The things you see
Submitted: Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:41
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Member - Alastair D (NSW)
Driving home last night on the M4 in
Sydney 3.0L Nissan Patrol around 2000 model travelling in middle lane at ~110k suddenly a big cloud of smoke and they headed for the side of the road slowing rapidly. Wonder what happened ??!!
Same trip saw a Lada Niva with 2 jerry cans tied onto the spare wheel. Managed a quick snap with the phone camera at the traffic lights. How long would that last? Would not like to be behind when it let loose. Will try and add picture.
Reply By: Des Lexic - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:46
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:46
You could write a song about the 3.0l Nissan motors.
Call it "Another one Bites The Dust" oh bugger, it's been done before. There goes my chance at fame and glory. LOL
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Follow Up By: Bware (Tweed Valley) - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:05
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:05
'Living on a Prayer'?
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Follow Up By: Joombi - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 13:58
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 13:58
"She bangs"???
"Shake, Rattle & Roll" perhaps?
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Follow Up By: Member - Scott M (NSW) - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 14:49
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 14:49
"The Final Countdown" ???
"Walking by Myself" ???
"The Honeymoon Is Over "??
"19th Nervous Breakdown" ?
"Cars Hiss By My Window" ?
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Reply By: Snowbunny - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:49
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:49
I thought the Waterways Authority got the last of those Lada's to use as moorings??
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Reply By: Member - Alastair D (NSW) - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:49
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:49
Picture added to rig gallery
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Follow Up By: Member - Cruiser (NSW) - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:38
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:38
Apart from being illegal, its plain stupid, but then again, what could you expect from someone who drives a Lada
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Follow Up By: Scubaroo - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 13:03
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 13:03
I saw a combi van in
Adelaide last year with about SIXTEEN jerrycans on the roof - 4 rows of 4. Most of the jerrycans were steel to boot.
That's about 320L of fuel on the roof, maybe 400kg or so counting the jerrycans?
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Follow Up By: oldbaz - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 13:43
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 13:43
In Vietnam 10 years ago our little tour bus passed a motorised cyclo loaded with
assorted sizes of plastic drums, sealed with bits of rag, full of petrol, about 3 tiers high including the rack over the drivers head. Nothing alarming about that, until you see the fag in his mouth!!!. Not a praying man normally but managed to jam in
a quick one...oldbaz.
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Follow Up By: joc45 - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 14:37
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 14:37
Oldbaz,
some years ago I was helping out on a power-dinghy race (
Blackwood Classic) and watched with terror at a refuelling point as a guy on the bank of the river was decanting petrol from a jerry to his outboard
tank. His wife was standing a metre away with a lighted cigarette in her dangling hand. I yelled out from a distance to her (I wasn't going to go any closer!) to put the cig out. She looked at me quite puzzled, so I said that it woudn't just ignite, it would most likely explode! She shrugged and tossed the cig into the river, wondering what all the fuss was about. Some people, just no idea! I was shaking for some time after that...
Gerry
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Follow Up By: Gramps (NSW) - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 16:37
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 16:37
Gerry,
Damn !!! Another missed opportunity to improve the gene pool LOL
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Follow Up By: Mr Fawlty - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 19:51
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 19:51
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Gramps Tsk Tsk Tsk.....
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Follow Up By: Geoff (Newcastle, NSW) - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 23:45
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 23:45
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Gramps I agree.
Where's the gene pools automatic chlorinator when it's needed!!
Geoff.
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Follow Up By: Gramps (NSW) - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:41
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:41
Basil/Geoff,
LOL
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Follow Up By: landseka - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:08
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:08
Joc45, a lot of ppl don't realise that it's IMPOSSIBLE to ignite petrol with a lighted ciggarette. I didn't believe it either til I tried it. You can toss a cigg into a puddle of petrol, into a can of it, wave it around over a spillage all to no effect. It is just not hot enough.
Light a ciggy with a match or lighter near petrol & you can expect fireworks though :-)
Regards
Neil.
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Follow Up By: Mr Fawlty - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:33
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:33
Yes that's wierd isn't it, but you can start a bush fire with a cigarette stub & smoking the things can easily kill you...
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Follow Up By: joc45 - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:07
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:07
landseka,
well there you go; I'm now enlightened. Didn't stop me at the time nearly having a heart attack.
Would be quite interested to know the science of this.
Now someone should tell the petrol companies about the myth of explosion with mobile phones and filling one's petrol
tank. And also pagers!
Gerry
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Reply By: Member - Willie , Epping .Syd. - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:14
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:14
Geez Alastair ,
That's nothing ! This morning I SAW AN X5 WITH MUD ON IT travelling along Epping Road . Unbelievable .
Cheers ,
Willie
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Follow Up By: BenSpoon - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 14:41
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 14:41
I dont believe a word of it... unless she got bogged on her front lawn.
