MyLaffs Joke #1333
MORE STRANGE BUT TRUE:
USA: A traffic cop catches speeders in Florida by disguising himself as a old tramp with a radar gun hidden in his zimmer frame.
AUSTRALIA: Driver James Perry who smashed into a police breathalyzer van was five times over the drink drive limit.
USA: A woman traffic warden was taken to hospital after an angry motorist poured a bag of cockroaches over her head.
FRANCE: A biker caught at 173 mph on a motorway lost his temper and his licence after accusing traffic police of under-estimating his speed.
GERMANY: A driver whose car was wrecked by a free felled by a beaver lost his claim for damages. A court near Bonn ruled that the tree had priority.
USA: An off-duty policeman was arrested for allegedly shooting a man cleaning windscreens at new York traffic lights.
AUSTRALIA: As Clara Ryland drove off after a row with her husband George, he clung onto the car's roof wearing only his underpants. Sydney cops later charged her with reckless driving.
SWEDEN: Motorists convicted on parking illegally in disabled driver's spaces are sentenced to spend three hours in wheelchairs.
CANADA: A long distance lorry driver in Montreal protested against working practises by hijacking a company truck and taking it's cargo of broccoli hostage.
USA: Fire-fighters in Connecticut saw their brand new fire-engine burst into flames on it's maiden journey.
POLAND: The owner of a holiday cottage on a small island near Warsaw has to use a boat rather than a car, after thieves stole his bridge.
USA: New Jersey residents took an ice-cream man to court to make him change his van's repetitive chimes. The ice-cream man won the case, but admitted he too was sick of the chimes, so bought some other music to play.
USA: The Californian Highway Patrol finally caught up with Jason Bendel after a nine-mile chase. He was later fined $500 and banned from driving for a year - on his 93rd birthday.
CANADA: Montreal schools have bought 12 cardboard cut-outs of cops holding radar guns in an attempt to stop speeding drivers.
NETHERLANDS: A duck caused chaos by trying to cross a road in Amsterdam. One car, which swerved to avoid it, was rammed by a following vehicle, then a motorbike hit the wreckage.
