A junior "joy-rider"drove out of a Londonderry toyshop in a motorised miniature truck earlier this year and disappeared down the road. The shop owner said the small boy could be seen on a security video tape calmly driving the £300 toy from the shop, followed by two adults. The boy and the toy have not been found. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clip-on ties have been issued to the staff of a wheel-clamping firm in Lyons, France, after an 82 year old man strangled a member of the clamping team who was about to shackle his car. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Videos of wrecked American cars have become best-sellers among car fanatics in the US. The video tapes compiled by a 47 year old man from Jackson, Alabama, are shot in car breakers' yards and have netted him a small fortune. He said that the enthusiasm was such that "one guy watched Scrapyards of Texas every day for a week. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Catholic priest in Madrid has been asked to keep sermons brief since his congregation are regularly issued with parking tickets while in church. David