Gizza lift mate?Cool. Keith Coleman, a Kiwi WWII veteran over in France commemorating the D-Day landings, missed his ride back to Paris. An "important looking guy wearing gold braid" came up to him and offered to fly him back on his private jet, an offer Keith took him up on.

Mr Coleman was whisked to another airfield, where he was served "the best red wine I've ever tasted" while waiting for the presidential cavalcade to arrive.

Great. Turned out, of course, the 'important looking guy' was French President Jacques Chirac. Even better is the response from his wife, on hearing the news...

"Oh my God ... I might have known that would happen. He's travelling alone and he is 86. Oh, no."

Ahaha! Like he gets picked up by foreign leaders every time he goes on a trip.

Seems the story is now doing the international newspaper rounds as a 'feelgood' story.
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