Ghost Busted - Neatorama

A car was pulled over in Plattling, Germany, when police officers saw it was being driven by a skeleton! However, the driver was found to be a 23-year-old Brit named Martin Williams.

He told police he'd snapped up the plastic life-size model at a local flea market but strapped it into his front passenger seat because he thought it would be damaged in the boat.

A police spokesman said: 'It was only when we stopped the car that we realised it was a British right hand drive car - and the skeleton was therefore in the passenger seat.

"We could not make any charges against him as it is not illegal to have a plastic skeleton in your car."

http://austriantimes.at/news/Around_the_World/2011-07-29/35269/Ghost_Busted -via Arbroath

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lol. Maybe he was towing a boat.

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I wondered about that. I supposed either the German police or the Austrian journalist didn't quite understand the driver using the British term "boot" for the car trunk.

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Wow, the kid has a skeleton and a boat - Neat!

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The boat? I thought they called it the boot. Or is the boat something else?

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"War Plan Red" is odd... The US has long had some single-minded obsession with invading Canada that I just can't understand... Happened during the revolutionary war. It was step #1 in the war of 1812, which went wrong and incidentally the White House was burned down. Then with the Oregon territory dispute of "54-40 or Fight!" fame, as if history had shown war to be such a great idea.

Whatever obsessed Napoleon with Russia seems to exist in US/Canada relations, too.

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"War Plans" are intellectual exercises for training and evaluation. A friend of mine was involved with one where colonels had authority to use tactical nuclear weapons. There was an interesting one where we were invaded by space aliens.

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Don't doubt the Chinese are going to call in their debt and alter the US map in the process. We have become the bully of the block, and the block has one huge kid capable of kicking our asses, all he needs is the motivation.

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