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Police Stop Skateboarder on Motorway...

by Blake Cook Jul 24, 2004 1:28PM PDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Shocked German motorists found themselves sharing a motorway with a Swedish vacationer traveling by skateboard until police prevailed upon him to seek safer passage home, authorities said Friday.

"He said he was down to his last two euros and couldn't afford a train ticket," said a spokesman for police in the West Palatinate region of southwest Germany. "The man said he didn't think using the autobahn would be a problem."

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