Motorist caught playing flute at 80mph (Reuters)

Kim in Tulsa · Post by **Kim in Tulsa** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 7:08 am

I whistle and drive all the time...but not at these speeds! But then again, I'm relatively new.

Kim

Motorist caught playing flute at 80mph

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police have caught a man playing the flute with both hands as he sped through traffic at 130 kph (80 mph) on a busy highway.

"He was leaning back in the seat and steering the car with his knees and feet," said Johann Bohnert, a spokesman for police in the town of Traunstein near the Austrian border. "He looked like he'd had practice." He now faces a fine of 50 euros (35.2 pounds).

The 52-year-old from Salzburg in Austria, birthplace of Mozart, the composer whose works include the opera "The Magic Flute", told police he was not actually blowing the instrument. "He said he was just practising fingerings," said Bohnert.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2& ... &printer=1

jim_mc · Post by **jim_mc** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 7:16 am

KIM!!!

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 7:23 am

Hi, Kim!

Kim in Tulsa · Post by **Kim in Tulsa** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 7:34 am

Hi Jim! Hi Jerry!

Don't you just love this part??

"He looked like he'd had practice."

I'm convinced that's all it takes!

K

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 7:49 am

Hi Kim!
Good to see you around. How many minutes to ROTK?

Kim in Tulsa · Post by **Kim in Tulsa** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:23 am

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 9:24 am

A State Patrolman once passed me on a lonely stretch of highway while I was playing the whistle and steering with the knee. He never even noticed. That Austrian guy should have put his foot down!

I steer with the knee a lot while traveling on the freeways, it's more stable. With todays quick-action steering, the car tends to wander more with just the hands. (I know Dale's going to hate this)

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 10:04 am

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 10:42 am

From a Reuters report of a month or so ago::

'A court in Cologne fined a man who admitted he was having sex with a hitchhiker when he drove his car into a road sign, but only because he fled the scene.

(...)[a spokesman said:]'It's hard to believe, but in fact no law was broken with the intercourse on the motorway. It is a situation that the lawmakers never thought about.'

The man, 23, was also ordered to pay €400 to repair the road sign he had damaged."

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:50 am

Dale implied that the fluting motorist it was one o' us, in some other thread!

We play
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I wonder whether this guy was playing
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Kim in Tulsa · Post by **Kim in Tulsa** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 12:41 pm

Bloomfield wrote:Hi Kim!
Good to see you around. How many minutes to ROTK?

lixnaw · Post by **lixnaw** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:21 pm

sometimes i'm glad live in a non-musical country :roll:

Celtoid · Post by **Celtoid** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:44 pm

This is one scary-ass thread. I was driving to Buffalo one day to pick up a load of stained glass and some guy passed me in the fast lane doing some gawd-awful speed...and he was reading a newspaper.

If you have to stop fast and you are playing the whistle...well you can imagine for yourself.

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:01 am

Celtoid wrote:If you have to stop fast and you are playing the whistle...well you can imagine for yourself.

No need to imagine it for yourself -- it's all been laid out for you!

http://www.chiffandfipple.com/kneedriving.html

Steven

Celtoid · Post by **Celtoid** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 10:35 am