Snow Sculpture Gets Parking Ticket

Did you hear about this? There's at least one embarrassed traffic cop in Aachen, Germany. Pranksters there created a full-sized snow sculpture of a Volkswagen Beetle -- and built it in a no parking zone. It was complete with outlines for its headlights, windshields and even the distinctive VW badge on the hood. In fact, it looked so realistic, a police officer started to write a ticket for the "vehicle." But he discovered he'd been had when he tried to scrape the snow off the number plate and found there was nothing but snow. A police spokesman said: "We can take a joke as well as the next person and it was a very convincing prank. But whether it was made of metal or snow it was still obstructing a road that should have been clear."