Post by axenige on Jun 13, 2007 1:11:56 GMT 1
Again this is a result of an on going new theme, which has now spilled over into chat at the last meet. So if you have any funny story's about bumps and scrapes in a car by friends and family, or even yourself then tell us all about them. Mr Animalbus has already had me in stitches with one of his so lets here some more.
The funniest sight I've ever seen was a result of an incident at my old place of work many year ago. I used to work with an old friend from school and his Dad, one day we had a really drunk guy came into the showroom, and things got very out of hand. The guy eventually left and was on his way back to his car,blind drunk I will add, when the police turned up. The copper then stood in front of the car and demanded that the man got out. Instead the guy floored his car and the poor old policeman had to dive out the way, him going one way and his helmet going the other,shouting Stoooooooooooooooooop as he hit the ground. This just like watching an episode of the "Bill" I thought to myself at the time ;D
LandRoller,my worst accident
The worst accident I've ever had was also while working for the same company. This involved a very large trailer, the section of the A45 at sixfields by the cinema a 110 Landrover Defender oh and me of course. The trailer was a local mobile Dental unit which was 40Ft long and had a Two ton tall lift at the rear, for wheel chair access into the unit The problem was that the trailer was very out of balance and so you had to keep your speed below 25 Mph. I had driven with this unit on the Landrover before and had no problems. But what I'd forgotten was that there was a roundabout on this stretch of road and I was going down hill coming from the Weedon Road direction. The trailer started to push me down the hill and over the 30mph mark. Next thing I knew the trailer was weaving from one side of the road to other, and was rocking,rolling and shaking the landrover better than Elvis ever did on stage, Oh $hit I thought to myself here we go
. The trailer flipped over and with whip like action lifted The 3 ton Landrover off the ground and up into the air as if it weighed a few kilo's, the landy then rolled three quarters of the way over on to it's roof then back again, before finally coming to rest on it's side, this was while traveling backwards at the same time, of course ;D, The Landy had stayed attached to the trailer even after it had gone over, so I went from traveling forwards at 35Mph, to first sideways then backwards at about the same speed for a distance of 30 ft, before coming to a complete halt. On my sideways travels I also took out the main road sign for the A45, the curb stone, and the fence behind it, which was by Pizza Hut (as it was then), plus finally I had also killed a section of poor Innocent hedging which had never said a bad word about me ever.
Oh I forgot to mention I'd also managed block both lanes of the eastern side of Upton way just for good measure, bringing the rush hour traffic to a complete standstill.
As you can tell I don't do things by halves
The funniest sight I've ever seen was a result of an incident at my old place of work many year ago. I used to work with an old friend from school and his Dad, one day we had a really drunk guy came into the showroom, and things got very out of hand. The guy eventually left and was on his way back to his car,blind drunk I will add, when the police turned up. The copper then stood in front of the car and demanded that the man got out. Instead the guy floored his car and the poor old policeman had to dive out the way, him going one way and his helmet going the other,shouting Stoooooooooooooooooop as he hit the ground. This just like watching an episode of the "Bill" I thought to myself at the time ;D
LandRoller,my worst accident
The worst accident I've ever had was also while working for the same company. This involved a very large trailer, the section of the A45 at sixfields by the cinema a 110 Landrover Defender oh and me of course. The trailer was a local mobile Dental unit which was 40Ft long and had a Two ton tall lift at the rear, for wheel chair access into the unit The problem was that the trailer was very out of balance and so you had to keep your speed below 25 Mph. I had driven with this unit on the Landrover before and had no problems. But what I'd forgotten was that there was a roundabout on this stretch of road and I was going down hill coming from the Weedon Road direction. The trailer started to push me down the hill and over the 30mph mark. Next thing I knew the trailer was weaving from one side of the road to other, and was rocking,rolling and shaking the landrover better than Elvis ever did on stage, Oh $hit I thought to myself here we go
. The trailer flipped over and with whip like action lifted The 3 ton Landrover off the ground and up into the air as if it weighed a few kilo's, the landy then rolled three quarters of the way over on to it's roof then back again, before finally coming to rest on it's side, this was while traveling backwards at the same time, of course ;D, The Landy had stayed attached to the trailer even after it had gone over, so I went from traveling forwards at 35Mph, to first sideways then backwards at about the same speed for a distance of 30 ft, before coming to a complete halt. On my sideways travels I also took out the main road sign for the A45, the curb stone, and the fence behind it, which was by Pizza Hut (as it was then), plus finally I had also killed a section of poor Innocent hedging which had never said a bad word about me ever.Oh I forgot to mention I'd also managed block both lanes of the eastern side of Upton way just for good measure, bringing the rush hour traffic to a complete standstill.
As you can tell I don't do things by halves