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09-20-2016, 12:31 PM
French hitchhiker arrested for flipping out after 4 days without a ride
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Hitchhiking can be an exhilarating experience for the brazen, but a frustrated Frenchman travelling in New Zealand has found it to be quite the ordeal.
Cedric Claude Rene Rault-Verpre, 27, couldn't get a lift out of the small town of Punakaiki, so he allegedly took out his anger at road signs in the area.*
SEE ALSO: A racial slur taints 'Real Housewives' and the explanation is pretty nuts (http://mashable.com/2016/09/20/nword-real-housewives-auckland/)
Witnesses said they saw him verbally abuse people, threw rocks at a sign, while a**ther sign had appeared to have been pulled out and thrown into the nearby Punakaiki River.*
"We found one in the bushes last night and one had been thrown in the river," local man Neil Mouat told Westport News (http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11712840) on Monday.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/20/new-zealand-french-hitchhiker/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Hitchhiking can be an exhilarating experience for the brazen, but a frustrated Frenchman travelling in New Zealand has found it to be quite the ordeal.
Cedric Claude Rene Rault-Verpre, 27, couldn't get a lift out of the small town of Punakaiki, so he allegedly took out his anger at road signs in the area.*
SEE ALSO: A racial slur taints 'Real Housewives' and the explanation is pretty nuts (http://mashable.com/2016/09/20/nword-real-housewives-auckland/)
Witnesses said they saw him verbally abuse people, threw rocks at a sign, while a**ther sign had appeared to have been pulled out and thrown into the nearby Punakaiki River.*
"We found one in the bushes last night and one had been thrown in the river," local man Neil Mouat told Westport News (http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11712840) on Monday.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/20/new-zealand-french-hitchhiker/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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