For the brave only: your most spectacular disaster

Picture this: - a 100,000 ton fully laden LPG tanker travelling at about 15 knots in a fairly narrow channel when this small fishing boat determines to cross the bow of this tanker. I was standing on the bridge of the tanker as duty watch-keeper. A tanker that size cannot stop on a penny, nor steer either left or right out of the way for fear of running aground. I was 17 years old at the time. The fishing boat, despite being told in no uncertain terms to get out of the way, wanted to show us who had 'right of way' and was playing 'chicken' with us to see if we would 'blink' first.

As duty watch-keeper and pilot I ordered the crew to ignore the fishermen and keep going. The fishing boat kept coming too, until right at the last second he was forced to veer away before the boat was swamped by our bow wave and wake.

 

When I was 15, I took my mom's car (without her permission of course) out on a joy ride. Didn't have a license yet, but that didn't stop me. At some point during the ride, I see flashing lights in my rear view mirror. FUCK!!! As I sat there looking at the policeman get out of his car, I realized that this was a bad idea and that I'm going to get the shit kicked out of me if my dad finds out. I panicked, and as the cop was halfway to the window, I threw the car in drive and hauled ass!!!

"NOW I'VE DONE IT" I thought to myself, as I'm driving down side streets, blowing through stop signs, major intersections, with the cop right on my tail. I had absolutely no clue what the hell I was doing, or how I thought I was going to get out of this. I was scared, but excited because I always saw shit like this in movies, and here I am!

I saw flashing lights in the distance in front of me and decided to make a quick right turn. My inexperienced, non-driving ass, didn't slow down enough to take a proper safe turn, the wheels locked, and all I saw in my tunnel vision was this huge tree. BAM!! Hit this tree head on, hit my chin and chest on the steering wheel- but that didn't stop me. I got the fuck out of the car and ran on foot. I could hear the cop say "Stop!" and I also heard shots being fired. Ran through people's yards, jumped over fences, kicked a dog in the head that came at me, and after running another block, I found a yard to hide in some bushes.

The cop that was chasing me, shows up 30 seconds later and stops in the SAME FUCKIN YARD that I'm hiding in bushes in. I hear him breathing heavy, and when he finally catches his breath, I hear him get on his radio and request K9 back up. FUUUUCK!!!! Is all I heard in my head, and I almost pissed my pants too. I wished all this was just a bad dream, but it wasn't.

Another patrol car shows up, I hear the cops talking for a good bit, and then I hear one of them whisper "Hey, look over there." The patrol car turns on the spot/search light, shines it up against the side of the house, over to the bushes I was hiding in, and I knew I was done. I could feel the heat coming off that spotlight, and hear the other cop shouting at me with his gun drawn, telling me to get down on my knees, put my hands behind my head and if I tried to run he was going to blow my head clean off. Got cuffed, put into the car, and scolded at all the way to the police station with "What the hell is wrong you, son?!"

Got locked up for 10 days in county jail for that- 15 years old.
True story.

 

You mean don't bring our girlfriends, wives or daughters around you, because you'll have sex with them, LOL!!!

 

Damn, I took my parents car out for a joy ride a few times just about that same age, but I always waited until they were out of town so they couldn’t report the car stolen.

 

I always did it when I knew they were going to be gone most of the night. That made it more exciting to me- to know that I did that shit right under their noses. I would have been living large if they went out of town and left me home alone- oh my goodness the shit I would have gotten into!!??

 

Conversely If I knew they were anywhere within a hundred miles, I would have chickened out ....lol...

 

That must have been a terrible situation for you, your story would be ideal for police training.
Almost every day, our daughter comes across someone being an idiot and it is difficult to decide whether to intervene or leave them to it. UK police are trained to always intervene if they think that children are at risk.

 

Yeah I did that shit. When I was around 11 or 12, I used to steal candy at the 7-11 convenient store on the way to school. I thought it was justified because their prices were ridiculously high. Started out small and worked my way up to whole boxes of giant-size Hershey bars, boxes of fruit pies, would throw gum in my mouth as I was taking things- I didn’t give a fuck!!

