Silverstone - Faith in human nature restored
Silverstone - Faith in human nature restored
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XJSsometimeSoon

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378 posts

188 months

Friday 6th July 2012
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We arrived at Silverstone yesterday, got parked up, lugged all of our camping gear to our pitch. Put the tent up and sunk our first beer. Then like a brick in the face that oh st momenet, we could find the envelope with our tickets.... we ripped our tent apart but they were nowhere to be found.
we asked a marshal at the entrance and some fantastic person had found them and hanaded them in. If you are this person or know of them a huge thank you. You have enabled us to have a great time so far and restored my dwindling faith in humanity. There are a couple of drinks owed to you.
Right back to the mud infested tented.....

61GT

637 posts

209 months

Friday 6th July 2012
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Great post - not there in person but really great to hear you got things sorted

zac510

5,546 posts

235 months

Saturday 7th July 2012
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beer Have a great day and a beer for those kind people smile

TheHeretic

73,668 posts

284 months

Saturday 7th July 2012
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See... Don't believe all you hear about society going to the dogs! Good people abound, it just doesn't make good news.

ewolg

1,731 posts

308 months

Saturday 7th July 2012
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What a great tale and hopefully the kind person who found them will be feeling pretty good too. Hope you both win the lotto!!!

Potatoes

3,606 posts

199 months

Saturday 7th July 2012
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Great story.

Go humanity!!


Mostro

729 posts

236 months

Saturday 7th July 2012
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Tsssh. Faith in the whole of humanity restored just because someone did the normal thing and handed them to a marshall?

Pleased for you of course, but the mere fact 'normal' behaviour is now surprising does not reassure me at all!

TheHeretic

73,668 posts

284 months

Saturday 7th July 2012
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I don't see it like that at all. The majority of people are 'good' so yes this is normal. However things like this are never talked about, or portrayed in the news. They prefer grim, sad, or infuriating news, as it is better 'entertainment'. So, it is nice to hear, rather than people thinking this is not normal.

d3dna

395 posts

257 months

Saturday 7th July 2012
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Spot on to those who handed the tickets in!

madala

5,063 posts

227 months

Saturday 7th July 2012
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TheHeretic said:
I don't see it like that at all. The majority of people are 'good' so yes this is normal. However things like this are never talked about, or portrayed in the news. They prefer grim, sad, or infuriating news, as it is better 'entertainment'. So, it is nice to hear, rather than people thinking this is not normal.

...wot he said.....

XJSsometimeSoon

Original Poster:

378 posts

188 months

Thursday 12th July 2012
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I like to think I restored the karma balance. I gave a bloke the £10 note he dropped while buying a cuppa on the campsite. With a couple of others I helped push about 10 cars out of the mud on the campsite carpark.
On another note I hope the fella with the 300bhp MINI managed to get out ok

thechosenfamily

332 posts

184 months

Monday 16th July 2012
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XJSsometimeSoon said:
We arrived at Silverstone yesterday, got parked up, lugged all of our camping gear to our pitch. Put the tent up and sunk our first beer. Then like a brick in the face that oh st momenet, we could find the envelope with our tickets.... we ripped our tent apart but they were nowhere to be found.
we asked a marshal at the entrance and some fantastic person had found them and hanaded them in. If you are this person or know of them a huge thank you. You have enabled us to have a great time so far and restored my dwindling faith in humanity. There are a couple of drinks owed to you.
Right back to the mud infested tented.....
My mate did this two years ago now.

We had driven overnight to the circuit, my mate went to the little boys room and the tickets must have dropped out of his pocket, spent ten minutes searching around back, pockets etc until a crowd control guy came over and handed them over.

There are decent people in this world but, IMHO maybe a little harder to find.

stephen300o

15,464 posts

257 months

Monday 16th July 2012
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Good to hear.

Munter

31,331 posts

270 months

Monday 16th July 2012
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I once fished a guys LeMans tickets out of a river going down the pitlane when it was open for a walkabout. He's put them in with his fancy camera. When he got the camera out they must have dropped out the bag. I spotted them shortly afterwards floating away from me and thought they were mine, so grabbed them then checked my pocket and now I had 2 tickets... I looked up stream and there is a worried looking photographer desperately going through his stuff! Lucky chap.

Fantuzzi

3,297 posts

175 months

Monday 16th July 2012
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Faith restored? Did you ever have faith in humanity to be just and true...

Jasandjules

72,564 posts

258 months

Monday 16th July 2012
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Great to hear.