Driver tried to hit Osama lookalike

[kskiska]

A French motorist has been given a three-month suspended prison sentence for doing his level best to run over a pedestrian he mistakenly identified as Osama bin Laden.

The self-employed man of 35, named only as Pierre, was found guilty in the southern city of Montpellier on Tuesday of pursuing his intended victim through several red lights and then into a pedestrian zone.

The pedestrian only narrowly avoided being mown down when the car finally ran into a wall.

The driver's lawyer, David Mendel, said yesterday that his client had been traumatised by last week's terrorist attacks in Madrid and had fallen prey to "a temporary hallucination" while driving through the city's historic centre on Monday.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1171967,00.html

[metisnation]

1. I am french

the french are the worst drivers ever lol

[mobuto]

2. Non mon vieux

The Swiss are, by far. Not even close.

[cliss]

3. OMG! Too funny.

This has got to be one of the funniest threads I've seen at the DU.

Boy, talk about impulsive actions. The least he could have done was to get out of the car and ask the OBM look-alike for his identification. Before running him over.

[Columbia]

4. Who said the French aren't tough on terrorism?

[kskiska]

5. This brings to mind the Osama drone videotape

that showed one unidentified tall man with a group of other men. The message is that Clinton should have killed him then and there.

[pinniped]

6. No suprise, the thought of a 20,000,000.00 USD reward has been known...

to do that to people.:crazy:

BTW- How many OBL look-a-likes are thought to exist?