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24 August 2007 Get Carter US actor Bill Murray is in a spot of bother this week. The Ghostbusters and Lost in Translation star was spotted by police driving a golf buggy through central Stockholm at 3.30am, and pulled over. The 56-year-old could face a drink driving charge after refusing to take a breathalyser test. Detective Inspector Christer Holmlund said: "He refused to blow in the (breathalyser) instrument, citing American legislation. So we applied the old method - a blood test. It will take 14 days before the results are in." Murray, whose other hits include Groundhog Day and Kingpin, apparently took the cart from outside his hotel to travel to a party at the Café Opera nightclub.
Visit any car pound in Britain and you'll find all kinds of motors. Hatchbacks, saloons, maybe even a van or two. £80,000 Masteratis, not so much. Parisian Hedge fund manager Betrand Des Pallieres claimed he had been too busy setting up his new £170 million business to collect his Maserati Cambiocorsa, which had accrued £5,000 in parking fines and congestion charge penalties. The car had been towed from Lowndes Square in Knightsbridge, London, to a pound in White City. The 39-year-old said: "I only ever use the car in the summer, and this summer I have hardly been in London. In my defence, I would say parking in the car pound is not that expensive relative to the cost of parking in central London."
The nation's increasing waistlines mean many changes to the way we live. Clothes are getting bigger, portions larger, and TV companies are raking in huge profits by making get-fit-quick health programmes. And crash test dummies are getting fatter. The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP), which awards safety ratings for cars, is now using dummies which weigh in at 16 stone. With 22 per cent of British men now being obese, the models, which had remained unchanged since the 1950s, have been upgraded to match expanding European body mass. Weird Pic of the Week: A car only a mother could love What do you get if you cross an Alfa Romeo Brera, a Hyundai Sonata and a Daewoo Cielo? The ugliest car in the world.
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