The bike is made of a beer crate strapped to a powerful engine, with what looks like a bomb at the back (Europics.at)

A BARMY motorist has been banned by police after converting a beer crate into a mini quad bike.

The micro machine was given its last orders after Wolfi Maier, 24, tried to outrun cops on the booze machine in Dautphetal, Germany.

The biker said he had only just finished the vehicle and claimed it was on the way to a test drive at a private racing track.

“It looked good but it was not licensed to travel on the road – so we confiscated it,” one officer said.

“The vehicle featured a tuned-up engine that normally only goes about 15mph but this was much quicker.”

He added: “It would certainly make drink driving more risky.”

Police told the Austrian Times the vehicle could yet be returned if the owner promised not to use it on the public roads again.

The horse had an irrepressible curiosity about the workings of the German drainage system (Europics.at)

It looks like someone is going to need a new mane sewer after this fully grown horse fell through a manhole cover in a freak accident.

Charley – a 12-year-old riding horse – saddled firefighters with a headache when the drain cover gave way after he returned from a morning canter with his owner Boris Fretz, 27, in Hewingsen, Germany.

Charlie was so excited by his time in the sewer he needed a lie down to recover

Winching gear lifted the 16 hand high beast free from the gully after two hours of being calmed by vets and animal lovers.

“Amazingly Charley was exhausted and filthy but absolutely fine after some hay and a good clean,” one firefighter told the Austrian Times.

The Hitler disco poster that caused the controversy (Europics.at)

NIGHTCLUB bosses have been arrested under anti-fascist laws for using pictures of Adolf Hitler to promote their bar.

Sklot rock club in Warsaw, Poland, doctored a picture of the Nazi leader wearing sunglasses above a Third Reich eagle for posters plugging the club’s party nights.