Interesting story Bob. Second City comedy group used to do a skit about gypsy's
Dave On 9/23/07, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
