A German truck driver smashed his lorry into a parked car after wrongly thinking it looked like a get-away vehicle.

The 46-year-old from Duisburg then called police and proudly told them he had foiled the crooks' plot to make a quick getaway by disabling their transport.

The man, who admitted later he "may have over-reacted", spotted the car parked outside a bank at Ohlsdorf in Austria.

He glanced inside saw a crowbar and other tools lying on the back seat.

Convinced he had spotted a crook's getaway vehicle and that the criminals were about to escape, he ran to his lorry and drove it into the side of the car, leaving it a write-off.

He then called the cops to report his bravery, who raced to the scene just as the car's bemused owner, a father of four who is a self-employed carpenter, returned to his vehicle.

Instead of getting praise for his actions, the lorry driver now faces a £4,000 fine and losing his licence, plus the cost of repairs to his own vehicle.

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'bemused' ...? as in confused....


I think his reaction would have been more along the lines of "OH MY GOD! WHAT THE *beep* HAVE YOU DONE TO MY *beep* CAR! You *beep* *beep*"

Lucky for him the horn still worked.

lol It took me 20 seconds for me to get that, but now I can't stop laughing.

Wow.

The stupidity of it all leaves me speechless. . . . . . .

It really does makes you wonder what other people are thinking, thats trully is a show of human stupidity at its greatest there. At least his intentions were good!

I....I...

maybe he should have thought about parking behind it so it couldn't get aways

Lol.... he should've waited for the crook to come running out the bank with bags of loot and then acted rather than think everyone with a crow bar is a criminal.... plus didn't he think that even if he was the crook... he didn't have the crowbar with him..... lol

Oh dear...his intentions probably were admirable but what an idiot!

admirable indeed, but stupid

Joke is, if it had been a crook, he'd be a hero