The Monster Trucks "performed" in Newcastle on Saturday nite (Wrestling, Monster Trucks and not one but two circuses and all within a year - who says this town has no kulcha).
In the lead up to the great event, there were Monster Trucks on display at major intersections etc. On Friday they collecting the MT's to prepare for the show. At one location the traffic was stopped by men in the (ubiquitous) iridescent polo shirts (the symbol of authority and hard work all in the one piece of clothing). There was a small queue forming (or a traffic jam by local standards) and it was all too much for one guy who mounted the curb and started driving around all the cars. This Mad Motorist then hit the MT (or more correctly the MT hit him but that doesn't sound as good). One of the workers said that the MM was lucky it wasn't one of the other (bigger) MT's which would have completely destroyed the car and the MM inside.
The police duly attended and because the MT was not registered it had no right to be on the road and the MT driver was charged. MM got off Scot-free!
Observations -
1 - It's a Monster Truck, why does it need traffic control anyway. It could just drive over any car that got in it's way.
2 - Me thinks MM is one of those guys with a chip on his shoulder. The type who'd be at the pub and see a famous boxer and say something "You think you're such a good fighter? Fight this!" The Boxer effortlessly duck under a wild air swing. dodge a slow punch, then calmly and politely give the guy a small quick clean jab - flush on the noise and knock him out.
Blog Tour for Into Bones Like Oil
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The fabulous Tricia Reeks at Meerkat Press organised a Blogtour for the
launch of my novella Into Bones Like Oil. I got to talk to all sorts of
interesting...
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1 comment:
actually, jimmy, they do kinda need trafic control. a friend recently witness an incident in jesmond where he monstr truckwas trying to get out of the carprak where it was actually advertising the monster trucks. the guy hd all the trafic stopped and the monster truck was slowly driving down over the footpath, when some fool who was sick of waiting at the lights decided to pull out and pass about six cars, oblivious to the oncoming moster truck. bye, bye, car. but it begs the question, are moster trucks mean, or angry or in any way really any more monsterous than a normal truck or car.
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