How much LUCK have you had?

[wardy1]

OK, so I don't want all those "Holier than thou" types here.
The other night I was driving along and really not concentrating that hard. Went down a steep hill and up again and BANG!...Blue and Red in the RV mirror.
Very pleasant fella in blue took my license, asked me to to do the breatho thing and all was good. Then he showed me the reading on the radar gun..... 92 in a 60 zone!...... ****!
Off he went to do his rego/licence check and then he came back. "Do you realise that this is a 30 day automatic license suspension + a substantial fine?"
Oh....**** says me.
Then he said he'd looked at my driving record and that he'd decided to give me a WARNING!
I could have kissed him but really...that would have got me a ticket and jail time :p.
How lucky have YOU been lately?

[midal]

Bless you my son:angel:.....has it taught you anything?:whistling:

Cheers
Mick

[banjo]

None i own a series3 landy.& i have enuff trouble making 60 in a 60 zone....:eek:
Very lucky wardy very lucky indeed..

[V8Ian]

Bless you my son:angel:.....has it taught you anything?:whistling:

Cheers
Mick
Yep, look in the mirror more often. ;)

[midal]

Yep, look in the mirror more often. ;)

I was actually being facetious in reference to the "holier than thou" statement.....I'm sure we have all done the same thing to some degree;)

Cheers
Mick

[rovercare]

Must admit, I did the other day, pulled up at half 10 at night in the 120" realised the taillights weren;t working, but to late to repair and wasn;t far to head, so jumped out the car, spose your pulling me up for no tailights'the reply was, oh, you already know:D, they were nice enough to tail me to where I was headed and not put the car of the road, was quite pleasing actually:)

[Cousinlarry]

Not long ago my waterpump siezed on a drive home from the Gold Coast - not that lucky you may say but, heres the good part. I smelt burning rubber and immediately pulled over and discovered a broken fan belt, phoned a mate who bought me a new one, fitted that but, couldn't turn her over. Just then I spotted a 4x4 World guy in a nearby shop, he knew a local tow man and a local land rover specialist. Turns out the land rover mechanic was only 4 k's away and had the water pump replaced 2 hours later. So if the fan belt hadn't been caught up against a pully and not just fallen out the engine bay it I would never have smelt the burning and probably driven on causing overheating and engine damage, just then a 4x4 specialist pulled up and arranged a tow, land rover specialist was just round the corner now that was a lucky place to break down!
By the way the mechanic said in 36 years of working on landies he's never seen a siezed water pump.

[JamesH]

We were out the back of Mt Augustus heading the back road to Paraburdoo when my mates clutch fork gave way. Bad luck. It gave way just as we were about to go through a range of hills and windy track. More bad luck. He managed to drive her clutchless 240km through the hills and limp into Para.

He called his landie mechanic and described the symptoms and clutck fork it was. It so happened his daughter was flying up to join us for a week of the trip. it so happened a clutch kit was there to be picked up by said daughter. It also so happened the Para mechanic who has been booked out four weeks ahead for the last four years had the mining company call him and tell them the mining company Coaster he was booked to work on just had a prang or something.

We were on the track about 24 hours later than we would been anyway.

We say we were lucky. Could so easily have been a remote pick up by a flatbed and good bye holiday.

[**Discovery300Tdi**]

NONE :(:(:(:(:(

AND STILL GOING WITH NO LUCK!!!

[robzilla]

Was pulled over once in the Dandenong's on the way home from a car cruise with some others from the Nissan Silvia crowd.
Mentally prepared myself for a full bonnet-up defect session. figured the burbly exhaust and custom gauge cluster would be dead giveaways :(
Cop asked me what i was doing here at 2am (he had my license, so knew i was from the suburbs), told him i'd been studying for exams so just out for a drive to relax and get some air.
It worked :D didn't even get breatho'd.
Thanked my stars i was in a "sleeper" Bluebird and not a Jap import, drove home as sedately as possible :p

[agrojnr]

Have been pulled over twice and blown 0.09 and been let off:eek:

Adam

[Rayngie]

i'm sorry, but you were doing 92 in a 60 zone and got let off???, and are proud of it?

Well, i got my good car smacked into yesterday by someone going too fast in a school zone....that's one idiot who will lose his license....he was in a RR sport too...hardly a mark on it, i'll be getting a new rear bumper for his troubles.

The fact that you hav'nt lost your license is our bad luck, not your good luck....

Ray.

[Redback]

NONE :(:(:(:(:(

AND STILL GOING WITH NO LUCK!!!

It will change this weekend for the better mate, remember that Monty Python song, always look on the bright side of life:whistling::whistling: ...:whistling::whistling::whistling::whistling:..: whistling::whistling::spudnikparty:

Baz.

[strangy]

I was heading out with a new Pilot who was taking a fair time longer to get his checks done. As we were about to enter the runway the fuel control unit went legs up and the engine spooled down to a stop. If we were ready in our normal time frame, there would have been an unhappy ending off the runway.
Just a few weeks later in the dark wee hours of the morning, after picking my way through/ around thunderstorms and all the associated lightning and ice, we made it home and parked the aircraft. It was due for routine maintenance that day. When I showed up for work later, our engineers happily poured a shiney gritty mass into a bowl before me. It was the result of a gear driven fuel pump failing and all the metal had blocked the filter and was on its way to the fuel nozzles! They reckon we had about another 15 minutes before a complete shutdown.

