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Willy Nilly said:
Shakermaker said:
Willy Nilly said:
I'm thinking about starting Small Hatchback Response. I have unfettered access to a small, Japanese hatchback and would willingly sleep with one eye on the phone, quite possible gripping my pillow tight, in case anyone needed rushing to the shops or their nan picking up from the doctors.
My gran would struggle to get into a standard hatchback now, too low down.Would need a mini MPV type thing so she doesn't do her hips in!
When we had some serious Christmas flooding a couple of years ago, my wife's train back from london couldn't get to Horsham so I 'braved' driving along the well lit roads in the rain, carefully avoiding all the big puddles in my Mondeo of the time.
When i go to three bridges where the train had stopped, I kindly offered three people a lift with me who needed to get to Horsham as well to save waiting for a taxi, took a grandma, mum and child who looked like they needed it and we're glad of the offer
Should I have put some battenburg and lights on the Mondeo to do this?
Was the Mondeo *gulp* white ?
Getragdogleg said:
Willy Nilly said:
Shakermaker said:
Willy Nilly said:
I'm thinking about starting Small Hatchback Response. I have unfettered access to a small, Japanese hatchback and would willingly sleep with one eye on the phone, quite possible gripping my pillow tight, in case anyone needed rushing to the shops or their nan picking up from the doctors.
My gran would struggle to get into a standard hatchback now, too low down.Would need a mini MPV type thing so she doesn't do her hips in!
When we had some serious Christmas flooding a couple of years ago, my wife's train back from london couldn't get to Horsham so I 'braved' driving along the well lit roads in the rain, carefully avoiding all the big puddles in my Mondeo of the time.
When i go to three bridges where the train had stopped, I kindly offered three people a lift with me who needed to get to Horsham as well to save waiting for a taxi, took a grandma, mum and child who looked like they needed it and we're glad of the offer
Should I have put some battenburg and lights on the Mondeo to do this?
Was the Mondeo *gulp* white ?
king civiliansYou need laminated signs on the dash as a bare minimum
Spare tyre said:
Getragdogleg said:
Willy Nilly said:
Shakermaker said:
Willy Nilly said:
I'm thinking about starting Small Hatchback Response. I have unfettered access to a small, Japanese hatchback and would willingly sleep with one eye on the phone, quite possible gripping my pillow tight, in case anyone needed rushing to the shops or their nan picking up from the doctors.
My gran would struggle to get into a standard hatchback now, too low down.Would need a mini MPV type thing so she doesn't do her hips in!
When we had some serious Christmas flooding a couple of years ago, my wife's train back from london couldn't get to Horsham so I 'braved' driving along the well lit roads in the rain, carefully avoiding all the big puddles in my Mondeo of the time.
When i go to three bridges where the train had stopped, I kindly offered three people a lift with me who needed to get to Horsham as well to save waiting for a taxi, took a grandma, mum and child who looked like they needed it and we're glad of the offer
Should I have put some battenburg and lights on the Mondeo to do this?
Was the Mondeo *gulp* white ?
king civiliansYou need laminated signs on the dash as a bare minimum
I am putting your impertinence down to regional variations on kit minimums and will give you benefit of the doubt just this once.
Shakermaker said:
markmullen said:
mph1977 said:
and despite the piss taking the gold-silver- bronze command levels is legit
Shakermaker said:
markmullen said:
mph1977 said:
and despite the piss taking the gold-silver- bronze command levels is legit
And no issue with mountain rescue, lowland rescue, well meaning 4x4 owners who help out on a muddy field, etc... just the walls who add a quasi-police/military command structure and language to something that could be done without all of the faff.
I stepped up this morning to help the community, but I'm not going to make a fuss about it........what happened was I turned up to my builders yard this morning to find a small terrier type dog mooching about, obviously had escaped and was looking a bit put out. Assessing the situation and trying to work out priorities, the first thing I did was to make myself Gold command, with Diamonds, swords and Oak leaves.
