Navigation system directs driver into sand pile
Tuesday, The 10th of October 2006. 8:08pm (AEST)
An 80-year-old German motorist obediently following his navigation system has ignored a motorway "closed for construction" sign and crashed his Mercedes into a pile of sand further down the road.
"The driver was following the orders from his navigation system and even though there was a sufficient number of warnings and barricades, he continued his journey into the construction site," a police spokeswoman said.
"His trip finally ended when he wound up crashing into a pile of sand."
The driver and his wife escaped uninjured from the collision, which occurred on a motorway near Hamburg.
- Reuters
ABC 23-10-6
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1759214.htm
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Jelly triggers German security alert
Tuesday, the 10th of October 2006. 9:49am (AEST)
A small pile of leftover jelly discarded beside the road after a wedding party caused a large-scale security alert in Germany with biochemical experts, firemen and police called in to investigate.
"Passers-by called police after finding a pool of a flabby red, orange and green substance on the roadside," a police spokesman in the eastern town of Halle said.
Fears of toxic waste led to the closure of a wide area after the emergency call on Sunday, and experts wearing chemical warfare suits spent two hours examining the gelatinous substance before deciding that it was jelly.
"The fire brigade always has to assume a worst-case scenario," a spokesman said.
"We conducted a variety of tests and figured out it was jelly."
He says the newly-wed groom, who was pulled out of bed at noon following a tip-off, confirmed that the jelly, known as Jell-O in the United States, was a party leftover and agreed to clean it up.
- Reuters
ABC 23-10-6
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1759367.htm
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