AFP, Sydney
A Frenchman was found still enjoying his McDonald’s when police detained him yesterday for allegedly crashing a car into a fountain in Sydney, the force said.“Strangely, he was still eating Macca’s there,” Police Inspector Anderson Lessing said; perhaps a greater crime in the eyes of some of his gastronomy-loving countrymen.The 21-year-old was charged with negligent driving after police said he reversed an SUV into the Archibald Fountain in Sydney’s Hyde Park in the early hours of yesterday morning.
A New South Wales police officer talks to a 21-year-old French man enjoying some McDonald’s after allegedly crashing an SUV into the Archibald Fountain in downtown Sydney’s Hyde Park yesterday.
“Half of it was sticking inside, and half it was sticking out, with the driver still inside,” Lessing said in an interview with a local radio station. Photos released by police showed the car’s rear wheels stuck in the fountain’s pool, with the rest of the vehicle propped up on the stone sidewall.
Police said the man had said he was delivering a food order when the crash occurred, with estimated damage of at least A$15,000 (US$10,747). The man was uninjured. Police did not elaborate on the contents of the McDonald’s order.
