Body-builders Rescue Car

I guess one should always crash near a gym!

clipped from news.yahoo.com BERLIN (Reuters) - A group of 10 body-builders from a German gym took a break from their normal training routine to help a driver whose car was stuck in a ditch, police said on Monday. The men were training at the Explosives fitness studio in Bad Zwischenahn near the western city of Oldenburg when the 38-year-old driver lost control of his vehicle, veered into a meadow and plunged the front of his car into the two-meter (6 feet) deep ditch. "They dropped their sweat towels and water bottles and ran over the road to the crash site," a police spokesman told Reuters. "They then heaved the car out. It only took them a few minutes." The grateful driver joined the men at the fitness studio bar and treated them to a round of energy drinks, the police spokesman said.

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Japanese Make Musical Roads

It's bad enough listening so the hiss of someone else's iPod when they have it too loud, without the road joining in too!

Japanese researchers have turned road noise into music after discovering that grooves etched into the surface of the road resonate inside cars as musical notes.

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"Loosen, Or I'll Shoot"

The amazing thing is, is that this guy was sober! Although I have to say that lug nuts do get me a little wound up sometimes.

clipped from news.yahoo.com SOUTHWORTH, Wash. - A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's deputies said. The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home northwest of Southworth, about 10 miles southwest of Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear wheel by Saturday afternoon, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said. From about arm's length, the man fired the shotgun at the wheel and was "peppered" in both legs with buckshot and debris, with some injuries as high as his chin, according to a sheriff's office report.

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Hoons to See Their Cars Smashed

I suspect a number of them will get a kick from being on YouTube!

Street racers in Australia will soon see their beloved cars being deliberately smashed by the authorities in videos posted on the Internet.

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Man Forgets Car

If I ever forgot a car, I'd be so drunk I couldn't drive it anyway!

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man forgot his car after filling it up at a petrol station, police said Friday.

He just forgot about it and walked off home," said a spokesman for police in the western city of Wuppertal.

After the car had sat blocking the pump for about an hour, a woman working at the petrol station became suspicious and alerted authorities.

Officers contacted the 63-year-old from Remscheid, who came straight back to fetch the vehicle. He had paid to fill up the car before walking off.

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Oops, I Didn't Realise That Was Wet Concrete

Cooler than a handprint and your initials!

clipped from www.ananova.com Hans-Peter Wagner, 62, was driving on the A1 motorway near Ratekau in Northern Germany when he saw police flashing to get past him in his rear view mirror. He instantly made way and pulled over but went straight into a stretch of road that had just been freshly concreted. Wagner said: "It looked like a regular road, and I didn't see it was wet concrete."

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