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Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/...
Don't Drink and Dial

Misdialing a number is easily done, especially if your vision is blurred and fingers uncoordinated after a serious session of pre-Christmas boozing. But for one German driver the wrong number was very wrong indeed.

On his drive home from one round after another of alcoholic merriment, a 31-year-old German man was befallen by a blow-out. Rather than change the tyre himself, he decided to keep his hands clean and leave the dirty work to the breakdown services.



The jolly civil servant, who had a blood alcohol level seven times that of the legally allowed limit, had his license taken away eight years ago, and was driving a borrowed car, dialled what he believed to be the number of roadside assistance, and blurted out his tiddled tale.



"My car is broken and I need you to come and fix it," he said. "And you'd better be quick because I'm really pretty drunk and I don't have a licence so it wouldn't be good if the cops drove past."



It wasn't until he was done with his inebriated rant that he realised he was not talking to a breakdown service at all, but to none other than the police from whom he was so keen to hide.



"He wanted us to come quickly, so we did," said a police spokesman in the western town of Monheim.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 16th December 2005:
 
I read that on ananova the other day.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 16th December 2005:
 
i think no one that stupid should be allowed to drive, never mind whether or not he was drunk
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 16th December 2005:
 
indeed
Posted by Grim..., around 16th December 2005:
 
He wasn't allowed to drive.
Do you not read what you post?
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
tried it once

didn't like it much
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
Oh, Won't Somebody Think Of The Children!
What do we want?

We want the law changed to make it illegal to murder children and bury them in woodland. We want it to be made illegal for adults to work with children. We want an end to the ridiculous process of 'criminal trials' for suspected child killers.

When do we want it?

Now.
Posted by Boudicca_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
heh heh