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Granny stunt driver.....
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:38 pm
by jamie
Made me laugh!
She claims she hit the throttle instead of the brake
Good skills through
Wathc the vid bellow
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.ht ... _page_id=2
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:16 pm
by james
Anyone that can't park near enough to the pump, requires help filling up and then manages to confuse the accelerator with the brake should be forced to take a new driving test before being let loose on the roads again
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:53 pm
by scottyf
About as good as the old dear I was following yesterday who got confused at a set of roadworks we were about to join at a mini roundabout in Arbroath. She neglected to see that the opposite side of the road was completely closed but still managed to negotiate the cones designed to stop people from entering the road works and ended up face to face with a JCB and just sat there...confused.
Makes you wonder...There are some mental OAP's on the road these days
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:31 pm
by Dominic
scottyf wrote:
Makes you wonder...There are some mental OAP's on the road these days
That's no way to talk about TUT
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:19 pm
by tut
Just got in, so last in line.
Absolutey agree. Anybody over 65 should have to re-sit their test, do a medical, and be able to run a mile in 5.5 mins.
Unless they have a racing licence of course, even preferably a pilots licence as well, then they would be exempt.
tut
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:39 pm
by tut
ps You know how you always remember your first car?
Same goes for your first helicopter...........
tut
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:47 pm
by tut
pss Publicity shot of course, as I was the first pilot in the Royal Marines, but Tom Cruise, eat your heart out, I did it for real.
Mind you he got Kelly McGillis..........
tut
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:54 pm
by tut
psss It looks like a bloody Meccano set. Did we even have helicopters 45 years ago? Must have, but how did it stay up in the air?
Robin could probably explain, but I must have been mad.
tut
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:57 pm
by tut
pssss Its not even got doors for gawds sake. Bank to the left, seat belt comes undone, and your dead.
tut
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:03 pm
by Rich H
I think that the best description of how a helicopters fly is magic, when they run out of magic they crash, or something....
They havent changed in 45 years they just covered up the mecano with tinplate and tape then bolted on a couple of doors...
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:09 pm
by Rich H
They put me on a Unit Enquiry (Investigation) into a dropped septic tank worth £20k dropped from under a heclimacopter (sp) when I had 2 weeks left in Northern Ireland and I had to fly around in a Gazelle-thing. It was great apart from:
Looking at the ground through the gaps in the doors.
No dual controls, where they should have been there was a neat little blanking plate.
Rain, everywhere, the most distressing place being coming out of the instrument panel infront of me and hitting me in the face....
Suffice to say I'm not a happy flyer unless there is stewardess service and free drinks....
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:27 pm
by Dominic
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:54 pm
by tut
Gazelle? Bloody luxury.
There were 10 of us living in a Bell 47G in a hole in the middle of the road.
tut
Dominic
Is this adding to the last one, or do I have to learn a new skill?
tut
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:59 am
by ExigeKen
Tut<
Were you in Mash
I have been a passenger in a Bell 47 and thought it was amazing.
It must have been brilliant to fly it.
Great photo.
Ken.
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:04 pm
by tut
Even I was too young for the Korean war Ken.........
tut
