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Deadly Deadly Diggers
May. 24th, 2007 05:38 pmWell, my second-to-last day of secondary school was certainly exciting! Oh, not being at school, or even the Sport's Day, but what we came home to.
First we saw was on the road, with the blue flashing lights of an ambulance, the dumper on its side and stones across the road. Our gardener was opening the gates and mum wound down the window - Jim across-the-road had tipped the digger and was bleeding like anything. So we finish down the drive, and there's the sound of spinning rotors above our heads as the Devon Air Ambulance tries to find a place to land.
So, yeah - he was lucky, really - he could have been killed. According to Ernie, what happened was that he missed the gear on the last load of brickwork, rolled down the slope and then found that the brakes didn't work. Then he dove and... well, his arm didn't look too pretty after.
All the ones around with adjacent fields came a looking, mostly under the pretence of making sure the horses were all right with the helicoper, which goes to show what a bunch of nosy farmers we all are. My sister used her phone to take a vid of the Air Ambulance as it left our field. Remember: it's a charity that relies on donations, and doesn't get any help from the government. But we need it - a lot.
First we saw was on the road, with the blue flashing lights of an ambulance, the dumper on its side and stones across the road. Our gardener was opening the gates and mum wound down the window - Jim across-the-road had tipped the digger and was bleeding like anything. So we finish down the drive, and there's the sound of spinning rotors above our heads as the Devon Air Ambulance tries to find a place to land.
So, yeah - he was lucky, really - he could have been killed. According to Ernie, what happened was that he missed the gear on the last load of brickwork, rolled down the slope and then found that the brakes didn't work. Then he dove and... well, his arm didn't look too pretty after.
All the ones around with adjacent fields came a looking, mostly under the pretence of making sure the horses were all right with the helicoper, which goes to show what a bunch of nosy farmers we all are. My sister used her phone to take a vid of the Air Ambulance as it left our field. Remember: it's a charity that relies on donations, and doesn't get any help from the government. But we need it - a lot.
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