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Beware of the drunk pedestrians: Forget drink drivers…motorists in Romania warned of inebriated locals wandering the streets

March 8th, 2010 dailywail Comments off

 

One of the garish new signs in Pecica, Romania, that warns drivers of drunk pedestrians crawling the streets (Europics.at)

TOWN hall chiefs in Eastern Europe have given up on trying to stop drink drivers – and are now warning them about drunk pedestrians instead.

Road safety bosses in Romania – where accidents involving alcohol are at record levels – have put up traffic signs warning motorists of drunks wandering the streets.

Mayor Petru Antal ordered the signs – saying ‘Attention – Drunks’.

They come complete with an image of a reveller on his knees with a bottle and have been put up in Pecica, where officials have virtually given up on boozy locals ever following the law.

“We are a border town and have lots of cars thundering through here all the time,” Mayor Antal told the Romanian Times. 

“But we also have a very vibrant nightlife and the two don’t mix.

“We have to target the drivers because by the time they get to this state the pedestrians are beyond caring.”

The world’s biggest ever bottle of wine. Mmmm…wine

January 28th, 2010 dailywail Comments off

You need a ladder just to drink from the gigantic wine bottle (Europics.at)

THIS is the world’s biggest EVER bottle of wine.

The 15ft-tall bottle contains an astonishing 1,850 litres of claret – enough to put you more than 10,000 times over the drink-drive limit.
 
Produced by Wang Chen Wines in Liaoning, northern China, it contains treble the amount held by the previous record-holders in Austria.
 
“We are very proud and the wine is very good.
 
“We have all had a glass from the bottle to celebrate,” a company spokesman told the Austrian Times.