A Dutch supermarket chain is offering a free police radar with any kitchen furniture bought. Is it a good idea or not? Read more in our motoring tales.
A Dutch supermarket chain is offering a free police radar with any kitchen furniture bought. Is it a good idea or not? Read more in our motoring tales.
Free scanner with kitchen table
Dutch police are furious with a supermarket chain that is offering a free police radar to customers who buy kitchen furniture.
The customers can then use the radar to detect speed traps. The police say it is a dangerous offer.
“People with a radar detector in their car usually don’t mind crossing junctions at 80 km/h. Imagine your child crossing the street at that moment,” police spokesman Rien van Kuik told newspaper.
“We are just trying to sell kitchen furniture. Every shop is trying to get some money in its own way,” said a spokesman for the shop chain.
Cars on drugs
An American man who bought a car at a police auction was stunned when he found about R6 million worth of cocaine in the vehicle.
The unnamed man said he had been making repairs on the vehicle and found packets of cocaine under the dashboard while he was working on the handbrake.
He called the Pecos Valley Drug Task Force in New Mexico, who valued the drug at R6 million.
The car was apparently seized during a drug raid in 2001.
Car for love?
A Brazilian man will give his car and his savings to anyone who can convince his ex-girlfriend to go out with him again.
Roberto Barros put an advertisement in a newspaper in Sao Paulo offering his unspecified 1988 car and savings to anyone who could convince Liane Santos Correia to take him back. He said his savings and car were worth about R42 000.
His girlfriend left him because of his jealous behaviour. “I have been criticised for loving so much and not having limits. I want her back,” Barros said.