Darwinism...

[Skytrucker]

I wonder if I am the only bloke in the whole history of the Air Force to have run himself over with a Landrover...

 

[gemarriott]

I know of a couple of fellow plumbers who have run over themselves with various mega complicated and unreliable self propelled mechanical weapon handling machines but nobody dumb enough to run themselves over with a rover.


Over with a rover, I ought to be a poetDT_Xtremez_14:

 

[taz01]

Poet that wears pink !!! One of gods chosen too. Oh the shame !!!!!!

 

[Hu Jardon]

I wonder if I am the only bloke in the whole history of the Air Force to have run himself over with a Landrover...

No it was a common thing when I worked in the Bomb Dump. Game was to set the hand throttle and get out and run round the wagon and get back in - if you ran yourself over you lost - simple Most folk thought that was enough but I did see acouple try it and fail with the rough terrain forklift which leaves some cracking bruises

 

[gemarriott]

No it was a common thing when I worked in the Bomb Dump. Game was to set the hand throttle and get out and run round the wagon and get back in - if you ran yourself over you lost - simple Most folk thought that was enough but I did see acouple try it and fail with the rough terrain forklift which leaves some cracking bruises

Christ on a bike I'd forgotten that game, couldn't do it now thoughDT_Xtremez_42:

 

[Saracens959]

Slightly off topic - There was a Major RMP who ran himself over in Basrah. Forgot the handbrake during an attack.

 

[propersplitbrainme]

Necroposting, but this public information film from Australia made me laugh....




Its also spawned a whole host of copies.

 

[he_who_dares_rodney]

I wonder if I am the only bloke in the whole history of the Air Force to have run himself over with a Landrover...

I once got my self bogged in on a hill with Rovers finest.
Stuck her in second and dug her out.
Chucked some bricks under the wheels and thought tht's cracked it.
Cue curseing as it not only sorted it but it shot off down the hill gathering speed.
Caught up with it only just and clambered in again only just.

I did watch a mate jump out of a Bedford TM down in Salisbury.
I watched his shocked face as he departed the scene sprawled on top of a landrover spare wheel.

 

[LoneRanger]

When I worked in Gutersloh Bomb Dump in the late 70s the game while traveling along the ring-road to the Mess at lunchtime in the short-wheelbase Rover, was to climb out through the drivers window over the top & back in through the passenger window!
There was a host of weather related games & pastimes organized in the dump depending on the time of year.

I also remember a certain day returning from MT towing a 1 ton trailer we used to carry OTR equipt( I worked in Arm Ground Support Equipt), when we suddenly realized that it was no longer connected to us, then it over-took us & shot across a small bridge onto a grassed area & the towing arm dug into the deck & it came to a halt. As we reversed up to it & hitched up making sure we put the locking pin in the towing hitch this time, the Comms guys who were erecting a temporary aerial did give us some strange looks??

Another amusing day was when the Fire Section tried to drain the emergency water tank near the bomb dump gate, but that's another story!