No Parking - a driver in East Africa had a notion to leave his car rather too close to his house - image courtesy of World Highways reader Francis Gicheru
January 21, 2014
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No Parking - a driver in East Africa had a notion to leave his car rather too close to his house - image courtesy of World Highways reader Francis Gicheru
A police officer in New Zealand feels that he has now seen rather too much in his job. The officer was on patrol when he overtook a man on a scooter driving with his underwear lowered to ankle height. The police officer pulled the scooter rider over to the side of the road, then asked him to pull up the underwear. When asked to explain the offence, the rider said that he was benefiting from air cooling on the exposed area, whilst in motion. The rider told the officer that he had ridden from his workplace al
A driver in the UK recently escaped serious charges for affray. The man had been driving along the road when he threw two empty coffee cups from his vehicle as it was stalled in traffic. On seeing this, a pedestrian picked up the cups and placed them on the front of the car, while telling the driver in no uncertain terms that littering is an offence. The driver responded by jumping out of his seat and grabbing a baseball bat from the rear of his car, threatening the pedestrian while using similar language.
An American man rammed his vehicle into a car being driven by a woman and later claimed he had done so under express instructions from God. The man crashed his pick-up truck into the woman's car while he was travelling at over 160km/h. His vehicle hit the rear of the car and both vehicles spun across a median then came to a stop along a barrier in the opposite lanes. Luckily the drivers suffered only minor injuries and police commented that this could have been a sign of divine intervention given the high s
