...that Aussie men are complete idiots, even when not drunk!
A man pulled over for driving slowly in the Australian outback has been charged with reckless driving - because police found him driving in reverse.
The man was stopped for driving at a little over 56 km/h (35 mph) on a highway near the outback town of Kalgoorlie.
But quick police work soon established that the car was in fact heading backwards - all the way to Perth, some 550 km (340 miles) across the desert.
The driver, 22, told police he chose to drive in reverse when his gears failed.
Police were left baffled as to why unnamed driver chose not to call a mechanic from Kalgoorlie, the Western Australia gold mining town where his gearbox "cooked".
Instead they listened as he explained how he set off in reverse gear along the Great Eastern Highway in his 1988 Ford.
He was forced to slow down from his top speed of 80 km/h because he found himself swerving wildly across the road, police said.
He had already travelled 20 km before he was stopped.
Police breathalysed the man, who was found not to be under the influence of alcohol.
Backward about driving forward
By Braden Quartermaine
October 06, 2006 02:00 pm
SHOCKED traffic police have caught a man who was attempting to drive 600 km from Kalgoorlie to Perth - in reverse.
Police from the traffic-enforcement group could not believe their eyes yesterday when they saw an early-model Ford LTD coming over a hill near Coolgardie doing 66 km/h - in reverse.
The driver told police he had transmission problems and could not use the forward gears.
He said he had been travelling at up to 80 km/h, but had to slow to about 65 km/h because he was swerving too much.
The driver had covered 20 km in reverse along Great Eastern Highway before being stopped.
He was breath tested and returned a negative reading.
The 22-year-old was charged with reckless driving and other traffic offences. He will appear in Coolgardie Magistrate's Court on Monday.
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