Here's one for Doug - and I don't think anyone will complain if he calls him
(or her) a prat !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7000397.stm

Police have condemned a driver who balanced a mattress on top of his car and
then held on to it as he drove along a busy motorway.

His passenger was also spotted grabbing on to the mattress as the Citroen
Xsara headed north towards Gloucester along the M5 near Bristol on Monday
morning.

An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said the action was very dangerous.

"If an item was not properly secured we would stop the vehicle and take
appropriate action," he said.

Paul Waller, of Rugby, a passenger in a nearby car who took a picture of the
rooftop mattress, said: "It was catching the wind and looked very dangerous,
so we didn't stay behind it for long.

"It could have caused an accident - the car was travelling at more than
40mph."

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:32:04 GMT, "heavyhorses"
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nullified wrote:

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nullified wrote:

The person on the M5 was using the wrong sort of Citroen. I once brought
back sufficient conifer shrubs for a 100ft run of hedging in a Citroen
2CV. The plants were all over 6ft tall, so I removed all the passenger
seats, rolled back the roof and filled the entire floor area. About 2ft
of each tree poked out of the top.

A mattress would have been a piece of cake.

We also once got ready for a big party carting all the beer in the 2CV.
The blokes at the brewery refused to believe that we could get all of
the barrels into the car. But we did.

In message <1i4wful.19uoiq8p0jz51N%%%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk>, Steve Firth
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A bite too far?