I was going back home on Saturday night 1:30 AM, driving on the Hardbrucke (for whom who doesn't know it, it's a bridge, wide as a football field and long as an airport track, with speed limit 50); as I'm prone to speeding and I don't want to get a fine I used the cruise control to keep speed at 50.

While on the bridge I spotted a minivan in my rear mirror, that, despite not having flashing lights, was looking quite like a police van.

Then I approached the Rosengartenstrasse uphill (and passed by a fixed speed camera there, driving 50 ... cruise control).

While driving uphill the van behind started flashing lights, and turned on a big red STOP sign.

I tought: "I did know it ...", and stopped.

The policeman came and asked for the documents, then asked me if I did drink something, I told him I drank a glass of wine 4 hours before (true) and he asked me to do the alcool test. I blew in the thing and he was disappointed reading "Null".

Then he told me that I was doing zigzag on the bridge (false) and I told him "Nein!", he then asked me again if I was "müde" (tired), "betrunken" (drunk ... didn't he read the zero on the thing ?), or if I was speeding (! ... there is a speed camera there ... !).

The word "müde" triggered in me a far away memory of something I read on 20 minuten maybe one or two months ago: something about people complaining because the police retired thier driving license based on the fact they where driving while too much tired ...

Anyway I told him firmly: "Nein, nein, nein" and he finally gave up. "Schönen Abend" and let me go.

Did anybody have similar experience, or remember about this article on 20 minuten ?

Ciaociao

Fabrizio