic contraction in the fourth quarter of last year. Economists see more weakness through most of 2009, given falling demand for Taiwan's electronics goods in overseas markets.

(Reporting by Ralph Jennings in Taipei; Editing by Nick Macfie)