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02-02-2006, 08:31 AM
BERLIN (Reuters) - Officers soon saw through a German driver who posed as an acquaintance when he was stopped for drunk driving -- he forgot his alter ego had a glass eye, police said Tuesday.
Police in the western city of Bochum said the driver's details seemed to be correct when he told them who he was -- until their records showed the man matching his description was registered as having a glass eye. A torch beam shone in face soon disproved this, however.
"His eye responded to stimulus. So then he said he used to have a glass eye, but didn't any more," said a Bochum police spokesman.
"It seems he was impersonating someone he knew well.
A search uncovered the man's true identity, and that he had already lost his license for a previous offence.
(http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-02-01T160529Z_01_L30697994_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMANY-EYE.xml)
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Police in the western city of Bochum said the driver's details seemed to be correct when he told them who he was -- until their records showed the man matching his description was registered as having a glass eye. A torch beam shone in face soon disproved this, however.
"His eye responded to stimulus. So then he said he used to have a glass eye, but didn't any more," said a Bochum police spokesman.
"It seems he was impersonating someone he knew well.
A search uncovered the man's true identity, and that he had already lost his license for a previous offence.
(http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-02-01T160529Z_01_L30697994_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMANY-EYE.xml)
REUTERS (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-02-01T160529Z_01_L30697994_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMANY-EYE.xml)