What a day, what a ****ing day.

Set off from Dundee at 9:30am after an early site meeting. The snow started
around 9am & it was ****ing epic. A9 closed, M74 closed, just about all
****ing roads closed.

I set off accross country on horrible ungritted ice & snow in me trusty
Passatt. Took hours to even get near Lockerbie after the big pile up i
avoided. Pulled out of the services getting up to speed & BANG something hit
the car & the windscreen was utterly wrecked.

I pulled over right quick & a bobby pulled in.

A wheel handle off a lorry trailer had hit the front of the car gouging the
roof too. I was covered in ****ing shards of glass, as is the inside of the
car. The inner plastic bit of the screen was holed, but pretty much held
out. If the thing hadnt hit the roof too, the bobby reckoned it could have
come right through. Right in front of me face

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Nige,

Land Rover 90
Yamaha R1
Range Rover Vogue

On Feb 24, 7:10*pm, "Nige" <de...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> What a day, what a ****ing day.
>
> Set off from Dundee at 9:30am after an early site meeting. The snow started
> around 9am & it was ****ing epic. A9 closed, M74 closed, just about all
> ****ing roads closed.
>
> I set off accross country on horrible ungritted ice & snow in me trusty
> Passatt. Took hours to even get near Lockerbie after the big pile up i
> avoided. Pulled out of the services getting up to speed & BANG something hit
> the car & the windscreen was utterly wrecked.
>
> I pulled over right quick & a bobby pulled in.
>
> A wheel handle off a lorry trailer had hit the front of the car gouging the
> roof too. I was covered in ****ing shards of glass, as is the inside of the
> car. The inner plastic bit of the screen was holed, but pretty much held
> out. If the thing hadnt hit the roof too, the bobby reckoned it could have
> come right through. Right in front of me face

I'm amazed Sir Tony was granted a HGV licence. ;-)

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JackH

Nige wrote:

> What a day, what a ****ing day.
>
> Set off from Dundee at 9:30am after an early site meeting. The snow
> started around 9am & it was ****ing epic. A9 closed, M74 closed, just
> about all ****ing roads closed.
>
> I set off accross country on horrible ungritted ice & snow in me
> trusty Passatt. Took hours to even get near Lockerbie after the big
> pile up i avoided. Pulled out of the services getting up to speed &
> BANG something hit the car & the windscreen was utterly wrecked.
>
> I pulled over right quick & a bobby pulled in.
>
> A wheel handle off a lorry trailer had hit the front of the car
> gouging the roof too. I was covered in ****ing shards of glass, as is
> the inside of the car. The inner plastic bit of the screen was holed,
> but pretty much held out. If the thing hadnt hit the roof too, the
> bobby reckoned it could have come right through. Right in front of me
> face

Lucky escape

--
Buzby
"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot"

Paul Corfield wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:10:49 -0000, "Nige" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>> What a day, what a ****ing day.
>>
>> Set off from Dundee at 9:30am after an early site meeting. The snow
>> started around 9am & it was ****ing epic. A9 closed, M74 closed,
>> just about all ****ing roads closed.
>>
>> I set off accross country on horrible ungritted ice & snow in me
>> trusty Passatt. Took hours to even get near Lockerbie after the big
>> pile up i avoided. Pulled out of the services getting up to speed &
>> BANG something hit the car & the windscreen was utterly wrecked.
>>
>> I pulled over right quick & a bobby pulled in.
>>
>> A wheel handle off a lorry trailer had hit the front of the car
>> gouging the roof too. I was covered in ****ing shards of glass, as
>> is the inside of the car. The inner plastic bit of the screen was
>> holed, but pretty much held out. If the thing hadnt hit the roof
>> too, the bobby reckoned it could have come right through. Right in
>> front of me face
>
> And I went to all that effort with that wheel handle and it bloody
> failed.
>
> Curses - back to the drawing board.

He was warned about going to Dundee. Ever.

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Hog

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:10:49 -0000, "Nige" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>What a day, what a ****ing day.
>
snip>

Did you tell the plod wanker to **** off with his high viz jacket or
did you roll over and pretend we don't live in a police state?

Nige <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> If the thing hadnt hit the roof too, the bobby reckoned it could have
> come right through. Right in front of me face

Any change would have been an improvement ;-)

Glad you're unharmed.


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Andy Bonwick wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:10:49 -0000, "Nige" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>> What a day, what a ****ing day.
>>
> snip>
>
> Did you tell the plod wanker to **** off with his high viz jacket or
> did you roll over and pretend we don't live in a police state?

He was OK, he didn't mace me or give me a section 59, it's a start to new
police beginnings He saw it happen, buggery**** it was bloody close.

On a bike, not a price in hell, i didn't even see it.

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Nige,

Land Rover 90
Yamaha R1
Range Rover Vogue

The Older Gentleman wrote:
> Nige <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> If the thing hadnt hit the roof too, the bobby reckoned it could have
>> come right through. Right in front of me face
>
> Any change would have been an improvement ;-)
>
> Glad you're unharmed.

Well, there's a slight enlargement in the ringpiece & a very odd smell. I
wondered what the smell was, thinking i might really have shat me pants, but
that plastic stinks when it stretches, the stuff in the screen.....

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Nige,

Land Rover 90
Yamaha R1
Range Rover Vogue

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:10:49 -0000, "Nige" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>What a day, what a ****ing day.
>
>Set off from Dundee at 9:30am after an early site meeting. The snow started
>around 9am & it was ****ing epic. A9 closed, M74 closed, just about all
>****ing roads closed.
>
>I set off accross country on horrible ungritted ice & snow in me trusty
>Passatt. Took hours to even get near Lockerbie after the big pile up i
>avoided. Pulled out of the services getting up to speed & BANG something hit
>the car & the windscreen was utterly wrecked.
>
>I pulled over right quick & a bobby pulled in.
>
>A wheel handle off a lorry trailer had hit the front of the car gouging the
>roof too. I was covered in ****ing shards of glass, as is the inside of the
>car. The inner plastic bit of the screen was holed, but pretty much held
>out. If the thing hadnt hit the roof too, the bobby reckoned it could have
>come right through. Right in front of me face

Lucky escape mate.
On the bright side, if it had come through, not much chance of
damage...
--

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as
members. Groucho Marx

Scraggy wrote:

> Lucky escape mate.
> On the bright side, if it had come through, not much chance of
> damage...

Dunno, it *was* raining


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Nige,

Land Rover 90
Yamaha R1
Range Rover Vogue