The said dog had an address tag which showed it lived at an adjacent road, but how was I to get it there, only possessing a small petrol estate car? Not a lift kit to be seen. I improvised of course! And so with our creeds motto of 'Unum Ocular Super Telefono' ringing in my ears, I inflated my tyres to 300 psi, the extra ground clearance all the better to cope with Sheffield's roads in July.
Next problem, how to let people know how important I am. Had I got a set of custom vinyl graphics saying 'Emergency pet search and rescue team' to hand? Had I bks. So I set to with some magnolia emulsion left over from a job, a 9'' roller and wrote 'Emergency Pet Res' down the side of my car(I ran out of space) with a graphic showing a kitten lying in the road with a steamroller approaching. Then I loaded the animal into the 'Canine containment area' deployed and returned the dog to it's owner, the identity of who can't be revealed, OPSEC and all. But, as I said I don't want make a fuss.
The said dog had an address tag which showed it lived at an adjacent road, but how was I to get it there, only possessing a small petrol estate car? Not a lift kit to be seen. I improvised of course! And so with our creeds motto of 'Unum Ocular Super Telefono' ringing in my ears, I inflated my tyres to 300 psi, the extra ground clearance all the better to cope with Sheffield's roads in July.
Next problem, how to let people know how important I am. Had I got a set of custom vinyl graphics saying 'Emergency pet search and rescue team' to hand? Had I b
ks. So I set to with some magnolia emulsion left over from a job, a 9'' roller and wrote 'Emergency Pet Res' down the side of my car(I ran out of space) with a graphic showing a kitten lying in the road with a steamroller approaching. Then I loaded the animal into the 'Canine containment area' deployed and returned the dog to it's owner, the identity of who can't be revealed, OPSEC and all. But, as I said I don't want make a fuss.Edited by wolfracesonic on Saturday 2nd July 13:20
wolfracesonic said:
I stepped up this morning to help the community, but I'm not going to make a fuss about it........what happened was I turned up to my builders yard this morning to find a small terrier type dog mooching about, obviously had escaped and was looking a bit put out. Assessing the situation and trying to work out priorities, the first thing I did was to make myself Gold command, with Diamonds, swords and Oak leaves.
The said dog had an address tag which showed it lived at an adjacent road, but how was I to get it there, only possessing a small petrol estate car? Not a lift kit to be seen. I improvised of course! And so with our creeds motto of 'Unum Ocular Super Telefono' I inflated my tyres to 300 psi, the extra ground clearance all the better to cope with Sheffield's roads in July.
Next problem, how to let people know how important I am. Had I got a set of custom vinyl graphics saying 'Emergency pet search and rescue team' to hand? Had I bks. So I set to with some magnolia emulsion left over from a job, a 9'' roller and wrote 'Emergency Pet Res' down the side of my car(I ran out of space) with a graphic showing a kitten lying in the road with a steamroller approaching. Then I loaded the animal into the 'Canine containment area' deployed and returned the dog to it's owner, the identity of who can't be revealed, OPSEC and all. But, as I said I don't want make a fuss.
My hero The said dog had an address tag which showed it lived at an adjacent road, but how was I to get it there, only possessing a small petrol estate car? Not a lift kit to be seen. I improvised of course! And so with our creeds motto of 'Unum Ocular Super Telefono' I inflated my tyres to 300 psi, the extra ground clearance all the better to cope with Sheffield's roads in July.
Next problem, how to let people know how important I am. Had I got a set of custom vinyl graphics saying 'Emergency pet search and rescue team' to hand? Had I b
ks. So I set to with some magnolia emulsion left over from a job, a 9'' roller and wrote 'Emergency Pet Res' down the side of my car(I ran out of space) with a graphic showing a kitten lying in the road with a steamroller approaching. Then I loaded the animal into the 'Canine containment area' deployed and returned the dog to it's owner, the identity of who can't be revealed, OPSEC and all. But, as I said I don't want make a fuss.
Getragdogleg said:
Willy Nilly said:
Shakermaker said:
Willy Nilly said:
I'm thinking about starting Small Hatchback Response. I have unfettered access to a small, Japanese hatchback and would willingly sleep with one eye on the phone, quite possible gripping my pillow tight, in case anyone needed rushing to the shops or their nan picking up from the doctors.
