Skateboarder takes the fast lane

BERLIN (Reuters) - Shocked German motorists found themselves sharing a motorway with a Swedish holidaymaker travelling by skateboard until police prevailed upon him to seek safer passage home, authorities say.


"He said he was down to his last two euros and couldn't afford a train ticket," said a spokesman for police in the West Palatinate region of southwest Germany. "The man said he didn't think using the autobahn would be a problem."


The 38-year-old said he had been on holiday in the Balkans and was hoping to borrow money from friends in Berlin to get home. Police stopped him near Winnweiler, several hundred kilometres southwest of the German capital.


Police took the man, who was lugging a heavy rucksack and a golf club, to the nearest autobahn exit where he continued his journey on foot. It was not clear how far he had travelled by skateboard, police said.

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