Ancient Solution For Accident-Prone Highway

15 August 2003 - 4:00am

When nothing else works, call in the druids.

"Druids have been brought in to reduce the number of accidents on Austria's worst stretch of autobahn. Druids have put up huge roadside monoliths to restore the natural flow of 'earth energy'. After the one tonne pillars of white quartz were erected beside a notorious stretch of road during a secret two-year trial, the number of fatal accidents fell from an average of six a year to zero."

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, August 11, 2003
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