NZ biker escapes tsunami on motorbike

[Monsterbishi]

If that had happened here, there would have been a cop with a laser gun booking everyone fleeing the wave.

And then we'd all get off because he couldn't prove that it was you he laser'd.. or the wave...

[What?]

If that had happened here, there would have been a cop with a laser gun booking everyone fleeing the wave.

[actungbaby]

Kerry Baas of Christchurch escaped the tsunami on a motorbike.

The 43-year-old, who was in Phuket visiting friends, was in the Patong area when the tsunami hit.

She jumped on her motorbike to escape water rushing down the main street, heading north to Kamala, only to find it had been destroyed when she arrived. "It looked like a bomb had hit," she said.

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gee sounds like good reason to speed, wonder what model bike it was make good

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[actungbaby]

Baas wasn't the only one to escape in this way. When I was doing my usual news round on New Year's Eve, I also found that a UK holidaymaker had escaped in the same way:

'Simon Tunningley, 36, from Worksop cheated death in the Asian tsunami disaster by fleeing the wall of water on a motorbike. He raced inland on the hired bike as the huge wave swept all before it on the island of Phuket.

Speaking of his escape, Tunningley added "I'm lucky to be alive.".'

So I really wouldn't be facetious...

On a slightly change of direction, if not topic, we've also heard tell of a 10 year old English girl, who had been studying tsunamis just a few weeks ago - so she picked up on the tell-tale signs that something is wrong (apparantly, the tide goes out a long way and very quickly), told her mum who warned the hotel staff. So they got all the residents off the beach and went to the upper floors of the hotel, with the result that no lives were lost at that beach.

When they spoke to the girl, she was incredibly modest and said she wasn't to be thanked, it was her teacher for telling her.

I saw that on close up was awsome wasint it smart girl

[Brayden]

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