We think the it’s bad in the UK. Eyes roll when a Community Equality Outreach Team Support Officer (Policy Division) feels the need to tick boxes before you can change a lightbulb. But from the Romanian Times we learn that things can be just as bad overseas…

Cash-strapped road bosses have fired a full-time team of druids who were hired to reduce accident rates on motorways by tapping into secret earth energy lines.

The team – which has been on the payroll with Austria’s motorway authority ASFINAG for 15 years were fired after critics dismissed their work as worthless.

The druids – who place tiny Stonhenge-style stones beside accident blackspots – claim to be responsible for reducing accident numbers to zero on some dangerous stretches of road.

Druid Ilmar Tessmann said: “Employing a druidic expert to test the flow of energy costs about 2,500 GBP – virtually nil compared to resurfacing a road or repairing a crash barrier – never mind the loss of human life.”

To be fair though…less annoying than speed cameras.