The pair were late for a fancy dress party when they were caught speeding (europics.at)

POLICE stopped a couple of jokers when they zoomed through a speed trap in full clown costumes.

Driver Martina Oberle, 31, had the smile wiped off her face after she was fined £110 for speeding in Moerschwil, Switzerland.

Officers initially thought Martina and pal Bettina Blauch, 26, who were wearing blonde wigs and with full clown make up, had dressed up for a prank.

But they were actually late for a fancy dress party when they were caught doing 60mph in a 45mph zone.

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 car park spaces are pink, which is a pretty colour women can see Europics.at

PADDED car parks are being introduced at shopping centres across China in a desperate bid to cope with the menace of women drivers.

Dozens of centres  in the north of the country now feature sections with wider spaces and colour coded walls to make them easier for women to spot.

The purple and pink colour scheme is also supposed to ‘ease the anxiety’ women feel when trying to reverse into a parking space.

And even the pillars are padded with foam to soften the impact of shunts.

Wang Zheng, boss of one of the shopping centres in Hebei, said: ”There is a scientific basis for all this.

“Women have a poorer sense of distance when they are locked inside a small space.

“That is why female drivers often bump the front and back of their cars.

“There is also a 15 per cent greater chance that a woman will drive her car door into another car when she opens it.”

He told the Austrian Times: “Each parking space is three metres wide, much larger than normal parking spaces and there is more CCTV to help women feel safer.”

The 'accelerate while braking' maneouvre has not been widely used by motorists before Pic: Europics.at

 A WOMAN driver has caused more than £9,000 worth of damage and destroyed dozens of shopping trolleys after pressing the accelerator pedal instead of the brake.

Angela Wohlmeyer was trying to slow down her BMW outside a supermarket in Muenster, Germany.

But as our picture shows, the 27-year-old found it all far too confusing and sped up instead – leading to this mountain of wreckage.

“I don’t know what happened,” she told the Austrian Times.

“I just seemed to mix up the pedals.”

She now faces a battle with her insurance company to get them to pay for the damage.

TVs are being dumped in the streets all over Italy, much to the frustration of drivers Pic: Europics.at

DRIVERS in Italy are furious that they can’t get up enough speed to crash properly – because the country’s streets have been littered with thousands of TVs.

It is traditional for Italian drivers to plough straight into pedestrians or other vehicles shortly after leaving home.

Many Italians even consider extensive damage on their cars to be a ‘badge of honour’, with most vehicles badly battered within minutes of leaving the showroom.

But their mission to cause constant pile-ups has been made harder since Wednesday, when the government ordered the switch-off of analogue TV signals across the country.

Rather than recycling their old sets, Italians nationwide have simply been dumping them in the streets – causing traffic chaos.

Drivers in one district of Naples, in southern Italy, have complained they even have to change their daily route because of hundreds of old TV sets thrown on the streets after the new law.

One said, without a hint of irony: “It’s become like an open-air scrap-yard.”

An idiot driver turns around as traffic approaches at 50mph Pic: europics.at

SAT NAVS are going to kill people because idiot drivers follow their instructions ‘blindly’, police chiefs have warned.  

Dozens of motorists have been caught on CCTV turning around their vehicles in high-speed tunnels  despite the threat of oncoming traffic –  ”because their sat navs told them to”

And now furious Swiss cops have spoken out about the perils of the satellite navigation systems.

They have published traffic images from the notorious Gotthard tunnel to illustrate how crazed drivers make u-turns as traffic approaches at more than 50 mph.

Damian Meier, head of traffic police in the Swiss province of Uri, said: “This is not an isolated case. More and more drivers are asked by their sat navs to take a u-turn in the Gotthard tunnel.”

He added: “The majority of drivers taking a u-turn in the tunnel are from abroad.”

Meier told the Austrian Times the sat navs often ‘revise’ the route after entering the underpass and advise drivers to turn around and take a local bypass instead.

Brigitte Dentler is not a woman you'd want driving your motor Pic: Europics.at

WHO said taking the bus was safer?

Commuters waiting for their ride were left terrifed after a 78-year-old woman accidentally stepped on the gas, in reverse gear, and drove off a wall into their stop in Salzgitter, Germany.

Brigitte Dentler managed to drive herself up the wall, literally, as she left the car park of a local DIY store.

A police officer said: “She had a problem with her clutch and the next thing she knew she and her car were sitting in the queue at a bus stop.”

“She was a bit shaken up but at least she was well placed to catch the bus home,” he told the Austrian Times.

THE average family dog pumps more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than a 4×4 vehicle that is driven 6,000 miles-a-year, a new book claims.

Time To Eat The Dog: The Real Guide To Sustainable Living compares man’s best friend to a Toyota Land Cruiser.

It also suggests a cat is equivalent to running a Volkswagen Golf.

The findings are based on the amount of land needed to grow food for pets.

Even a small pair of hamsters do the same damage as running a plasma television, the book’s authors Robert and Brenda Vale told the Daily Express.

But rabbits and chickens were eco-friendly because they provide ‘meat for their owners’.