Police getting tougher on speed tolerance

[Big Dog]

‘Ere will you hold this genade, while I just go around the side of the bunker with the pin

A Sergent I knew was killed when a recruit pulled the pin then dropped the grenade.

He lay on the grenade to save the recruit.

Nobody thought it was funny then.


Maybe you had to be there to see the funny side ...



if there was one.





Just saying ...

At high school some army brat brought a couple of training grenades to school.
Looked like the real thing except for a plastic plug in the bottom.
One of the ball shaped ones and a classic pineapple.

Some seniors were giving the juniors a hard time.
Taking the pins out and making them hold them at arm's length or taking the pins out and slipping the arm off while keeping the trigger plate depressed etc.

So the dorm is on parade one night for some sort of imagined infraction by the dorm prefects.

A senior bowls up, instructs me to put my hand out palm up, puts the ball type grenade in my hand, closes my hand around the arm and pulled the pin.

Unknown to him I was in on the gag as the seniors knowing of my interest in militaría had had me blow a few rumors around campus about how the year before a live grenade had gone off in the swamp on the school farm.

Clearly the oaf towing over me wasn't in on the gag.
The look was priceless when I opened my hand releasing the arm and tossed him the dummy grenade.

Never seen a room empty so fast.

Not the first night I spent on the run, nor the last but totally worth it.

[FJRider]

I haven’t tried it, but probably could do it.
so much nicer on the engine changing to second, then my mate passes me on his bike as if I had stopped.

There is a hill (for want of a better word) north of Dunedin known as the Kilmog. I was heading north (uphill) on the FJ .. a "little" over the posted limit (as you do) ... and came up on a hardly dangerous. I sort of slowed a bit ... gave him a wave .. and throttled up again.

He dropped a cog and gave it the gas ... which didn't improve his speed much. So he dropped another cog.

The view I saw in my mirror was an HD literally stalling and going end over end forwards uphill.

I turned around and went back. He was ok. Blood loss wasn't extreme. Wasn't happy ... but ok.

Some of the chrome on the HD was still ok.

I bet he wished his chaps covered his ass too.

They didn't.

I called an Ambo and left.

[eldog]

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There is a hill (for want of a better word) north of Dunedin known as the Kilmog. I was heading north (uphill) on the FJ .. a "little" over the posted limit (as you do) ... and came up on a hardly dangerous. I sort of slowed a bit ... gave him a wave .. and throttled up again.

He dropped a cog and gave it the gas ... which didn't improve his speed much. So he dropped another cog.

The view I saw in my mirror was an HD literally stalling and going end over end forwards uphill.

I turned around and went back. He was ok. Blood loss wasn't extreme. Wasn't happy ... but ok.

Some of the chrome on the HD was still ok.

I bet he wished his chaps covered his ass too.

They didn't.

I called an Ambo and left.

That was the decent thing to do.

a chap should always cover his arse.

[FJRider]

At high school some army brat brought a couple of training grenades to school.

I gave a few thunderflashes to a nephew to "Play" with. He took them to school.

He had Police ... (armed offenders) ... Fire and Ambo's ... by the dozen at his (Prmary) school before the day was over.



Kid's eh ...

[FJRider]

... a chap should always cover his arse.

A life ethic ... right there ...

[eldog]

I gave a few thunderflashes to a nephew to "Play" with. He took them to school.

He had Police ... (armed offenders) ... Fire and Ambo's ... by the dozen at his (Prmary) school before the day was over.



Kid's eh ...

glad you expanded on that, the mind boggles with giving thunderflashes to nephew.....
straight after writing about HD rider and his chaps

[FJRider]

glad you expanded on that, the mind boggles with giving thunderflashes to nephew.....
straight after writing about HD rider and his chaps

I was young and silly then.



The only thing that changed ... was getting older.

[eldog]

A life ethic ... right there ...

Too much information

[eldog]

I was young and silly then.



The only thing that changed ... was getting older.

I am still young and silly
getting more like a grumpy old man as I get older.

