so upset at the moment, another old work colleague from up north took his life on sunday (yesterday) i knew he had been doing it tough but never thought it would come to this :(
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so upset at the moment, another old work colleague from up north took his life on sunday (yesterday) i knew he had been doing it tough but never thought it would come to this :(
Not good mate. guys hide their feelings too much, talk to some one please
even a stranger
so sad :( no one should have to feel so bad that it comes to that
It wasn't today but it's on my mind so I'm having a rant about it......
Bloody young people in 4x4's........all full of cash & testosterone & no brains. And I'm extra angry because for making me think this way I feel like an old fart at the ripe old age of freakin 35!!!!!!
I happen to live a stone's throw (almost literally) from what is becoming a popular 4x4 bog hole/muddy swamp. What seems attractive about it I have no idea. It's not even aesthetically pleasing. Anyhoo a few weeks ago, around 7pm I got a call from a mate who responded to a facebook (another pet hate of mine) request looking for a recovery in said swamp........multiple vehicles involved apparently. I politely refused, reasoning that if they were stupid enough to go in there after dark, they deserve to be stuck. Then the girlfriend & kids gave me the guilts. It'll be fun they said. Yeah right!!! I grew up on a farm I know how treacherous swamp is. Even a tractor would get stuck in that. I just cleaned my car a few days prior too. Against my better conscience I went. As I entered the area, there were 4x4's everywhere. Most were too scared to go right in. As I pulled up, another mate with a double diff locked 80 pulled up. He was driving past & saw the cars. There were so many ppl & cars it was hard to tell who was stuck & who wasn't. I noticed one particular GU patrol attempting to snatch out his mate. There were people standing around everywhere. Next thing he rev's the ring out of this thing & launches it. PERTWANG went the snatch strap......like I didn't see that coming. At that I ran away. I'm not losing my head for some young twat!!! Then they tied it in a knot & a 2nd attempt. From 50M away I heard it snap again. Finally they got a new strap & a slower attempt & they made it. Once they were on solid ground I had a tactful go at him. I explained how a snatch strap is an elastic band & you need to let it do it's work, which doesn't happen at full throttle. I also told him since he's the one doing the recovery he has a duty of care to the public. There were 50+ ppl standing within 10M of the action. I've seen snatch straps near on take ppl's head's off. I told him his duty of care is to make sure everyone is standing back. At least then it's not his fault if they don't listen. No recovery is worth a life. I'm not one of those ultra safety conscious ppl. I hate worksafe with a passion. But there's a HUGE difference between stupidity & common sense. On top of this, once they got out the hoards left & there was a guy still there stuck & everyone just left him because he wasn't part of that group. So my mate & I, who had the most capable cars anyway, went in to the deepest, boggiest part of the swamp where he was........in a suzuki sierra too. How he got even that far I couldn't work out. Apparently someone had tried to get him out & only got him stuck worse.....so they took off & left him. I got right up close to him & then suddenly sank. I was being lazy & wanted to snatch him instead of winching him. So my mate with the 80 winched both of us out & we went home to a beer & a karcher session. The next day I realised the remote control for my stereo had fallen out somewhere. I went back but no luck. That's what you get for helping twits I thought. Luckily I know ppl in the audio industry & got another one free the next day.
Since then there has been a facebook request for help almost every 2nd night. I'm thinking of putting up signs around the place offering recoveries for $100. I break the $100 down as follows:
$5 fuel
$45 for my time
$5 wear & tear on my gear
$10 car cleaning costs
$35 for being so stupid to go in there alone
.........................The end
Mate I see exactly what you see and I totally agree, stupid enough to go there in the middle of the night and after seeing their mates bogged there as well, my sentiments fu@k em.
I can imagine how much help you would have got if your mate wasn't there! Doing the good thing often ends up costing you.
Yeah I reckon. I can understand if it's the powerlines or something. That's unpredictable at times, especially to a novice. But swamp is swamp, boggy, muddy, swampy. It's not hard to see, even in the dark.......and on a freakin week night too. I should have just ridden my bike down there & roostered the lot of em. At least I would have had a damn good chuckle....