My gran would struggle to get into a standard hatchback now, too low down.Would need a mini MPV type thing so she doesn't do her hips in!
When we had some serious Christmas flooding a couple of years ago, my wife's train back from london couldn't get to Horsham so I 'braved' driving along the well lit roads in the rain, carefully avoiding all the big puddles in my Mondeo of the time.
When i go to three bridges where the train had stopped, I kindly offered three people a lift with me who needed to get to Horsham as well to save waiting for a taxi, took a grandma, mum and child who looked like they needed it and we're glad of the offer
Should I have put some battenburg and lights on the Mondeo to do this?
Was the Mondeo *gulp* white ?
king civiliansYou need laminated signs on the dash as a bare minimum
Spare tyre said:
Getragdogleg said:
Willy Nilly said:
Shakermaker said:
Willy Nilly said:
I'm thinking about starting Small Hatchback Response. I have unfettered access to a small, Japanese hatchback and would willingly sleep with one eye on the phone, quite possible gripping my pillow tight, in case anyone needed rushing to the shops or their nan picking up from the doctors.
My gran would struggle to get into a standard hatchback now, too low down.Would need a mini MPV type thing so she doesn't do her hips in!
When we had some serious Christmas flooding a couple of years ago, my wife's train back from london couldn't get to Horsham so I 'braved' driving along the well lit roads in the rain, carefully avoiding all the big puddles in my Mondeo of the time.
When i go to three bridges where the train had stopped, I kindly offered three people a lift with me who needed to get to Horsham as well to save waiting for a taxi, took a grandma, mum and child who looked like they needed it and we're glad of the offer
Should I have put some battenburg and lights on the Mondeo to do this?
Was the Mondeo *gulp* white ?
king civiliansYou need laminated signs on the dash as a bare minimum
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Vaud said:
Shakermaker said:
markmullen said:
mph1977 said:
and despite the piss taking the gold-silver- bronze command levels is legit
And no issue with mountain rescue, lowland rescue, well meaning 4x4 owners who help out on a muddy field, etc... just the walls who add a quasi-police/military command structure and language to something that could be done without all of the faff.
again it's a situation where people seem to think they know it all , but unless you are involved in such things you'll not be aware of the underpinning processes etc ...
mph1977 said:
hate to break it to you - it's the default setting for events and 'rankless' organisations ... and may be used in ranked organisations where the management of that event/ deployment is not necessarily the highest rank present ...
again it's a situation where people seem to think they know it all , but unless you are involved in such things you'll not be aware of the underpinning processes etc ...
I'm delighted to have it broken to me. I don't claim to "know it all"... I just express forum based hyperbole at the Walts, not the professionals.again it's a situation where people seem to think they know it all , but unless you are involved in such things you'll not be aware of the underpinning processes etc ...
Vaud said:
mph1977 said:
hate to break it to you - it's the default setting for events and 'rankless' organisations ... and may be used in ranked organisations where the management of that event/ deployment is not necessarily the highest rank present ...
again it's a situation where people seem to think they know it all , but unless you are involved in such things you'll not be aware of the underpinning processes etc ...
I'm delighted to have it broken to me. I don't claim to "know it all"... I just express forum based hyperbole at the Walts, not the professionals.again it's a situation where people seem to think they know it all , but unless you are involved in such things you'll not be aware of the underpinning processes etc ...
mph1977 said:
unfortunately rather too many people think they do know better than the 'professionals' especially if they are volunteers or the organisation is a Charity
Oh in that we agree. I admire volunteering - there is a lot in the UK but could be more - just think it is a bit OTT at times and take themselves a bit too seriously - when they could achieve the same outcome with less BS. 
Vaud said:
mph1977 said:
unfortunately rather too many people think they do know better than the 'professionals' especially if they are volunteers or the organisation is a Charity
Oh in that we agree. I admire volunteering - there is a lot in the UK but could be more - just think it is a bit OTT at times and take themselves a bit too seriously - when they could achieve the same outcome with less BS. 
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