Funny what U find out

Oct 22, 2004 0 Replies

When fitting a new rear wiper in Halfords car park!!



A chap wanders up, and says "OI, that used to be mine.. Well my outfits"



My 110 looks like either a slow police vehicle, or motorway maintenance, with orange/red stripes (and roof) / chevrons etc etc... But used to be part of the small specialist company in Corby that the emergency services use for marine and generally watery rescue, so is sort of kitted out to git in.



The chap in question was the MD, and we had the usual arms folded natter about my pride and joy, and he said how it was thier main rescue vehicle for some years, and was regularly guided in by helicopter, he had a really good look over it, just to see how it was getting on and all that... Exciting stuff.



Then he dropped the bombshell.. Because it was thier only LWB, it was also thier only recovery vehicle... Images came up, yes cars get stuck in rivers etc... NO... BODY recovery.. It seems it had a good supply of body bags... Eauch. It regularly was used to recover bodies from unspeakable places, and ferried them to the waiting ambulances.



The guy was serious too, I did plug him, thinking he was pulling my leg, but he was serious.



My only comment was... "I'm NOT going to tell the missus"


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