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.

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.”