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From: "Cotty" <[email protected]>
To: "pentax list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: We shall overcome um um, some day
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.
Hear, Hear! Great story John Francis! Cheers, Christine
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