 

Doing the right thing seldom pays off in the US, where our glorious leader is likely to never spend a day in jail for commiting fraud and treason, but our whistleblowers almost always end up in jail. At the time, I was delivering pizza which has a higher homicide rate than being a policeman, despite delivery people seldom carrying weapons or more than twenty bucks. Hence, the reason I write the book that can never be written, because hippies learned the hard way to say fuck their parents, and speak directly to their children and warn them about their parents. Already they are abandoning everything their parents stand for, step by step, and seeking alternatives, as the entire white population implodes and threatens civil war.

Police training will never include how to combat corruption in their own society. They are among those still insisting a gerrymandering vote and electing whichever clown screams the loudest is a democracy, and supporting the supreme court insisting it is even OK to bust down doors without a warrant and to compel people to testify against themselves.

 

I could feel your regret in that story and that was truly sad, and yet, powerful! I’ve seen people do the same thing- leave really young kids unattended in heavy traffic areas and it makes my skin crawl!

 

Civilization turns everyone into animals.

 

Over the last 50 years, I have only had 2 monumental disasters.

The first was when to make replacement of a battery easier, I moved the old batteries into an adjacent room while we installed the new set. The weight of the old batteries collapsed the floor in the temporary location and involved a lengthy clean up operation as hundreds of gallons of sulfuric acid leaked out.
Fortunately it happened after the new batteries were online If it had happened earlier, the costs would have run into tens of thousands of pounds.

The second was spending 2 weeks allowing a team of painters to paint a ceiling the wrong color. The scaffolding alone cost £15,000. and we had to leave it up for a further 2 weeks, adding a few thousand to the cost.

Perhaps the luckiest escape was the day that engineers were fitting a cantilever over a stage and called me to say that they had discovered a metal cylinder behind the walls and asked me to calculate a welding variation.
Totally confused, because their was no steel in the walls, I decided to visit the job and arrived just in time to stop them grinding for a plate attachment into an unexploded 500 pound WW11 bomb that had lodged between two walls.
It had not been realized for more than 20 years, because engineers had assumed that it was a disused water calorifier.

 

This one time
It ended well, but makes me cringe now - I was visiting a friend in a coastal city, we ate some mushrooms and decided to drive to the beach which was fucking stupid because we had a perfectly nice city to walk around, it would have been perfectly pleasant on shrooms
But we got behind the wheel of a car and proceed to take an hour long adventure to find the beach that should have only been 15 minutes away. Do you guys have any idea how badly shrooms mess with your sense of direction? I didn't until that night.
And we're in the car and I'm staring at my friend in amazement because I have no idea how he's driving, the lights from the streetlights and headlights were fucking everywhere man, I was overwhelmed by all the lights.
We called our friends back home, they had mapquest up trying to help us lol.
We asked some elderly gentleman at a gas station for directions, poor guy. We start screaming "you're the King!" At him when he looked at us like we were retarded and pointed to the next road and said "take a right and you run into the beach"
So we took a right and finally found the beach, thanks to the King. It was really cool on shrooms. The end

 

Made me "lol"

 

What you say about the police is not true in the UK, As you may remember they investigated the expenses fraud and a few MP's went to prison.
I cannot say too much on here, since both Jane and our daughter are covered by the official secrets act, But it is just as well that Theresa May stepped down as our prime minister.

 

The UK merely follows wherever the US leads, and your politics are now becoming as corrupt as any other. You cannot attack what you cannot comprehend, which is the international conglomerates working their way from the top to the bottom, while all that money takes on a life of its own that can crush anyone and any culture in its path. They have all the time, money, and guns in the world to do whatever the fuck they want.

Hence, we go straight for the children who are progressively rejecting everything their parents stand for, because they are killing the entire planet and themselves.

 

You don't half talk a load of bollocks about things you happen to know nothing about !!!

 

Brexit ain't nothing more than the banks moving in, using divide and conquer, hammer and anvil. You will be able to beat them back over and over again, but the banks will never give up knowing your politics have historically been as corrupt as any other.

 

Ew
less Brexit talk, more fun stories

 

I assume that he spends half of his day on HF and the other half on youtube.