It was nine in the evening in Salobreña when a Guardia Civil check-point spotted a driver going around a roundabout in the wrong direction. The junction in question is the one just across the river behind the beach road.

The police were impressed because as they watched, two cars using the junction correctly had to swerve out of the way. The police decided to follow and were rewarded for their curiosity by watching the driver doing the same thing again at the next roundabout.

Perhaps because he realized that he had “company,” he continued, but now with his headlights switched off, which although enterprising did not have the same invisibility effectiveness as a B1 stealth bomber.

By the time he had negotiated the third roundabout in the same fashion, but this time without any lights, the Guardia Civil, who had called another patrol car to join the fun, thought it time for them all to get to know each other, so them pulled him over, blocking him in. He tried to reverse out but remained trapped.

There he sat as the four policemen approached to ask him for his paperwork, which was when he rammed the door open catching one of the policemen off guard. There ensued a general melee involving one reluctant driver and four jubilant policemen.

But things weren’t all going the policemen’s way because the point that they had trapped the driver just happened to be outside his house, and the 4-to-1 odds rapidly declined as a group of his acquaintances decided to lend a hand.

After an extended, “interesting” moment, the man was arrested and his friends went home to sulk.

…And, in case you’re wondering, it wasn’t a Brit with left-hand-drive limitations.

(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)