Sheltered life I guess

a lot less tolerant than I used to be.

much like the tolerance on speed lately, still wrong in my view

still learning, open to new ideas.

[FJRider]

I am still young and silly
getting more like a grumpy old man as I get older.

Sheltered life I guess

a lot less tolerant than I used to be.

much like the tolerance on speed lately, still wrong in my view

I thought I was still young too. The grey hair and wrinkles bore the truth.

Not so much sheltered ... but I grew up (a definite maybe and open for dispute) in a somewhat different era.

Normal has changed. And depending on whom you talk to about that ... being better or worse is still open for dispute.



Such is life nowadays ...



Just saying ...

[Big Dog]

I gave a few thunderflashes to a nephew to "Play" with. He took them to school.

He had Police ... (armed offenders) ... Fire and Ambo's ... by the dozen at his (Prmary) school before the day was over.



Kid's eh ...

I was a student at primary schools in the 70s and 80s so it's not really a shock toy guns were allowed.
Playing war at break was just what boys did.
There were a few confiscations because a child brought real guns to school.
Usually only slug guns but I do recall a Luger being confiscated when I was at Cockle Bay primary in either '79 or '80.

I also remember the day what seemed like every cop in Rotorua turned up to Lynmore primary in either '83 or '84 because a kid was brandishing a particularly authentic looking automatic style cap gun.

I also remember seeing ann unarmed cop walking slowly toward a classroom with his hands up, clearly still unsure of real or not.

Funnily enough at assembly the next day the school banned bringing any sort of gun to school other than clear or neon plastic easter pistols.

I seem to recall in the late 80's or early nineties while I was still at high school a boy in either the states or Australia being shot dead after brandishing a plastic 1911 replica bb gun and refusing to surrender it to AOS.

It was brought up at assembly in a discussion about why you should always comply with reasonable requests from authority.

Shortly the after there was a spate of armed robberies using toy guns...

[Bonez]

I am still young and silly
getting more like a grumpy old man as I get older.

Sheltered life I guess

a lot less tolerant than I used to be.

much like the tolerance on speed lately, still wrong in my view

Age does does that. Connie says I haven't lost the silly bit though. Going through another childhood phase apparently.

1, 2, 3, 4.........

[eldog]

I thought I was still young too. The grey hair and wrinkles bore the truth.

Not so much sheltered ... but I grew up (a definite maybe and open for dispute) in a somewhat different era.

Normal has changed. And depending on whom you talk to about that ... being better or worse is still open for dispute.



Such is life nowadays ...



Just saying ...

Grey hair = wisdom
wrinkles = experience

sounds like you are doing well in the school of hard knocks

[Big Dog]

Growing old is not mandatory, it is the preferable of the two options.

Growing up, that is optional.

[FJRider]

I was a student at primary schools in the 70s and 80s so it's not really a shock toy guns were allowed.
Playing war at break was just what boys did.
There were a few confiscations because a child brought real guns to school.
Usually only slug guns but I do recall a Luger being confiscated when I was at Cockle Bay primary in either '79 or '80.

I also remember the day what seemed like every cop in Rotorua turned up to Lynmore primary in either '83 or '84 because a kid was brandishing a particularly authentic looking automatic style cap gun.

I also remember seeing ann unarmed cop walking slowly toward a classroom with his hands up, clearly still unsure of real or not.

Funnily enough at assembly the next day the school banned bringing any sort of gun to school other than clear or neon plastic easter pistols.

I seem to recall in the late 80's or early nineties while I was still at high school a boy in either the states or Australia being shot dead after brandishing a plastic 1911 replica bb gun and refusing to surrender it to AOS.

It was brought up at assembly in a discussion about why you should always comply with reasonable requests from authority.

Shortly the after there was a spate of armed robberies using toy guns...

I can recall a classmate at primary school circa 1963-64 ... bringing an older brothers 303 to school ... and showing the class how to load it (with REAL ammo)


There were a few questions asked over that matter ...



And before you ask ... it wasn't me.


If I'd thought of it first ... I might have.