Hi Folks,
My wife and I just got back from a quick trip through Central QLD. While checking out some tracks one day while we were away we came up to a pretty decent sandy
hill only to find a vehicle stopped in front of us blocking the road. I thought they must have been stuck and so I got out and asked the driver if all was Ok. He explained to me that about 100 metres up the
hill a car was bogged and until he got out the track was blocked.
With this in mind my wife and I walked up the
hill and the 100 metres (felt like a mile but that's another story), only to find an elderly couple in a Challenger bogged and in strife. The guy had some decent recovery gear and I set about helping get him out. We got his shovel out and freed up his
wheels and underbody, dropped his pressure but despite this when he started up the car wasn't going far.
I really wanted to get my car up there and try a snatch recovery so I went back down the
hill but the original guy I spoke to refused point blank to either shift his car and let me through or to take his car up the
hill for help.
I then did the walk up the
hill and kept working on the bogged car. During this time another three four wheel drives arrived and formed a queue behind my car and it became apparent that they knew the guy in the first car, the one who wouldn't help. By this stage I was busting my gut and not getting far and my wife called out to this group of now around five adult men aged from around 18 to approx 50 for a hand. They just ignored her and didn't even do anything.
After about three quarters of an hour a car coming the other way along the track came up to us and with his help all was fixed up.
My wife and I then walked back down to our car and I made a comment about thanks for all of your help. Probably shouldn't have said that but we were really bleep off.
These guys just encircled us and told us to shut our smart ****ing mouths or else we wouldn't be so lucky to get out of the bush. It still wasn't going to be easy as they made no effort to let us get our car out or the guy who had helped up on the
hill.
Discretely grabbed some rego numbers and passed this on to the local police but that night while we were having a beer we thought how lucky we were to get out of that without having bigger problems than we did.
Still pretty gobsmacked about this episode though and just wanted to share it with you folk.
Have never had anything like this happen before and have been involved in a lot of retrievals over the years.
Have a good one.