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This week:

Bus driver coached

I gave directions to Paul McKenna once. In Liverpool. But at least I didn't have to direct him to three cities.

Earlier this week passengers on a National Express coach had to direct their driver and co-driver to Warwick, Coventry and Bradford.

The first sign of trouble came when the bus pulled over before it had left Heathrow airport.

Passenger Mark Temple said: "We had only left Terminal Two for two minutes when the coach stopped and they started to look at a map. I had to go up the front and direct the driver out onto the M4, then to the M25 and onto the M40 for Warwick."

The Polish drivers had hand-written notes for the route, but had to be directed back onto the M40 when they accidentally drove the bus through Oxford.

National Express apologised and said the regular drivers were unavailable at short notice.

Buffalo stance

So you've got an audio setup in your motor that could shatter windows at fifty paces, and bass which registers on the Richter scale.

Just don't drive your car through Buffalo, New York.

Buffalo Council President David A. Franczyk is attempting to make it illegal to enter the city with a stereo capable of playing loud music.

Mr Franczyk said: "These boom wagons, bunker busting, noise blasting, obnoxious, in your face cars are worse than ever,"

Rick A. Mathies of the Mobile Enhancement Retailers Association said: "What are you going to do? Post large signs at all entrances to the city saying, 'Don't come here if you have a certain kind of stereo in your car?'"

£10,000 reward

British superbike champ Shane 'Shakey' Byrne has had not one but two £120,000 race bikes stolen this week.

Thieves took the bikes from a locked garage on Tuesday night, the day before crucial testing at the Croft circuit in North Yorkshire.

Team boss Robert Wicks said: "Shakey's bikes were tailored to suit him, with one-off fitments and hand-built engines. To replace these will be immensely difficult and it sets us and Shakey back a long way."

The team are offering a £10,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of the bikes.

B... b... b... b... bear!

When you get back to your car after a stroll round the park you might expect your motor to be a bit toasty, or perhaps have a pigeon on the roof.

What you might not expect is for a bear to be sitting in the passenger seat, drinking your beer and eating your pizza.

One smarter-than-the-average bear (right) climbed into a convertible in Stateline, Nevada and downed the tasty meal in full view of onlookers.

Bystander Jerry Patterson said: "The bear was loping along in the parking lot and then decides to get inside the car."

I thought they just swiped pickernick baskets.

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