This is just a random story that I found highly amusing.
After spending one night at Kingston (a suburb in London), we made our way 3 hours south/west to a small country town called Spaxton. I'm sure that's where Heartbeat was filmed, it looked exactly the same! Anyway we stayed with some friends who live in this town and after welcoming us warmly with bottles of red wine, white wine, cider, and liqueur, they decided that it was then an appropriate time to tell us about the locals. So the story goes...there is a man who lives in Spaxton that actually thinks he is a lorry truck, so much so that he actually runs along the road and toots his imaginary lorry horn in his imaginary lorry truck. One might think this is slightly peculiar, however the plot thickens da da daaaa! One day this delightful young lorry driver was making the rounds of Spaxton and as he did this an unmarked police car (also a local, it figures!) pulls the lorry driver over and tells him he has been speeding. So in accordance with the law the officer issues the lorry driver a speeding ticket. So we have a happy bunch of Spaxtonite's all round; the lorry driver finds someone else as bat shit crazy as him, and the police officer makes his quota. Ahhhhh yes, small country towns you just can't beat the smell of fresh air in the morning, and the sight of a man who thinks he's a lorry.
