Sheriff Klein-Stuebber Lays down the law in the wild wild West Country!

Spouses and parents take note! It's been on the christmas list of every serious Gappster since January and in just a weeks time it will finally be released. Sheriff Klein-Stuebber's photo montage of his now legendary tour of West Country Britain.

Being Britain's most popular internet publication for the parking enthusiast, we have been offered the chance to get a sneak preview of some of the 5000 photographs contained within.

Some Shots are humorous examples of bad parking...

Sadly there will be no opportunity to speak to the charismatic German this time around, as he has other commitments. But fingers crossed we will be able to get our hands on him for an in-depth interview at some point in the new year...

Some are just simply WOW....

Flicking through 'Eine Kleine Pachmusik' (yes I did get a press copy... yes it is on my coffee table and yes it is as impressive as we all knew it would be) I find myself blown away by the consistency of the man.

Others display the artistic, cryptic elements
of Sheriffs character, like this one of the
Puppy Truck at Weston super-Mare...

 labelled by Klien-Stuebber as simply
 'Self Portrait' without any further explanation.

If you look closely it is possibly to
see the reflection of Sheriff's giraffe, 'Mutti'

 He is always dead central with wheels perfectly level, and a two inch gap between himself and the kirb stones.

While I have not been allowed to publish them, I was extremely impressed with the 'Alpine' section of the book. Klein-Stuebber puts his little red KA in to a super tight slot on Vale Road in Totterdown, Bristol (a contender for the steepest road in britain), and when he's done he plants a German flag at the top of it.

This seemed fair enough to me but some offence was taken and I was saddened to see that there are a few shots of it being torn down and burned by the locals, but from what I remember of the day it was all in fun.

It's not just the residents of Totterdown that Klein-Steubber has angered over the years.

Germans in particular were angered when he switched from a VW Beetle to a car that is essentially and american rip off of the beetle. Sheriff has consistently ignored such jingoistic criticism and has chosen time after time to do his talking with his parking. It's often claimed that he likes the KA for the same reason that many of the small-auto pro's do: The soft bumpers that bend and flex when your in a tight spot rather than gouging a hole through your markers. Even this is controversial as many purists content that Parking in a strictly non-contact sport, and that using bumpers at all is equivalent to loading up on steroids before a foot race.

For the record, I've never seen the German so much as brush a fender, but ironically in 1989 (the year the berlin wall came down and Sheriff found his way into a Western competition for the first time) he did test positive for large dose of anabolic steroids only to be cleared on the grounds that he had been proscribed them to help him recover from a chronic boat of pleurisy and that and the judges could find no way in which having extra strength would be an advantage in the age of power steering. What ever was going on in those crazy days of the iron curtain the truth about these events, like so much about the man, remain an enigma.

With an ability to pre-measure
gaps to the millimetre using only his mind...
Its no wonder that Sheriff Klein-Stuebber
is the international star he is today.

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'Saftey First' is a popular
humorous catch-phrase in Germany

Can lighting strike twice in the same place...
maybe, see below.

Same gap... Different Plannet.