Category Archives: misc crap

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logging accident – kaingaroa

Here’s a report and photos of a car/log truck collision in NZ

Pete/Paul. Incident: 521 – Ford Telstar ran up rear of stems unit.
Driver: 521 Bill G.
Location of accident: Goudies Road , approx 2 Km south from Burn Rd intersection.
What happened: An idiot driving a Telstar TX5 was travelling at what appears to be excessive speed ran up the rear of 521. Two overhanging stems passed through the windscreen and out the rear window, missing the three occupants of the car. The car travelled 7 meters up the logs before hitting the rear bumper of the truck with such force that the car was jammed under the bumper and suspended off the ground by the two logs. The occupants of the car jumped out onto the road. The driver of 521 was unaware of the incident and continued on his journey along Goudies for 2.8 kms and down Pukapuka Road for a further 3.4Kms. 655 RFH stems unit was travelling up Pukapuka empty. 521 slowed to pass. In doing so the dust reduced to the stage where Bill saw a part of the car’s front bumper in his rear vision mirror. He asked Jimmy (on R/T) what was behind him. Jimmy advise a car was hanging off the stems unit. On inspection the found no passengers in the car. Bill left the truck and went with Jimmy to locate the driver etc. They found them on the side of the road near to the scene of the collision on Goudies Rd. (The ambulance and police arrived) Continue reading →

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a wee trip to boganville

Over the last weekend, I had the “pleasure” of working at the Hamilton 400. This is a weekend of hard work and hard play, so I thought I would share a few anecdotes as to what monkey business we get up to.

Winding up my husband that he was going to be random breath tested by event staff.

Grumpy Old Little Man taking the top off a burn digging in his pocket for change to buy a pie because I’d gone to the loo with his $50, and then getting medical attention for him because he was bleeding on his white overalls.

The Channel 7 Cameraman souveniring my ‘WHINCUP PARKING ONLY’ sign, only to have him display it in Race Control via his Camera. Nice one mate.

Wog Boy and Myself talking our way in to the VIP Drivers Party at The Bank on Victoria Street where we saw Lowndes, Murphy, The Giz, Coulthard, D’Alberto, Holdsworth, Caruso, Whincup, Courtney, and a few B-Grade celebs like Johnny Mac and his Daddy Mac and also Shane Drake, who for a while was worried he wasn’t going to be recognised by anyone. Awww. We still love you Drakey.

We renamed our station from “Point 13” to “Stallag 13”

Wog Boy doing the whole Nascar “boogerty boogerty lets go racing” thing down the radio to Race Control.

Kudos to Lowndes, Winterbottom, The Giz, Coulthard and Tander for signing my shirt and posing for photos, also posing for photos, Radisich and Steve Richards.

FAIL at the 6am sign on and then waiting three hours for action on the track.

Radisich in posing for a photo commented on my height and said “I was made for him”

Ford Dominance was the key undertone of the weekend. Amazing racing and some awesome memories.

You can see a selection of pics on my flickr page

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new television

The Magic Image

The Magic Image

I had decided on this particular make and model of television for a 2nd TV in our home, mainly servicing the “Cave” for MySKy HDi and Nintendo Wii and maybe the occasional DVD. Its a place I can go when watching the boys are watching the rugby. I can recline on the double bed in the sun and watch this television.

Harvey Norman’s (HN) were having an LCD Clearence sale and had the above television for $1088 at Manukau and $1188 at Pukekohe. Not sure of why there is the $100 difference, but I took this photo at DSE Powerhouse Manukau. I’m not the only person to have found a difference.

Using this photo on my cellphone, I showed to it the salesman at HN Pukekohe. They had to ask their supervisors permission to sell that TV to me, BELOW COST.

So do I have the TV now, yes. How much did I pay? $879.00. Where did I buy it from? Harvey Norman Pukekohe.

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Back to the Grindstone

The summer holidays have ended at last… its back to work for me….