The chronicle reports two cases of arrests due to the production and possession of clandestine weapons “homemade” with tubes.
The Carabinieri of Gela, in Sicily, have arrested two people for having found, hidden in their property, some tubes that individually appear to be simple metal pieces, but which, once assembled, are firearms of rapid use and easy concealment. At the end of the operations a complete caliber 36 weapon was placed under seizure with other adaptable tubes of different caliber, numerous metal tubes of the same features for the manufacture of further weapons, as well as sixty cartridges of various caliber.
An operation by the Avola State Police has instead led to the arrest of a man, intercepted on a stolen car, in possession of a craft gun, composed of several disassembled parts: a castle consisting of a cylindrical pipe half an inch with a striker, with a threaded part on which a piece of iron of 25 cm or another of more than half a meter could be screwed for use as a rod. At the home of the arrested person, in addition to various ammunition, there was a small artisan workshop for assembling DIY weapons. Dulcis in fundo, the police also seized an umbrella to make it look like a gun barrel.

A broken pipe risked blowing up the match between Lorenzo Sonego (67th Atp) and Russian Karen Khachanov (13th Atp) of the Internazionali at Foro Italico. The sudden break of a pipe used to water the field flooded, within a few minutes, a small part of the field of the Grand Stand Arena. Fortunately, the timely intervention of the employees interrupted the flow of water and dried the mud by spreading a little red soil. The match was smooth and Khachanov eventually won.

Two and a half kilometers of pipes above the heads of the citizens of Seregno, where the sewage flow will run. It is an impressive operation but, fortunately, only temporary, because the aerial pipes placed in the area between Polo, Sabatelli and Luini will serve as a bypass in view of Brianz Acque’s extensive inter-municipal sewer collector Alto Lambro Seregno Sud, a site of more than three million euros in total.

The underground pipeline, in fact, is in a very advanced state of deterioration. Thanks to an innovative technique, excavation, removal and replacement of pipes will not be necessary, with consequent repercussions on the road network, but a sort of “resin sock” will be placed which will adhere to the internal wall of the existing pipe built in the thirties, acting as a container for a new pipe. During the interventions, which will last about three months, here is the substitute function of the aerial pipes.

Large panoramic windows, stairways, overhanging passages and the immersion in the darkness of tunnels dug into the conglomerate have helped to make it one of the most spectacular and exciting routes on Monte di Portofino: it is the Sentiero dei Tubi, the Path of Tubes, a path as spectacular as it is challenging, accessible only if accompanied by guides from the Portofino Park.

The Sentiero dei Tubi traces the ancient route of the Acquedotto delle Caselle (inaugurated way back in 1899) which supplied the town of Camogli with water. Today you go on guided tours that also reach Monte Bricco, a panoramic point that embraces the entire Golfo Paradiso.

Plush teddy bears with tubes, drips, plasters and catheters, to help sick children (and their families) face the disease and accept the care they are subjected to. It is the idea launched and created by Fiona Allan, 28, from Glasgow, suffering from a serious genetic disease and forced to live with a surgical catheter and a nasal tube.

The Teddy Bear “sick” are about twenty and use real medical accessories. The reputation came thanks to a service of the BBC broadcaster, who interviewed the mother of a young patient: “The teddy bear helped my daughter adapt to the medical devices she must use. It distracts her as we slip or take the real ones from her and it is easy to explain to the other children why she needs all her valves to live “.