The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Just One More on August 31, 2010, 06:27:12 AM
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Source (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-11125444)
Firefighters and paramedics were called in to free a man who became trapped in a flume at a swimming pool complex in Hampshire.
Two fire crews and an ambulance were called to the Basingstoke Aquadrome on Sunday afternoon.
The man was thought to have suffered a broken leg and then became stuck half-way down the flume.
A Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said they were assisting South Central Ambulance Service.
It would have been an interesting rescue. Here's the venue
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.postimage.org%2FCFKGi.jpg&hash=c9b2357d6d1fd2633c5d351e18ab7fd8225282be) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=TsCFKGi)
My thoughts went to how they rescued him, a bloody big plunger? increase the water flow massively and flush him through? Cut a section out and catch him?
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lol: lol: lol:
Perhaps they sent a huge knob of butter down it to ease him out...
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Prolly just a huge knob.
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You are suggesting they flew BM in specially, like? eeek:
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You are suggesting they flew BM in specially, like? eeek:
You leave my knob out of this! cussing:
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You are suggesting they flew BM in specially, like? eeek:
You leave my knob out of this! cussing:
Now now .... No need to get worked up over such a little thing.
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You are suggesting they flew BM in specially, like? eeek:
;D
Local reports do suggest that 'Knob Man' did rescue the poor chap but I had no idea that BM is AKA Knob Man. We are in the presence of a super hero. worthy: I bet his bestest friend is Bat man.
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You are suggesting they flew BM in specially, like? eeek:
;D
Local reports do suggest that 'Knob Man' did rescue the poor chap but I had no idea that BM is AKA Knob Man. We are in the presence of a super hero. worthy: I bet his bestest friend is Bat man.
whistle:
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Why do I have a vision of BM being rammed down the pipe head first?
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Why do I have a vision of BM being rammed down the pipe head first?
Wishful thinking...? rubschin:
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Does Knob Man wear his pants on the outside.
Snoops I hope that this helps to rid you of the image of BM being rammed down a pipe head first. angel1
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Does Knob Man wear his pants on the outside.
After the first week.... whistle:
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Why do I have a vision of BM being rammed down the pipe head first?
Wishful thinking...? rubschin:
As if angel1
Nah, The Fire Brigade prolly blasted him out with a hose.
They rate up to about 300psi those hoses of theirs.
The local "Retained" boys that used our pub (it was only a two minute sprint to the Fire Station when their pagers went off) used to swear the best way to get a cat out of a tree was to turn the hose on it and rely on the fact that cats land on their feet. Apparently this method is only deployed if no members of the public are in sight. One tale involved "committing squirtage" and the cat landing some 250 yards from the tree ~ "Like one of them fooking flying squirrels" was how they described it.
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Why do I have a vision of BM being rammed down the pipe head first?
Wishful thinking...? rubschin:
As if angel1
Nah, The Fire Brigade prolly blasted him out with a hose.
They rate up to about 300psi those hoses of theirs.
The local "Retained" boys that used our pub (it was only a two minute sprint to the Fire Station when their pagers went off) used to swear the best way to get a cat out of a tree was to turn the hose on it and rely on the fact that cats land on their feet. Apparently this method is only deployed if no members of the public are in sight. One tale involved "committing squirtage" and the cat landing some 250 yards from the tree ~ "Like one of them fooking flying squirrels" was how they described it.
lol: lol: lol:
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Those lads were an absolute joy.
One (Assistant to the head honcho) thought he was the mutt's nuts. Anywhoo one day he was up a ladder with a blow torch burning the old paint of his "barge boards/soffits etc) and his pager went off. Knowing that only the first six to the station would go on the call he decided he certainly wouldn't get there in time and carried on paint scraping. Within a matter of minutes the appliance pulled up outside his house and he called down "Do you need me then lads?" .... Back came the reply "NO ~ your neighbour phoned us to say you'd set your roof on fire you soft twat"
Roundly abusing his colleagues for taking the piss he was more than somewhat upset when they put the hose on his roof, drenching him and extinguishing the fire he had indeed started.
On another occasion one of the nominated drivers was first into the station (having been in our pub knocking them back). As first driver in he activated the shutter door, leapt into the driving seat and started up as the others arrived and jumped aboard, donning their kit as they came. Last man in grabbed the telexed message of where they had to go and read it to the driver who, pissed as a newt, set off in entirely the wrong direction. From behind the bar I heard the two tones retreat into the distance up through the town and then suddenly get louder and louder until they flashed past my front window. The fire was, it seems few minutes from the pub, in the opposite direction from the fire station. An explanation was required as to how the appliance had covered some 12 miles to attend an incident only a few hundred yards from its base. They had in fact gone through Ringwood, out onto the Bypass (Dual Carriageway) .. along to the Ashley Heath Roundabout to turn and come all the way back through Ringwood to get to what turned out to be a small kitchen fire which the householder's wife had put out with a wet tea towel.
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lol: lol: lol:
Firemen always seem to be nice blokes... rubschin:
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Well they have all those hoses. ANd then there are their little choppers, like point:
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lol: lol: lol:
Firemen always seem to be nice blokes... rubschin:
Those I have known have all been very extrovert, very good fun, nice blokes all but totally, barking mad. I think it must be a requirement.
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Well they have all those hoses. ANd then there are their little choppers, like point:
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzip! point: