the champs we are stuck with in nelson


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Re: the champs we are stuck with in nelson

Postby vvilly » Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:34 am

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Re: the champs we are stuck with in nelson

Postby slide » Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:21 pm

Edited for ya
the chumps that get stuck in nelson

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Re: the champs we are stuck with in nelson

Postby oldblue » Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:30 pm

From memory, a few years back there were quite a few trucks being drowned in that river and the insurance companys wern't happy.
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Re: the champs we are stuck with in nelson

Postby Suza » Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:46 pm

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Re: the champs we are stuck with in nelson

Postby y60 safari driver » Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:38 pm

slide wrote:Edited for ya
the chumps that get stuck in nelson


haha very good.

yeah i hope they had to pay for the chopper

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Re: the champs we are stuck with in nelson

Postby slide » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:01 am

I don't know why they just don't throw them a rope, tell them to tie it round them, then swim, and rope stops them going downstream (reel it in as they get closer).
What would happen if they'd tried it in a river somewhere that no-one would have found them for hours/days?
Sure, if river was in flood, and lives could be lost....
(but in that event a neighbour got in a kayak and rescued the 'victims')
But look at the picture, other people waded out to connect a rope to tow out...
Surely this would be at least twice as dangerous (get pinned against truck by current) than swimming away from truck?

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Re: the champs we are stuck with in nelson

Postby DaveM » Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:14 am

slide wrote:I don't know why they just don't throw them a rope, tell them to tie it round them, then swim, and rope stops them going downstream (reel it in as they get closer).
What would happen if they'd tried it in a river somewhere that no-one would have found them for hours/days?
Sure, if river was in flood, and lives could be lost....
(but in that event a neighbour got in a kayak and rescued the 'victims')
But look at the picture, other people waded out to connect a rope to tow out...
Surely this would be at least twice as dangerous (get pinned against truck by current) than swimming away from truck?

Completely agree. I guess if something DID go wrong during the rescue, you wouldn't want to have been the one to make that call. Have to play it safe these days and go above and beyond what might be required, just to cover your own arse I guess.

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Re: the champs we are stuck with in nelson

Postby tallsam66 » Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:27 am

Must of been a very slow day and no real news to put in paper.. Hardly news worthy at all .
Perhaps the writer has a hidden agenda.

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Re: the champs we are stuck with in nelson

Postby oldblue » Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:11 am

It happened very close to a major hiway bridge, chopper flying overhead, 4x4 stuck in river. :oops:
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Re: the champs we are stuck with in nelson

Postby tomsoffroad » Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:04 am

Must of been a very slow day and no real news to put in paper.. Hardly news worthy at all


Agreed. :D

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Postby oldblue » Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:19 pm

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Re: the champs we are stuck with in nelson

Postby y60 safari driver » Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:08 pm

"An 11-year-old passenger was swept 130 metres down the river after falling off the vehicle."
they left that out of the paper.

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