German police last week said they were looking for a skateboarder who was filmed traveling around 100kph on a highway.
The skater can be seen on a film made available on video-sharing Web site YouTube, hanging onto a motorbike to get up to speed, before letting go and whizzing downhill along an autobahn (highway) in southern Germany.
German autobahns often have no speed limit but the stretch of road concerned outside Goeppingen near Stuttgart has a limit of 80kph.
PHOTO: EPA
According to reports, the man, dressed in the video in a red and black jumpsuit and an aerodynamic white helmet, is a stuntman and well-known international downhill skater. A comment on YouTube suggested he was Canadian.
But police were not amused, with spokesman Uli Stoeckle saying they were trying to find the skater and that he was being investigated for dangerous behavior. (AFP)
德國警方上週表示，他們正在追查一名滑板客，他被拍到以每小時約一百公里的速度在高速公路上狂飆。
這段影片被放在影音分享網YouTube上，影片中這名滑板客在德國南部一條高速公路上，先拉著一台重型機車加速，然後放手在下坡路段疾速狂飆。
德國的高速公路通常沒有速限，但哥平根（鄰近斯圖加特）郊區這段直線道路每小時限速八十公里。
根據報導，影片中身穿紅黑色連身服、頭戴流線型白色安全帽的男子是一個特技演員，也是國際上知名的下坡滑板好手。YouTube網站上有留言表示，他應該是加拿大人。
但警方並不覺得這樣的行為有趣；警方發言人烏利．史都可說，他們正在追查這名滑板客，並對他所做的危險舉動進行調查。
（法新社�翻譯：袁星塵）
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