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Police say a 91-year-old man sparked a rescue operation when he slipped mending his roof and got stuck in tar.

Police in the eastern city of Magdeburg in Germany say passers-by were so shocked to see the elderly handyman working on the roof, they first thought he was planning to commit suicide.

“In fact, he was just re-coating the roofing with bitumen but then he slipped,” a police spokesman said.

“When we got there, he was like a beetle on its back, with his arms and legs sprawled out and completely glued to the roof.

“Due to his age, he couldn’t free himself from his unfortunate situation.”

Local firemen carefully detached the man using ropes and ladders.

Police say he was unharmed but had sticky clothes.

I feel like there should be a sinister laugh somewhere in here.

Viacom Inc. today announced that it has sued YouTube and Google in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for massive intentional copyright infringement of Viacom’s entertainment properties. The suit seeks more than $1 billion in damages, as well as an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from further copyright infringement. The complaint contends that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom’s programming have been available on YouTube and that these clips had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.

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Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found naked, bound and drunk, according to Israeli media reports confirmed Monday by a government spokeswoman.

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Two weeks ago, El Salvador police found Raphael in the yard of his residence, tied up, gagged with a ball and drunk, Israeli media reported. He was wearing sex bondage equipment, the media said. After he was untied, Raphael told police he was the ambassador of Israel, the reports said.

It’s like “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?” if it was made for HBO.