Pedestrian charged for walking over car

Athens (ANTARA News) - A pedestrian has been charged with damaging
property after walking over a car that was parked illegally on the
sidewalk in Greece`s congested capital.

"I could not get past the vehicle, a four-wheel drive, which had been
parked right on the pavement so I got angry and just walked over it,
slightly denting its hood," Tasos Pouliasis told state television
Tuesday.

Greeks are notoriously unruly drivers leaving their cars on sidewalks, wheelchair ramps and even hospital entrances.

The owner of the vehicle in Athen`s Exarhia neighborhood saw him and
called police who arrested Pouliasis and his girlfriend and briefly
detained them in a police cell.

"Now I will be tried for property damage but police did not even bother
giving the car owner a parking ticket," Pouliasis told Reuters.(*)