Further to Axle's "Property Off The Back Of A Truck" story.

Another story from around a similar area.

Many years ago when I was a pup, we were coming home from a big friday night in Gundi all full of rum and bad manners. Well! thank god we weren't to blind, because in front of us on the Weir highway (goat track then) was a lady in the middle of the road, sitting on the bench seat of a landrover crying her eyes out.

Won't mention names but it was a neighbors wife, they had a blue, so Howard picks her and the seat up and dumps her on the road.

She sure was glad to see us.

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A couple of years ago, driving to the local shopping centre, a truck with concreting gear on the back, goes around the roundabout, and loses one of those petrol driven "helicopters" they use for smoothing out their work. He didn't notice, so I stop and pick it up. I then proceed to chase him, catch up and try to get his attention. Bip the horn, wave, call out the window etc... All he does.... wait for it... is give me the bird.... then ignored me. He then sped off as fast as his Izusu, or whatever it was, would carry him. The rear number plate was covered in concrete, and no sign on the side.

So I thought "blow this", went and did my shopping, then went home. Two weeks later, talking to a mate, who is also a concreter, he mentions that his $800 "helicopter" is busted, and doesn't have the cash to replace it.

So I ask he he would like a 2nd hand one for free... naturally he says yes, and goes home happy and laughing, after I tell him how I came to own the thing in the 1st place. By the way... he still uses it... and No... he wasn't the one to lose it in the 1st place. Haven't seen the guy who lost it either.

For all you blokees and blokettes in utes etc, just make sure that when you tie old Bluey up to the ute when travelling, that the chain does not let the dog move more than the inside of the tray.

Sad but true, whilst delivering in Newcastle, I notice a dog being dragged by its chain on the roadway, tears were flowing as I tried chasing a ute with a 19 tonne tautliner, blowing my air-horns, flashing my lights, all 12 of them, pointing to the ute,damn it was hard going, even went through 2 red-lights, but eventually I just couldn't keep up and I just looked at the 200 mtr blood-stain on a straight stretch, christ, I hope the dog was dead by then.

Otherwise there's this clown up at the Cape:

This person was driving up at the Cape (earlier this year I think) and this other guy roars up behind him and seems very impatient to overtake. The first car obliges, moves over and lets the second vehicle pass - no thanks or anything: just a shower of gravel and dust. Anyway, not wanting that to ruin the trip, they continue on their merry way but soon after, they come around a corner only to be delayed by this:
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Of course, he couldn't help but think that perhaps the speed these people were travelling at may have been a contributing factor and he offers this suggestion only to be abruptly told off "Of course not, that has nothing to do with it!" Anyway, after waiting having to wait for them to clear an area wide enough for him to drive through, he is able to continue on his trip...

Another one that I witnessed first hand was a ladder falling off the roofracks of a tradesman's van - I was directly behind this van as he merged into the traffic of a major arterial road and I watched the ladder start sliding across the roofbars. Thankfully it fell off to the left and there was a gap in the traffic to the right so I just went around him - perhaps I should have stopped and watched him tie it back on "just to make sure you tie it on properly this time".

Or one that my friends told me about when they were cruising down a multi-lane freeway: up ahead, suddenly everyone seemed to be hastily getting out of the middle lane. They figured there was probably some logical reason so they moved to another lane as well, only to cruise on past a fridge, standing upright in the centre lane! On the shoulder was a couple of people who looked quite perplexed as to how they might interrupt the busy freeway traffic for long enough to get their fridge back (or if it would survive long enough for them to bother!).

I think many people think things don't have to be secured in the back of a ute - how many times do we see paint splotches on the road from buckets of paint that fall out of utes - how pleased would you be if that landed on the road right in front of your rig? I've also seen a ute with a wheelbarrow tied on sideways and the handles sticking full-length out the LHS, ready to end the life of some poor pedestrian(s). Unfortunately, speed cameras don't tend to pick up dangerous practices such as these.