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Love that pic of your Dad Charliewool, heres my ol boy at Muriwai Beach races, was timed at 107 mph. Really miss the smell of castor, Solos became a second level sport here in NZ when they replaced the cinders with clay at Western Springs.
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My daughter is a Marine Biologist working in Broome.
Out for a walk along the beach when she saw a couple of "locals" spear this Saw Fish, then left it. So her and her boyfriend loaded it into the car and took it home, it's going to be frozen and sent to a university in Perth that is studying them. What a crying shame, these are on the "vulnerable" list. At least researches will be able to get something out of it, it's death wasn't completely in vain.
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A pic of my dad on his bike in Hungary in the late 40's early 50's?
Edit: Found another one He's 90 now and lives across the road from us...
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Great brekky, nice cars.
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carrying on the bike theme my uncle had a great job in his retirement up in Nelson looking after a collection,bikes are all down in Invercargill these days.
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Something a bit more random,parked outside the watering hole the other day had this lovely old Brougham pull up behind me,thing was in fantastic nick.
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Working at a brown coal fired power station with our own open cut mine, I'm well aware of incidents where vehicles have been flattened by the dredgers (and stackers) relocating, but that is primarily because of a significant number of blind spots. Just curious.
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Apparently they didn't know the Ute was parked in front of it as the TA had dropped the Tradie off at the front of the truck by the stairs then took of to fill the water bottles up from the ice machine down at the mess, when he came back he went to park in the shade of the truck, which happened to be in front of it. When the truck moved forward it rolled the ute over before driving the front wheels on to and over it, they stopped before the rear wheels went all the way over it, if the rear wheels had gone over it the TA would have had more than a broken collarbone and forearm to worry about, they pulled him out of the passenger side of the ute and out under the right side of the truck. In the picture they had already started to move the Ute around to pull it out, prior to this it was laying at about 45° to the truck with the right hand side of the Ute body just under the right hand rear truck wheels, it's the only photo i can find of it now. The investigation went on for ages with a lot of conflicting statements that resulted in some serious **** kicking and another book full of procedures implemented lol
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are drivers now required to always carry a change of underwear, but in that case that would have been the least of his worries.
Wonder if he stayed on working or found an easier way to make a living?
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He stayed on but ended up working in the warehouse, he's still there today...
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