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...fallen asleep in his car at a service station near Aschaffenburg. Officers found Peter Murray-Cowan, 39, dozing at the wheel of an Audi so stuffed with boxes of what appeared to be Microsoft Office 97 Professional software that the car was barely drivable. Sensing counterfeit, police took both driver and 4,000 copies of one of the world's most popular business programs - worth $2 million on the retail market, according to Microsoft - into custody. Murray-Cowan, a British businessman and would-be politician who ran for local office in Suffolk in 1999, was already wanted there for jumping...
...turned out to be a trek in itself. I hitched a ride on the twice-weekly mail truck from the South Australian opal-mining town of Coober Pedy to Warriner, a long-abandoned railway depot in the middle of nowhere. "You'll be all right with Phil," the cheerful driver assured me. "He's a bit of a bushie." It wasn't a reference to his foot-long beard. Wearing a check shirt and a tall, rabbit-felt hat, trek leader Phil Gee looked the part of a man more comfortable in the outback than indoors...
...from the train depots. The railroad on which it runs is often subjected to the intense weather of the Australian outback. Flash floods and sand drifts would sometimes block the line for days. Once, a train was stranded in the middle of the outback for two weeks; the driver shot wild goats to feed the passengers. Even construction of the rest of the line?originally intended to link the South Australian capital of Adelaide to Darwin in the north?has been held up. Work on the southern section started in 1878, only to reach halfway across the continent at Alice...
...Don’t let me miss the bridge,” its driver mumbles...
...Officers were sent to Prescott St. on the report of a motor vehicle crashing into parked cars. CPD arrived and arrested the driver for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol...