so how many of you would have done the same??
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so on my way home tonight, it's raining a bit and I see a car sat half off a roundabout with it's hazards on and a lost looking chap on his phone.
Initially I thought, lets get this guy pulled to a safer place (towrope in the boot) so stopped and walked back to offer him a tow....
his front tyre has ripped his arch liner out and the car is clearly going no-where with the tread wrapped round the suspension, so I offered to sort it for him (rather than him wait an hour for the AA to come)
moved the car to a fend off position just behind him for safety (rather have a truck hit my car and be deflected than be squashed under his while changing the tyre.
pulled his tyre off and fitted his spare, all in less than 5 mins.
Yes I'm blowing my own trumpet but I bet 99% of you would have driven past thinking "what a knob stopping there"!
Initially I thought, lets get this guy pulled to a safer place (towrope in the boot) so stopped and walked back to offer him a tow....
his front tyre has ripped his arch liner out and the car is clearly going no-where with the tread wrapped round the suspension, so I offered to sort it for him (rather than him wait an hour for the AA to come)
moved the car to a fend off position just behind him for safety (rather have a truck hit my car and be deflected than be squashed under his while changing the tyre.
pulled his tyre off and fitted his spare, all in less than 5 mins.
Yes I'm blowing my own trumpet but I bet 99% of you would have driven past thinking "what a knob stopping there"!
MJK 24 said:
I've helped people numerous times but I wont do it if either myself or my vehicle would be in danger.
Hard to see without a photo but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have stopped on a roundabout especially if it was busy and dark/wet. For me, it's just not worth it.
The thought process was pretty much, this guy with fading light just off the exit for an hour Vs 5 minutes of my car with every light on, just off the roundabout giving approaching vehicles warning of a hazard as they approach the Roundabout, rather than half way round!Hard to see without a photo but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have stopped on a roundabout especially if it was busy and dark/wet. For me, it's just not worth it.
As for the car, its a piece of metal and if someone hits an S60 with rear fogs and hazards on under a streetlight, They will be at fault!
Also saved the AA a call out, meaning they can go and help someone else in need!
Have often stopped to help, often it's females who can't or don't know how to change a spare wheel.
BUT had a stupid bint scream at me once when I stopped. It was a filthy night, with a howling wind, mid December, blowing snow on the A703 between Penicuik and Peebles, she was stopped with emergency flashers on top of the moor by Leadburn at 12pm. I passed the car and stopped in front so they could see me and offered to help (had 4x4 and a rope on board). She ranted and screamed and told me to "go away".... obviously pretty scared, but with my wife and daughter there couldn't have been any danger.... Ungrateful to say the least. I don't expect laurel wreaths or anything, but a polite thanks is in order.... I hope she froze her proverbials off.....
BUT had a stupid bint scream at me once when I stopped. It was a filthy night, with a howling wind, mid December, blowing snow on the A703 between Penicuik and Peebles, she was stopped with emergency flashers on top of the moor by Leadburn at 12pm. I passed the car and stopped in front so they could see me and offered to help (had 4x4 and a rope on board). She ranted and screamed and told me to "go away".... obviously pretty scared, but with my wife and daughter there couldn't have been any danger.... Ungrateful to say the least. I don't expect laurel wreaths or anything, but a polite thanks is in order.... I hope she froze her proverbials off.....
I stopped to help a middle-aged woman in a Fiesta last christmas on my way to a works do in Pyrford. She had just stopped in the road with hazards on, and as it had been snowing and was icy, I thought I'd stop and check she was ok in case she had been there a while and was cold.
I let her sit in my car once I'd parked in a near lay-by and keep warm and went to push her car further down the road to a parking space. I waited until her husband got there to pick her up and the guy insisted I take a fiver for a pint.
It isn't about some kind of reward. Its more hoping that helping others may in turn provide me heplp in the future, should I need it.
I let her sit in my car once I'd parked in a near lay-by and keep warm and went to push her car further down the road to a parking space. I waited until her husband got there to pick her up and the guy insisted I take a fiver for a pint.
It isn't about some kind of reward. Its more hoping that helping others may in turn provide me heplp in the future, should I need it.
LuS1fer said:
Props to you for stopping but here's an idea, all drivers responsible for their own vehicles should be able to change their own wheel or give up driving. Yes, that means you, ladies and you, metrosexuals.
Women are great aint they? Mine bangs on about "its 2011" and woman are equal to men, she never has or never will learn how to even fill her own washer fluid up let alone change a wheel, her reason why? "Its a mans job".She lied to pass her test basically, she had a question about checking the oil on the car and blagged it as her actual response wasn't there E) Phone BF or Daddy to do it.
Back OT: I have driven past many people broken down, basically because A I never have a tow rope, B I am always busy, C I usually have silly cars unable to tow. I did once tow a Transit to safety when driving another with all the gear on me.
If there is a crash and I fear someones hurt, I will always stop, I also always phone the Police If I spot something dangerous on the roads, as I did yesterday when I almost hit a Christmas tree at 70mph in the middle of the M4!! It had fallen off a jeep & trailer which was on the hard shoulder about a mile down the road all of which was made clear to the Police.
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