On 23/1/09, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed: >It's not a lot of fun if you get there before the police arrive, either. >Many years ago I was driving up the M6 with some friends when we spotted >a group of cars pulled off at the side of the road. We found that an old >car (a gift to the young couple in it from the father of one of them, who >was one of the other drivers present at the scene) had gone off the road >and overturned. When I got there everybody was trying to lift the car up >so they could free the young woman passenger - she hadn't been wearing a >seat belt, and had gone through the windscreen. I could see this wasn't >going to do any good, but at least they weren't going to do her any more >harm; she was beyond help. I got what details I could, and sent somebody >off to call the police. It was only when I started asking more questions >that I got to the important one - how many people had been in the car? >Until then nobody had even thought about that. There was a three-year-old >boy in the back of the car, basically unharmed except for minor scratches. >I got him out and sat him in the back of my car to keep him warm. One of >my passengers was a primary school teacher, so she knew how to deal with >children, which was more than I did! > >Eventually the police arrived and dealt with everything. When I eventually >got to leave around an hour later I didn't quite make it to the filling >station - I'd used up just a little too much fuel running the car on idle >to keep the heater going while we were looking after the youngster, so I >had to walk the last half mile carrying a petrol can.
You sir are a trooper! Excellent story. Good karma comes around again. Except for the beard ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
