David Blunkett - how did we fail to celebrate this?
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...David's alive....Maybe next time...
http://www.thestar.co.uk/bizarre/Cow-crushes-David...
local rag said:
SHEFFIELD MP David Blunkett has told how he cheated death when a one ton cow fell on top of him and broke his rib.
The Brightside MP was walking near his home at Beeley, Chatsworth, with his son Andrew and guide dog Sadie on Saturday - his 62nd birthday - when the bizarre incident happened.
The former Home Secretary, who believes it was a "miracle" he was not killed, was rushed to see specialist doctors by his fiancée Margaret Williams, a GP.
He says he was told he was lucky he had not suffered a punctured lung.
Mr Blunkett said they had come across a group of cows when one of them "let out a roar" on spotting eight-year-old Sadie.
Mr Blunkett said: "I let go of Sadie and she shot off. But the next thing I knew, I'd stumbled to the ground and the animal fell over too. She hit my side and broke my rib.
"Had her full weight of around a ton hit me, I'd have been a goner."
But although Mr Blunkett says he has suffered "a lot of painful bruising", he pledged he would still be in London at work this week.
He added: "I know the public are furious with politicians but I didn't realise the anger has spread to Britain's cow population too.
"A few more inches and Labour would have been facing another unwelcome by-election.
"There is a serious message from this, beware of cattle, especially when walking a dog and calves are about.
Let's look at that again...The Brightside MP was walking near his home at Beeley, Chatsworth, with his son Andrew and guide dog Sadie on Saturday - his 62nd birthday - when the bizarre incident happened.
The former Home Secretary, who believes it was a "miracle" he was not killed, was rushed to see specialist doctors by his fiancée Margaret Williams, a GP.
He says he was told he was lucky he had not suffered a punctured lung.
Mr Blunkett said they had come across a group of cows when one of them "let out a roar" on spotting eight-year-old Sadie.
Mr Blunkett said: "I let go of Sadie and she shot off. But the next thing I knew, I'd stumbled to the ground and the animal fell over too. She hit my side and broke my rib.
"Had her full weight of around a ton hit me, I'd have been a goner."
But although Mr Blunkett says he has suffered "a lot of painful bruising", he pledged he would still be in London at work this week.
He added: "I know the public are furious with politicians but I didn't realise the anger has spread to Britain's cow population too.
"A few more inches and Labour would have been facing another unwelcome by-election.
"There is a serious message from this, beware of cattle, especially when walking a dog and calves are about.
Mr Blunkett said they had come across a group of cows when one of them "let out a roar" ......Mr Blunkett said: "I let go of Sadie and she shot off....
Hmmmm.....
We did celebrate this, back in June when it happened.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
FourWheelDrift said:
We did celebrate this, back in June when it happened.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
You've just restotrd my faith in PH...http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
But not the search facility...
I make no apology, 'tis worth any number of airings..
Did i post in that thread..? I get confused, you know...
FourWheelDrift said:
mybrainhurts said:
But not the search facility...
That's how I found it, words used - cows and blunkett - news forum. One thread found, that one.Then fail to spot the second page...
I am humbled, dismayed and offer myself for five minutes with Max Moseley....
I think it wise to put aside our general distaste for the man and look at the situation. He is blind and it must have been bloody awful to hear the noise of cows stampeding and knowing that your only source of sight, the dog, has seen what was heading your way and legged it. I do genuinely feel sorry for him and what must have been a terrifying moment in his life.
However, what other articles reveal is that his son was with him. A son who is old enough and sufficiently educated to know that you don’t walk your blind father over a field of cattle with a dog and that ultimately you take the smack from the cow.
I’m sure that Blunket will recover from the experience of being stampeded but probably not from the experience of learning at the same moment that your son is a useless turd.
However, what other articles reveal is that his son was with him. A son who is old enough and sufficiently educated to know that you don’t walk your blind father over a field of cattle with a dog and that ultimately you take the smack from the cow.
I’m sure that Blunket will recover from the experience of being stampeded but probably not from the experience of learning at the same moment that your son is a useless turd.
10 Pence Short said:
I don't agree with the man's political beliefs one iota, but he's quite a humorous guy and I certainly wouldn't wish him any harm.
Clearly, sir, you do not live in the city he drove into the ground, nor are you still paying for his excesses through your council tax....
Horse_Apple said:
However, what other articles reveal is that his son was with him. A son who is old enough and sufficiently educated to know that you don’t walk your blind father over a field of cattle with a dog and that ultimately you take the smack from the cow.
I’m sure that Blunket will recover from the experience of being stampeded but probably not from the experience of learning at the same moment that your son is a useless turd.
Don't be too hard on the lad, I paid him good money to do that...I’m sure that Blunket will recover from the experience of being stampeded but probably not from the experience of learning at the same moment that your son is a useless turd.
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