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Two Polish builders left a £50,000 trail of destruction when they drove to an off-licence in a digger truck after running out of booze on the building site.

Marek Cowalski, 27 and Tomasz Dzwonicki, 19, ploughed into parked cars, garden walls and fences and a set of traffic lights on their way to buy more drink for a birthday binge on a building site in Glogow, south-west Poland.

"No one tried to stop them because people were too stunned," said a local shopkeeper, "People just stopped on the spot and stared at them.

"Who do they think they are making all that mess anyway? You could see they were drunk a mile off - the digger was zigzagging across the street."

The sight of workmen drinking on construction sites is not uncommon in Poland as drinking laws are more lax.

But police were forced to act when the boozy pair tried to reverse into a parking space outside the off licence - and drove straight into the shop and got stuck.

"They must have been over the moon as they had all the drink they could want," said the shopkeeper.

Fire crews eventually managed to cut the dozy pair out and they were taken straight to jail where they face up to five years for their stunt.