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Religions > Atheism |
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"stoney" |
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20 May 2005 07:57:39 PM |
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OT: Quirkies |
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1389729.html?menu=news.quirkies.quirkygaffes
Lorry driver shunted Smart car down mway
A lorry driver shunted a tiny Smart car two miles down a busy German
motorway because he didn't know it was wedged to his truck.
Klaus Buergermeister only stopped, allowing the Smart car's terrified
driver to escape, when he was flagged down by police.
The trucker, 53, pushed the tiny car driven by Andreas Bolga, 48,
along the busy A1 after pulling onto the autobahn at Leverkusen.
He said he was surprised when a patrol car signalled for him to stop
as he was not driving too fast and had only had his vehicle serviced
the week before.
"I couldn't believe it when I got out of the truck and saw there was a
car stuck on the front of it," he said.
He added he had felt a slight bump, but said he thought he had simply
driven over a stone in the road.
Instead he had hit the Smart car and its bumper had wedged on the
truck's radiator grill.
Mr Bolga said: "I was driving at just under 60mph when the truck came
onto the motorway and hit me.
"I tried to drive away but couldn't. I looked up through my sun roof
and could see the driver, but he didn't notice me."
Police say no action will be taken against the truck driver.
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An 80-year-old motorist had to be stopped by a police roadblock after
he drove 15 miles down a busy motorway on the wrong side of the road.
The pensioner ignored oncoming drivers as they hooted their horns and
flashed their lights, saying he thought they were warning him there
was a speed trap up ahead.
He was eventually stopped by motorway police who blocked off the
motorway between the Croatian capital Zagreb and Rijeka in the north
of the country and arrested the pensioner, local news agency Hina
reported.
The man said he had not realised he was doing anything wrong, despite
passing a number of cars with "wildly flashing lights" that were
honking their horns at him.
He said: "I noticed people were signalling to me, but I thought they
were warning me that there was a police speed check up ahead."
He has been fined 200 pounds and faces losing his licence for six
months.
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Stressed mum chooses jail for a break
A mother-of-three is to spend three months in jail instead of paying a
parking fine to get a rest from her 'demanding' children and 'lazy'
husband.
Maria Brunner waved to neighbours as police drove her away for not
paying a £50 fine that had risen to £2,500 because it had been left
unpaid.
"She opened the door and seemed really happy, if not relieved, to see
us before asking us to take her away and lock her up," said one of the
arresting officers from Poing in Germany.
The 38-year-old said she had had enough of scraping a living for her
family as a cleaner every day while "my lazy husband sits on his
backside doing nothing".
She added: "As long as I get food and a hot shower everyday, I don't
mind being sent to jail. It means I can finally get some rest and
relaxation without having to cook, wash and clean for everyone."
Brunner said she only found out she owed so much money when she got a
letter from public prosecutors saying she would be jailed if she did
not repay it immediately.
She says her unemployed husband, 35, hid the original fine from her
that had been sent after he parked badly while driving her car.
"At first I was really worried about it, because I knew we did not
have so much money, but then I looked at it as a chance to get away
for a while," she said.
A police officer added: "She repeatedly thanked us for arresting her
and smiled and waved as she was driven off to jail."
But her stay in prison may be cut short as her husband is desperately
trying to raise the money to pay off her fine.
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Confused storks try to hatch golf balls
A pair of storks made a nest in the middle of a golf green in Germany
and filled it with stolen golf balls.
The birds have gathered so many balls that they have built a second
nest on the Krogaspe golf course.
..Bird expert Georg Fiedler said the bizarre behaviour was a
"biological sensation" because storks usually nest in only trees or
buildings.
He said: "Storks normally never build their nests on the ground.
Between 1894 and 1997 only 16 stork couples have ever been reported to
have had their nests on the ground."
Fiedler suggested that the storks may have lost their previous nest,
maybe to another stork couple, and were now desperate to make up for
the lost time.
Local golf instructor Chris Parker said: "They used to be content to
fly over the course in the past, but now they have settled right in
the middle of it."
Copyright © 2005 Ananova Ltd
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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