That's a scary - something's about to happen. It reminds me a time when I was about 21, hitch-hiking around Europe with a girlfriend. We were in the South of France and were picked up by an articulated wagon driven by a couple of gypsies. As they drove off we realised they were drinking cheap wine from a bowl, and were completely pissed out of their heads. They both kept trying to grope my girlfriend, and the driver certainly wasn't in control of the truck - the rear trailer was swinging all over the road and it was clear that something bad was going to happen.
It did - the back trailer hit an oncoming caravan, which was being towed by a Dutch family of 5 people. The car and the family weren't hurt, but the caravan shattered into matchsticks. The truck driver took off at speed and tried to hide down a side road - not easy with a truck that size. By the time he stopped, the police had caught up, and they arrested us all, driving us back the way we had come. Naturally my gf and I gave witness statements against the gypsies, and we were released after about an hour. I assume (and hope) the gypsies were prosecuted, but we never heard any more of it. Luckily the family in the car were not harmed. A fraction of a second earlier and they would all have been killed. -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of David J Brooks > Sent: 23 September 2007 00:29 > To: Pentax Discuss > Cc: Barbara Brooks; Harry Bolton; Yvette Sheppard > Subject: Peso Stack o sticks > > Another from my trip to James Bay. > > Our detour road was a farly nice, but sometimes narrow, logging road. > We meet up with several of these stick trucks along the way. > > No load limits on private roads, as you may have quessed. I don't know > how these things don't tip over, but i'm sure they do. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6448976 > > Taken through the front window of the pickup. > > K10D 16-45 auto levels in PSCS and cropped a bit to bring the > loads up a bit. > > Dave > > -- > Equine Photography > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > Ontario Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
