How much LUCK have you had?

**agrojnr** · 17th February 2010, 10:12 PM

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

Adam

Rayngie · 18th February 2010, 08:19 AM

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** · 18th February 2010, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by **Joker**

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

...

..

Baz.

**strangy** · 18th February 2010, 09:28 AM

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 · 18th February 2010, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 18th February 2010, 10:01 AM

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

.

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

**Redback** · 18th February 2010, 11:31 AM

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

Baz.

**dolphinberserk** · 20th February 2010, 02:57 PM

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.

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