Laughing German Raises Police Alarm

HEARD the one about the laughing German who sparked a police rescue?

A police car and rescue helicopter were called in to save a screaming man in a German forest, but it turned out that the man was in fact screaming with laughter.

Read the signs:

If you hear someone screaming in a forest, it’s probably best to dial the local emergency hotline and do your civic duty. That’s what a German woman thought she was doing after hearing a man screaming in his car in a forest in Elmstein, a town in the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

A police car and rescue helicopter were dispatched to help the poor man, who the woman said had been screaming for three hours.

When police turned up on the scene, it turned out that the man was not screaming at all - he was just laughing at a very funny book.

I knew a laughing German, Helmut Hetz was his name…

Anorak

Posted: 8th, April 2009 | In: Strange But True Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink