Housebreaking

Dude, I think it's about time to move to a new house.

A German man said Thursday he feared he may have built his own tomb after a vehicle ploughed into his house for the 10th time.

"If we stay, someone's eventually going to kill us. We're living in a time bomb," Manfred Sedlazek, 59, told Reuters.

Sedlazek is reluctant to leave the house he built himself, which is on a bend of a busy road, but said it may be his only chance of survival.

Earlier this week, a 40-tonne truck blasted through the side of the red-brick house in the village of Karlshoefen, in northern Germany. Sedlazek returned home from shopping to find the shattered vehicle sticking out of his living room.

The damage in this case was estimated at about the equivalent of $136,000. Previous crashes have wrecked his kitchen and bedroom.

I don't know how property insurance works in Germany, but I can't imagine there are many companies eager to sell him a homeowner's policy at this point.