On 13/07/2018 21:39, Tim+ wrote:
ARW Wrote in message:
On 13/07/2018 20:48, Tim+ wrote:
ARW Wrote in message:
On 13/07/2018 19:27, Richard wrote:
On 13/07/18 19:20, ARW wrote:
Can anyone guess who fitted them to the roof of my van?

Actually it was not very funny.

I did, with the help of a bloke in a pickup with orange flashing
lights on the roof that stopped to help manage to get them off the
motorway (they were blocking lanes 2 and 3) throw them down the
banking of the hard shoulder, get the motorway running again and ****
off before the police arrived.

Oops.

I don't think that I will be showing the dashcam of that one. You
obviously cannot see the ladders but it does show how quickly the
motorway came to a stop.

You know when you are driving along a motorway and all of a sudden it
comes to a standstill for a few minutes and then you are moving again
and you are thinking "Why did we stop?"

Well today it was because of me.


BTDTGTTS.

In our case we laid a caravan on its side across two lanes of the
M6. Didn't half stop the traffic quickly.



Bet you didn't throw it down the banking next to the hard shoulder and
**** off.

Nope. Police pulled it upright, I hammered the hitch back into
shape with a lump hammer, taped the windows back in with duct
tape and carried on with a two week holiday.

We were, in many respects, extraordinarily lucky.

And had a well build caravan. What make was it?

I remember stopping to try and help when someone turned a Cabby over on
the motorway in the 70s. They were the ones advertised in magazines with
a Volvo stood on the roof. In this case, the carvan was on its side,
facing the wrong way and a Volvo was hanging from the hitch, with its
back wheels in the air. No obvious damage at all, but I don't know what
the side against the road was like.

SteveW