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Follow Up By: Member - John R (NSW) - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 20:14
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 20:14
Stop telling lies, Willie :-)
I live in N. Ryde and it was clean when she drove past me. She was in the transit lane with no passengers either...
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Follow Up By: Member - Errol (York WA) - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 22:08
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 22:08
How's Ryde these days you bloks , bet it's change'd a bit since i was draged up there 50+ years ago . Live'd on Blaxland Rd about halfway to eastwood , across from some shops . Errol
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Epping .Syd. - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:09
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:09
John ,
Your are incorrect in your assumption that it was a female driver . My wife immediately quipped that he must have been driving his kids to cricket at one of the Kings School back ovals where they have dirt tracks .
Chers ,
Willie .
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Epping .Syd. - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:14
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:14
Hi Errol ,
I drove past your old house this morning on Blaxland road on my way to the dentist .
You would not recognise Eastwood these days . Gone are all the shops you new - they have been replaced with Chinese and Korean shops . They now call Eastwood Eastwoo .
Ryde is being rapidly developed with high rise units and a big new shopping complex .
Cheers ,
Willie .
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Epping .Syd. - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:18
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:18
Errol ,
Please label your photos in the "rig profile area " so I can see where you went .
Thanks ,
Willie .
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Follow Up By: Member - Errol (York WA) - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 15:19
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 15:19
No worries Willie , i'll see to it tonight . Carn't do it befor then , just home for lunch then i coach the local swim club till about 6 this arvo after work . Errol
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Follow Up By: Member - Errol (York WA) - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 22:00
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 22:00
Carn't work out to do it Willie . They were lablel'ed when i loaded them , but the label's didn't come over . This is what they are . 1 Baladje Rock ( north of Bulfinch WA) , 2 Mitchell River Crossing (Kimberly's ) 3 Me & Little Bill (somewhere
on the road) , 4 & 5
Camping near Lake Deborah ( North of Bullfinch) , 6 Desert Queenbaths (Rudell River N.P.) , 7 Mitchell River Falls ( Kimberly's ) , 8
Fishing on Coochiemudlo Island ( off
Brisbane ) , 9
Cook fire on
Oakover River (
Pilbara ) . Last to are my
suspension fix and my computer mount . I'll load one more for you . Little Bill on
Big Red . Errol
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Epping .Syd. - Friday, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:51
Friday, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:51
Thanks Errol ,
We have been to a couple of the same
places - D.Q. Baths , Oakover R.
I am an idiot with computers so I cannot advise you what happened to the tags . You could either ask the question of the members in a post , or go to the top of this page and click on
ABOUT US and then
FEEDBACK and ask the site managers if they know where you went wrong .
You should find out and fix it , because those photos without a tag mean little to most people visiting your rig and profile area .
Cheers ,
Willie .
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Reply By: Redback - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:49
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:49
Even more astonishing was a the 100s Cruiser with no mum and kids in it going to school that i saw this morning ;-))
Baz.
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Follow Up By: Member - Andrew W (SA) - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 14:44
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 14:44
mum was going to the
Melbourne Cup - it was better that they were driving me thinketh.
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Reply By: Member - Karl - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 16:04
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 16:04
A couple years ago in Townsville I saw a Landcruiser with two full jerry cans of petrol tied to the bull bar so they were between the bar and the grill.
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Reply By: Member - Shane D (QLD) - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 16:36
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 16:36
I know why he's put them jerrys there,he's sick of being tailgated by rav 4's and crv's
He's making a pro-active attempt to reduce the number of rear end collisions by giving following motorist added incentive NOT to tailgate.
Think about it, some-one arse ends the clown, they'll wear 40 liters of fuel and there GONE!
see, one less tailgater,off the road. lada drives off to create havoc on another freeway happily ever after
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Reply By: coll964 - Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 20:10
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2006 at 20:10
This still blows me away - no doubt a lot of you would have seen it before ???
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Reply By: Bilbo - Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:25
Thursday, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:25
Years ago, I spent about one year working in Indonesia. I had my own car with my own driver. Now, over there, when ya go to fill up it's mayhem. There's 2 guys to fill the tank, one to clean the windscreen, one to check the oil, 2 vacuum the car out, another to empty the ashtray etc,etc, (they'll even take yer old feller for a peee if ya pay 'em enough) - all looking for a gratuity of no small value of course.
BUT - it gets a bit hard to tip anyone, that despite screaming at him to "Get rid of that *****ing ciggy,pal!!, he continues to fill up yer petrol tank!!
It happened all the time.
Dumbass stupidity
Mind you, the oil industry expats used to call anywhere between the Tropic of Cancer and The
Tropic of Capricorn - "The Dumb Zone". Think about it - to a large degree, they are right!
Bilbo
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