A well-intended truck driver was prevented, by town officials, from throwing over $100,000 out of the window "because the building was air-conditioned. " Walter Maier from St. Sebastian, won a contest sponsored by radio station RPR1 in Ludwigshafen Germany where listeners were asked to come up with a novel use for the money. The radio station asked listeners to answer the question: "What would you do for 100,000 euros ($130,000). "

A survey conducted by an insurance and financial services group has shown that the majority of U. S. drivers do everything ranging from eating and reading to writing grocery lists and nursing babies when behind the wheel. Thirty-one percent of respondents admitted to day dreaming, and 14 percent of the surveyed drivers said they took advantage of time spent driving to discipline their children. The survey, conducted by Nationwide Mutual Insurance on more than 1,200 American drivers, showed that the majority of American drivers do all sorts of outlandish things while driving - including changing clothes, balancing a checkbook and even shaving.

A zoo in Australia is putting humans on public display in one of its orangutan enclosures for a month-long experiment that's been titled "the human zoo. " Groups of people taking part in the experiment will be locked in the enclosure during the zoo's opening hours for a week, and the public will be able to observe them through large perspex windows and live webcams. As of Tuesday evening, six people had put themselves in the orangutan enclosure at Adelaide Zoo. Animal behaviorists will be studying the caged humans to try to find ways to improve the living conditions of captive great apes.

Marriage plans for a Pennsylvania man were turned into a disaster after he allegedly hit his brand new fiancee to unconsciousness. The incident happened on New Year's Eve just hours after Stephen Mujerm Mbah, 40, proposed to his girlfriend Victorine Taboh. An argument between the two reportedly occurred Monday morning as they drove home from the party in northern York County. During the ride, Taboh and the passengers complained that Mbah was driving recklessly, prompting Mbah to stop the vehicle beside Interstate 83 in Springfield Township. As the two got out of the car they began to argue, the York Dispatch reported.

A man allegedly knocked out his girlfriend with a steering wheel lock just hours after proposing to her at a New Year's party. The argument broke out between the man Stephen Mujerm, 40, of Lanham, Md. , and new fiancee Victorine Taboh at about 6 a. m. Monday as they drove home from the party in northern York County.