Beware the good Samaritan

[scientific steve]

 

Heading home from work the night, have borrowed the works pick-up till the scoob get's it's heart replaced, anyhoo, i was heading into town from Dyce direction and as usual the traffic build up before the Hadagaun roundabout was building up as usual.

this time there was an unusual amount of folk changing into the left lane way before the roundabout, strange i was thinking.

Driving a bit further the reason for this was apparent, a Rover 214 had broken down in the outside lane, Bugger me thinks but someone had stopped in front of this chap to lend a hand.

Me being me thinking that if i was in that situation i would be really thankfull if people stopped and lent a helping hand, so as i was passing i asked the chap if he wanted a push to the side of the road, big smile and a thanks and there was me pulling into the pavement and out to help the stranded road user.

So the thing is, here's me and this chap, one car and a whole bunch of rush hour traffic, GREAT, i did my best copper impression and being a big sort of chap the cars did stop when i stood out infront of them, so we set about pushing the stricken car to one side,

Now, this is the part where you people should pay attention, the chap who owned the car was incharge of steering whilst hanging onto the door pillar and pushing at the same time, i was pushing the car from the rear and we were heading towards a nice handy bus stop just a little way ahead, all i heard next was, STOP ! STOP ! Oh Christ ! STOP ! and a little crunch as he steered it into another mota on the right

Oh, i said, the chap was now a little trapped in the drivers door and said car, so i had to run round to the front of the car and push it free and release the guy from this vice.

 

To say the driver of the other car was a little bit upset is an understatement, but thats what insurance is for, right?

 

So, thats why people drive past when you are stuck at the side of the road, things can go very pear shaped very quickly.

 

again beware the good Samaritan

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

Holy Moly Guv - at least yer alright !

CGS

[scientific steve]

did feel a bit of a plank, here's me trying to help out somebody at the roadside and bang, should of been able to steer a bit better likes

[col666]

lol, nice story Steve!

[vicki]

[^o)] what a numptie, the steerer, not you Steve!

[Gumball]

top story mate.

[scientific steve]

cheers guys,

I hope i aint put anybody off from helping out some poor stranded driver cause i've been thinking about what happened

would i do it over again? yep,  will i help again? yep. because some day it could be me

but i'll have a better fookn hold of the wheel   []

[chris_c201]

Moral of the story -

Help if you can but don't trust some other numptie to steer, lol....

It shocks me the amount of people that just drive by when someone has stopped, a while back i stopped to push a car that was stuck in a right hand filter lane... everyone was just cutting round him so i pulled in behind, got out, pushed him over to the left of the road when the lights changed and then tried to get back to my car (which was still in the filter lane on its own now) and no numpty would let me out..... kept cutting round me...

Arrgghhh!

Good on you for stopping anyway Steve!

[st3ph3n]

It was a good story.

I once run out of petrol coming down the Bellshill bypass. I'll blame the dodgy Vauxhall onboard computer for telling me I had 8 miles left in the tank when I clearly didn't. Came to rest about 200 yards from the petrol station I was aiming for anyway. So I was parked at the top of the hill on the sliproad in the left hand lane. Plain view. Hazzards on. Me standing next to the car waving people past. I was going to leave the car and walk to the petrol station to get some petrol, but didn't. In the 15 minutes I was stuck whilst waiting on my brother to bring petrol about 10 cars almost ploughed into the back of me at speed. Another 5 pulled up right behind me to turn left. HELLO! HAZZARDS ON! ME NOT IN THE CAR!

How many offered help? NONE.