SYDNEY, Australia - Police charged an Australian driver with "reversing further than necessary" after he traveled backward for more than 40 kilometers (25 miles) along one of the country's busiest highways
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When my Joe and I were young and reckless, his car's transmission went kablooey on the way to Cape Cod, and we managed to get it to a garage in Providence, RI. They gave us a ride to a rent-a-car off in the boondocks. Then we had to get back to the garage for our luggage.
Joe got to downtown Providence, found the right street, but it was one-way in the wrong direction, so he proceeded to head in the right direction and "just back up a little"--thirteen blocks.
They told us it actually had been a two-way street for the last 10 blocks of our ride.