AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

[tigerbear]

I still can't believe what happened while I was at work today.
Basically I got a call to a minor RTA (nothing unusual there) but on the way we had to go down a one way street that met with a main road that is fairly quite, any ways this one way street is rather long so we thaught we wouldn't use the two tones but drive pink (blues only). As we approched the end we spotted a mini at the junction so I gave a long blast of the tones, "NOTHING HAPPENS" so I give another blast again nothing happens so by this time we are right up the mini's arse so decide to put tones on and see what happens and you guessed it NOTHING (no room to go round but pleanty of room and clear for mini to turn onto main road, so I got out to see what the problem was and to ask the driver to move, as I approch drivers door the window rolls down and there is a little old lady sitting behind the wheel, so in my politest voice I ask why she hadn't moved? and do you know what the answer was?......................... "I WAS WAITING FOR YOUR BELL TO COME ON" I couldn't believe it I have been a paramedic for 25 years and been in the service for 27 and I have never had a bell on my ambulance. it was todays joke of the mess room

[mybrainhurts]

I remember bells, you young whippersnapper, you.

After a while, they were electric, too......

[oldred]

tigerbear said:

"I WAS WAITING FOR YOUR BELL TO COME ON"

Ah bless her

[8Pack]

What a Ding-a-Ling!

[ca092003]

A dose of morphine and make it a large one!

>> Edited by ca092003 on Sunday 31st October 00:17

[popov123]

Sorry to be a stick in the mud here, but this is another example of someone of advanced years who should not be allowed to drive freely on public highways any longer.

Not quite so sweet if some poor sod is waiting for an emergency call from the ambulance...

There was an old dear, in a mini again funnily enough, who clearly had no idea how to drive any more and was travelling the wrong way round a major roundabout in town. Perhaps more worryingly - she must have had to drive the wrong way up a stretch of dual carriageway to arrive in that position in the first place...

[Marki]

ca092003 said:

A dose of morphine and make it a large one! >> Edited by ca092003 on Sunday 31st October 00:17

She had already had one that was the problem

[autismuk]

popov123 said:

Sorry to be a stick in the mud here, but this is another example of someone of advanced years who should not be allowed to drive freely on public highways any longer. Not quite so sweet if some poor sod is waiting for an emergency call from the ambulance... There was an old dear, in a mini again funnily enough, who clearly had no idea how to drive any more and was travelling the wrong way round a major roundabout in town. Perhaps more worryingly - she must have had to drive the wrong way up a stretch of dual carriageway to arrive in that position in the first place...

I used to live in Kington, a town in Herefordshire 20 years ago. Before it was bypassed in 82 it was a spectacular bottleneck on the A44 ; the main road to Mid Wales ; it was a single carriageway street with sharp bends at either end.

(They eventually got the bypass because when there was a meeting to evaluate the traffic problems someone deliberately called out the fire brigade, and total chaos ensued)

This local woman, name of Hall, use to drive an old metro. At about 10mph. Literally at about 10mph. She drove it down the main street, and would park outside the shop she wanted to visit, get out, shop, get back in, and drive to the next shop along (if it was more than about 20 feet away). This meant of course that nothing wider than a car could get past.

One of the funniest things I've seen was her being "speed chased" by trafpol. She was hunched over the wheel doing about 10mph ; the copcar was as close as it dared get following, also doing about 10mph, with the lights flashing. The woman clearly had not seen them (you couldn't miss them).

The amazing thing was she was neither particularly old, nor stupid, nor infirm.

Last time I heard she was still driving - at 10mph.

[IOLAIRE]

OK you older BiBs, who remembers "No Hiding Place" with Chief Superintendent Lockhart?
Rushing to a "heinous crime" in a gleaming black Wolseley 6/90, crossply tyres howling on the corners, with a huge chrome bell mounted on the front panel just above the bumper.
You can keep your T5s. The Wolseley was a real British police car that commanded respect.
Such gems as, "Now look here my man, I believe you are lying to me and are nothing more than a scurrilous villain! Sergeant, arrest this man!"
I mean how cool was that guy?

[pen9]

IOLAIRE said:

OK you older BiBs, who remembers "No Hiding Place" with Chief Superintendent Lockhart? Rushing to a "heinous crime" in a gleaming black Wolseley 6/90, crossply tyres howling on the corners, with a huge chrome bell mounted on the front panel just above the bumper. You can keep your T5s. The Wolseley was a real British police car that commanded respect. Such gems as, "Now look here my man, I believe you are lying to me and are nothing more than a scurrilous villain! Sergeant, arrest this man!" I mean how cool was that guy?

..........with Johhny Briggs (Corrie's Mike Baldwin) as DS Russell

........and what about "Z Cars" in the early 60's with the Ford Zephyrs?

What a host of "Stars to be" that had:

DCI Charlie Barlow - Stratford Johns
DS John Watt - Frank Windsor
DI Bamber - Leonard Rossiter
PC "Fancy" Smith - Brian Blessed
PC Bert Lynch - Jimmy Ellis
PC Bob Steele - Jeremy Kemp
PC Dave Graham - Colin Welland