French hitchhiker arrested for flipping out after 4 days without a ride
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.*
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 on Monday.* Read more...