FORGET THE flying Dutchman; Holland is now home to the lying Dutch woman. A lovesick 35-year-old woman triggered an eight-hour cross-country police chase on Thursday after claiming to have been kidnapped.
Early in the afternoon, she sent a text message to her partner claiming two eastern European man had forced their way into her car and were speeding towards the German border. The alarmed partner informed the police, who began to monitor the progress of the phone signal over the border into Germany, through the states of Hesse and into Franconia, in northern Bavaria.
As evening approached and the car neared the city of Würzburg, a team of German commandos blocked the A3 motorway and stopped the black Seat car. At the wheel they found the woman, alone and very surprised.
“During questioning it came out that she was having a relationship crisis,” said a police spokesperson in Würzburg. “I take it she only wanted to put pressure on her partner and wasn’t aware of the police deployment it would cause.” The woman faces charges at home for feigning a kidnap and a bill in Germany for tens of thousands of euro for the deployment of commandos and helicopters.
