lookwhaticando Posted 30 May 2007 Posted 30 May 2007 German drives down subway stairs A German woman in Dusseldorf blocked the entrance to an underground station when she mistook it for a subterranean car park, police said on Wednesday. Wrong turn, 2007 The 52-year-old drove her Volkswagen Beetle across the pavement and into the entrance, where it came to a halt five steps down. Police estimated the damage to the station at around 1,500 euros (£1,000). The VW Beetle-Cabrio remained balanced on the fifth step and the woman was able to get out unaided and unharmed. The accident happened in the Nordstrasse underground station, in the centre of Dusseldorf. A truck later towed the car out of the stairwell. 'Not dangerous' A local newspaper said the woman was more shocked and embarrassed than hurt. A similar incident happened four years ago in the same underground station, when a 50-year-old man from Dortmund also mistook it for an underground car park. Andrea Blome, head of Traffic Management in Dusseldorf said: "We had only recently transformed the entrance to the station". She said the stairwell had been painted a brighter colour and extra lighting had been installed. But she said no further changes were planned following the latest incident, and that the station was not considered dangerous. -------------------------------------------------------- Italian Job, 1969 -------------------------------------------------------- Someone's going to point out that it was a woman driver... might as well be me. Bloody women!
Simi Posted 30 May 2007 Posted 30 May 2007 Is there an end of year award for most random news articles ? Minis Down Stairs No Straights In Bars Brummies Being Ugly
Thracian Posted 30 May 2007 Posted 30 May 2007 All human life! :D Women really are pure entertainment behind a wheel. Reminds me of when I bought a hearse once - a huge great Daimler Majestic Major. I ran a business selling this and that and was going to signwrite the motor as "Dead Loss Antiques". Anyway the owner's wife thought the car unlucky cos the brakes had failed and subsequent events didn't help. Cos the owner, a Stratford farmer, chucked her the keys and asked her to drive it out of the garage and into the yard for us to have a proper look. Unfortunately she made two mistakes. First she engaged the wrong gear and then she hit the accelerator just a little bit too hard. The hearse lurched into the back of the garage, splintering the back panels and allowing half the roof to fall on the coffin-carrying part of the motor. We all fell about laughing about the noise being enough to wake the dead and how it was no body's fault but she thought the hole in her garage was like the gates of hell being opened and sprinted screaming into her house. The farmer knocked me £200 quid off the price which meant we got it for less than the cost of the Styx River Ferryman. Eventually I sold it - and a motor coach I owned - to a hippy who reckoned he could sell flowers from the back and who'd always wanted to get laid in a hearse. Not sure what he meant really but I did ask him why the hurry!
AoWW Posted 31 May 2007 Posted 31 May 2007 Someone's going to point out that it was a woman driver... might as well be me.Bloody women! Oy, I'd thrash you behind the wheel of a motor and you know it! Behave!
Alexikokopops Posted 31 May 2007 Posted 31 May 2007 The minis belonged to Mr Bridger (Noël Coward), not Charlie Croker (Michael Caine). It's early, I'm being pedantic.
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