So, Lucky... you bet. I consider it Blessed also;)

cheers

[Tombie]

i'm sorry, but you were doing 92 in a 60 zone and got let off???, and are proud of it?

Well, i got my good car smacked into yesterday by someone going too fast in a school zone....that's one idiot who will lose his license....he was in a RR sport too...hardly a mark on it, i'll be getting a new rear bumper for his troubles.

The fact that you hav'nt lost your license is our bad luck, not your good luck....

Ray.

2 of the biggest con-jobs on Australian motorists..

1) Cars over 100,000km are OLD and worth a lot less..

2) Speeding is a mortal sin ;)

Speed is ALWAYS a factor in ANY collision... Stationary objects dont collide!

Speed zones are generic and often NOT appropriate for the area.
They often pander to peak times etc...

In the US for example some states have different speeds (well signed) for different weather conditions, times, vehicles....

Depending on the time, 90km/h may well have been safe.

I'll bet your Rangie driver wasnt going over the speed limit when they hit you, more likely just inattentive.

[solmanic]

Some years ago I was heading home very late at night after a long day at work. I was in the Alfa, not another car anywhere to be seen and in a foul mood. Consequently I was doing warp 9 when suddenly the universe exploded with light as I got flashed by a speed camera. It was about 1am on a Wednesday night/Thursday morning so I don't know who they were expecting to catch.

Ten years later and I still haven't received anything in the mail :cool:.



...And for those who think I'm proud of this - no. I'm just very relieved as I am NOT a habitual speedster.

[Redback]

Coming home from a weekend in the Watagans, on the F3 towing the camper, pouring with rain when at the Orimbah entry, a drunk coming home from the dogs tried to take us out while he was merging onto the freeway, first attempt missed as hecrossed in front of us, he hit the guard rail, on the way back he missed again and while this was happening on my right was a fella in a ute taking avaisive action from him as well, he was sideways facing me, while his trailer carrying a jetski was facing in the forward direction, I got away from him only to find our drunk again, missed him again, he T- boned the guy in the ute beside me, bounced off him and tagged my mates camper behind me.

We came off with nothing, my mates camper was totaled and the young bloke in his 3 week old ute was totaled as well, after the accident a bloke came up to me (he saw the whole thing) and shook my hand saying that was the best driving he had ever seen, I said, mate that was all luck.

Luck was on my side that night:D

Baz.

[dolphinberserk]

I'm new, but before even introducing myself..

In 1994 I was working as a paid leader for a certain conservation volunteer group we might call 'AT__' in the the NT. I was new to the Territory and to Darwin. A Friday night in the 38deg 'build time' time (November), after doing weed removal all week, I was informed that my weekend would involve taking the troop carrier and 1) picking up a trailer from a group we might call Gr___ing Australia 2) going straight to the airport and picking five European volunteers, loading the roof and trailer and 3) driving to Alice Springs (sleeping 'anywhere you like' NT style) to arrive by Sunday night in order to start revegetation work in the scrub around Alice from 6am Monday morning. 80km short of Three Ways and at 130km/h a tyre burst on the fully laden trailer, which required some effort to bring to a halt without a spill. Lucky. The bitumen would have been well over 60 degrees and as the tread came most of the way off, we can assume the trailer had been fitted with retreads - illegal in the NT for this heat/retreads reason - and I remember being rather sh_t off about this. Then I found the spare was from a different hub....
In retrospect I should have checked the rego on the trailer and dumped the thing at a servo. I didn't so read on
Friday a week later, I had again 36 hours to get the rig to the other side of the Territory (volunteers left in Alice for a break). Four hours out of Alice at 140km/h, with thankfully no other vehicle around, I saw something flicker in the rear view and instantly recognised the steel tailgate flying perhaps 30m behind the troopy and about five metres in the air, gracefully spinning and arcing to land a hundred or more metres back with an audible smack and slide onto the Stuart Hwy. Uturn to find the thing. The pins for the gate had sheared off - I found rust holes on welds surrounding them. Carefully placed the battered tailgate under a seat in the rear of the troopy with some very mixed feelings. Lucky indeed. Had there been a car behind me or a vehicle on the approaching side with a slight easterly blowing, this story could have ended very very .. very badly. A tailgate plowing through a 1992 Toyota Camry would have had obvious results and I was a link in the chain of causation, still relieved no one was there to be killed, but a very uncomfortable feeling.
9 hours later I'm on the side of the furnace like Stuart Hwy near Katherine replacing a rear troopy tyre that blew at 130km/h, the tread again halfway off. By this time I felt lucky but vexed to say the least.
Some hours later I'm heading into Palmerstone, eye's bloodshot, quite awake, but not enough to catch the speed limit change in time. Drop down to limit and a half minute later a patrol car's lights were in my rear view. Slowly wound her down and pulled over, hand over the licence. Cop says "Where's the rego sticker on your trailer?"
"Um, on the tailgate."
"So, where's the tailgate?"
I showed him.
"Well let's see, 110 in an 80 zone, retreads all round, defect vehicle, defect trailer with no rego.., expired in June.. So, what do you want me to do?"
I didn't know what to say, but after scrunching his face a lot and taking some notes on the organisations involved the cop told me to "pull my head in" and let me go on my way on the condition I give my bosses what for. I was very lucky but recalling that tailgate spinning still gives me chills.