Interesting News Of The Week - 23/04/2012

Time for a new post I think, lets start with some interesting stories I've found this week shall we?

Confused Driver 'Parks' Car in the Paris metro station

The first news story I've found this week that seems interesting is a European story, this news story has taken place in Paris, France.
Here's a basic summary of what has happened. in my own words.

There was a claimed "confused" driver that managed to trap his car on the steps of a metro station in Paris, after somehow mistaking it for the entrance to an underground car park.

Here's what the "confused" drivers excuse was:

"There's a sign saying 'Haussmann Parking' right in front... I made a mistake"

So what this guy is saying (his name only identified only as Johan) is that he managed to mistake a set of public walking steps for a underground parking ramp, how?

Fortunately this 26-year-old managed to brake in time to stop his car, leaving the back wheels sticking out making sure that no one was hurt, but in doing this he only ended up making himself look a bit like an idiot really.
He managed to also immediately get a crowd of onlookers or new fans that just stood there and watched him as he struggled to get out of his car (great citizenship there, what happened to "Love thy neighbour"?).
They just stood, watched and took pictures of the incident.

After all the commotion the driver was later asked by French police to do an alcohol test, which he managed to pass meaning he wasn't drunk (this still doesn't explain how it happened as his excuse is pretty poor really).

Later a member of staff at a local restaurant was asked about the event that had taken place that day and said that a similar incident took place at the site about five years ago.

So this seems to be something that is just a common mistake to the people of Paris and France, maybe driving a car into metro station steps will soon be a sport the French bring to the Olympic Games, I'm sure they will be very good at it.

Here the BBC's video for the story:

CCTV shows girl falling through pavement in China

Here's the second news story I've found this week that seems interesting, it's a Non-European story, this news story has taken place in Northern China.
Here's what has happened. in my own words.

A teenage girl was walking down the path as you usually would and fell through it right in view of a CCTV camera (a good video for You've Been Framed there).

She was described to have had a "remarkable escape" after the events had taken place.
News crews were told that she has "fell into an underground cavern" which basically to you and me means a hole in the ground (and a bit of a drastic description by he media there if you ask me).

The teenager was seen by a taxi driver that rushed to her aid (along with another woman) and he also helped in the rescue process, making sure the girl got out safe (now there's a good Samaritan).

But once again you can see from the news story's video, she along with our man from the other news story managed to attract a nice crowd that once again stood there and watched as she and the taxi driver struggled, which proves the people of our world really do care for one another and will do whatever we can to help others (yeah right, I don't think so somehow).

Here's a link to the BBC's video for the story:

Summary for this week

So an overall summary this week shows that in the next Olympic games it looks like we will have France introducing the the sport of "Car Park Crashers" and China the new sport of "Floor Fallers".

I'm sure we all can't wait for that to hit our screens.