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Raily drunk driver
croatiantimes.com
A blind drunk German has been arrested after mistaking an underground train tunnel for a road and driving 200 metres along the tracks before realising his mistake.
Police and fire trucks in Bochum, western Germany, had to be scrambled in the middle of the night to stop trains and help remove the man's Vauxhall Corsa that was stuck in a train tunnel in the city in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Max Kirsch, 29, had veered left into the tunnel after heading down a service road and had not realised what he had done. He told police he was simply trying to get to downtown Bochum after seeing the latest Harry Potter movie.
And despite the bumpy ride he claimed he had not noticed anything was wrong until the car ground to a halt when the suspension collapsed.
Police spokesman Frank Plewka said: "It seems he didn’t notice something was wrong until he got out of the car. When he did realise where he was, he had to call the fire department to help get his car out."
Plewka added: "The whole thing reminded me of an old Opel advertisement that said the car ‘drives like it’s on rails.’ He may have been testing that claim. It is not the first time this has happened, but we certainly never had anybody travel so far down the tunnel without realising."
Police said the man was drunk.
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