Citroen in the News

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I saw pictures on the BBC TV news; you can see why he thought it was a grenade or something (metal casing with a spring-loaded lever) - but you have to wonder, if he thought that, why did he pick it up and then squeeze the lever? Apparently, he managed to get some sticky tape to bind his hand to the thing so that his thumb wouldn't slip off the lever - so why not just use the tape and release his hand entirely? Not someone to rely on in a crisis!

So which bit actually was it?

CAS

Seems to suggest a sphere, but the spring loaded lever?

CAS

CAS ( snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Made up? Some reports say the "button" - which would be the filling plug.

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This puzzeles me

The bowling ball-sized item was later found to be part of a hydraulic suspension system from a car or a tractor.

Tractor? Are those spheres also used on tractors?

2Rowdy ( snipped-for-privacy@deadspam.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Yes, they are. JCB's Fastrac uses Cit hydraulics under licence. I suspect, though, that it's more a case of "well, it was found on a farm, so it's probably tractor" from the same journo that invented the spring loaded lever...

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Haha, there is logic in that :-)

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Perhaps an unrelated bit of scrap metal? That article does say 'button', so there's obviously some confusion somewhere.

Well, the incident occurred about 5 miles down the road from where I live, and this ain't Kansas, it is Norfolk ;)

You should be more careful where you drop your spheres :-)

hissing ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght... Have you been disposing of any spheres lately?

There's a difference? Flat, inbred, odd accent, backwards...

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That's why you hid in Dakar?

2Rowdy ( snipped-for-privacy@deadspam.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Ellie went to Uni in Norwich, but that's about as far as my link to the place goes.

"Toto! I don't think we're in the fens any more..."

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Euh, there's a military college there, ,

Norwich seems like a nice place.

see on bicycle distance. Must be worth a visit.Come to think about it, what's a norwitch?

:-)

2Rowdy ( snipped-for-privacy@deadspam.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Probably.

seems more likely...

You've never been there, have you?

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Aah.

No. But if I would go it would be on vacation. And during a vacation I like anything. Even the roadblock I caused with my BX in Grasse, France. Makes great tales :-) I even liked Tilshead (at least I think I was there). That's a place where there is nothing for miles around.

Norwich is a pretty decent place (actually, it must be as it has a decent Citroen main dealer with people who knew what I was burbling on about when I was asking questions about my Activa over the phone!) it could be much worse though, it could be up north!

My brother saw the "bomb" on the tele and apparently it looked exactly like a suspension sphere, the guy said he removed a plastic cap from the end which I guess must have been the cover to stop dirt getting into the sphere or the threads getting damaged. He then says he pressed the "button".....

hissing ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

It'll have been recharged at some stage, then, with a one-way valve replacing the plug, and a dirt cover over the valve.