Slippery as hell

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Doggy Styles replied

7 January 2009, 17:04
Originally posted by d000hg View Post

I thought the story was going to be that you ran him over because it was so slippery.

And with 360 bhp he would have done a fine job of it too.
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d000hg replied

7 January 2009, 16:58
I thought the story was going to be that you ran him over because it was so slippery.
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Doggy Styles replied

7 January 2009, 16:19
Aha, now I understand. You were going in the opposite direction to the ambulance. That's why the old bugger ... yes, alles ist clar.
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darmstadt replied

7 January 2009, 16:15
Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post

I can't picture the relative positions of the vehicles here. Why did you have to drive alongside the ambulance?

Its a rather narrow road with cars parked down one side and the bloke was lying a couple of feet from the curb. I had pulled up behind him (one of the onlookers asked if I had run him over) and the ambulance approached from the other side so I had to pull right over to the snow and ice against the curb. With rear wheel drive and 360bhp, it ain't much fun when the road slippery as hell and you only have a couple of inches either side of you. I was basically on the right side of this monument:

http://flickr.com/photos/froutes/2732938766

facing this church:

http://www.amplus-media.de/gab/?id=3
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Peoplesoft bloke replied

7 January 2009, 15:58
Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

did you get his wallet

I didn't know darmstadt was an agent.
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EternalOptimist replied

7 January 2009, 15:48
did you get his wallet
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Cyberman replied

7 January 2009, 15:37
Well done Darmstadt !!
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voodooflux replied

7 January 2009, 15:14
Originally posted by darmstadt View Post

All in all a good deed done today, particularly by my son.

Good on ya
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Doggy Styles replied

7 January 2009, 14:53
Originally posted by darmstadt View Post

What got me was I had to then drive off alongside the ambulance which I had to do very slow due to the ice yet there was some old bugger behind the ambulance gesticulating at me to move my arse. I pulled up alongside him and told him to **** off with German hand signals (probably get reported for that!)

I can't picture the relative positions of the vehicles here. Why did you have to drive alongside the ambulance?
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darmstadt started a topic Slippery as hell

7 January 2009, 14:20
Slippery as hell

Just took my son in to town to buy a computer game and some USB cables for me. Leaving the car park we drove round the corner and there was a body lying in the road. Some poor old chap on his way home from shopping had come a cropper on the ice road and banged his head quite badly with a large pool of blood under him. As I got out of the car I could see how he slipped, I could hardly stand up!

I gave my son the phone to call for an ambulance but he had a slight problem as its a touchscreen and he couldn't find the keyboard. By the time that was sorted we had a few people round and I grabbed a blanket to fold and put under his head. The ambulance arrived about 5 minutes later and got him into the back.

What got me was I had to then drive off alongside the ambulance which I had to do very slow due to the ice yet there was some old bugger behind the ambulance gesticulating at me to move my arse. I pulled up alongside him and told him to **** off with German hand signals (probably get reported for that!)

All in all a good deed done today, particularly by my son.
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