Trucker pulled over with cardboard windscreen

britexpat
By britexpat

Dracula has been missing for a while and I heard he was driving back from Shamal...

A lorry driver was pulled up by police in China - after driving for hundreds of miles with a sheet of cardboard covering his broken windscreen.

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Traffic officers ordered him to pull over after spotting him on the Jinggang'ao Highway in Henan province.

"The weather was extremely cold, but we saw a lorry with a cardboard windscreen - and the driver had his head out of the side window all the time," said a police spokesman.

Mr Li jumped down from the cab with a face that was purple from the cold. He told officers he had been in an accident in Hubei province several days earlier but did not have time to repair it properly because of his tight delivery schedule.

He admitted to police that he had driven with the temporary cardboard windscreen for an incredible 400 miles.

"When there were a lot of vehicles I would drive with my head out of the window," he told police.

"I would drive like that until my neck got too sore and numb, when I would drive by looking through the little holes in the cardboard."

Police escorted the truck to a nearby service station, and ordered Li to repair his vehicle properly before going back on the road.

By britexpat• 8 Dec 2009 09:24
britexpat

What is amazing is that the Police did not prosecute him....

Perhaps our Police can learn from the Chinese :O)

By galloper48• 8 Dec 2009 08:40
galloper48

400 miles????

Amazing that the authorities did not spot him before!!

Wow

By svelte_saggi• 8 Dec 2009 08:22
Rating: 4/5
svelte_saggi

the kind of incredible stuff we get to hear everyday....man!

Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor

By Snowstorm• 8 Dec 2009 08:22
Rating: 4/5
Snowstorm

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By mjamille28• 8 Dec 2009 08:18
Rating: 3/5
mjamille28

lol Boston, still not good enough, is it.. :P

By mintus• 8 Dec 2009 08:07
mintus

Is this any worse than the Hundreds of Qatari cars with huge " I was once new stickers in the window?"

By anonymous• 8 Dec 2009 08:05
anonymous

He can hear it, mj.

By mjamille28• 8 Dec 2009 08:04
Rating: 4/5
mjamille28

well what about in front of him? :P

By anonymous• 8 Dec 2009 07:57
anonymous

He could still see what came up behind him. So, no problem.

By mjamille28• 8 Dec 2009 07:56
Rating: 4/5
mjamille28

was he seriously driving that? :/

By anonymous• 8 Dec 2009 07:52
anonymous

Need makes inventive!

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