On 1/29/05 11:04 AM, "Pensioner" <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET> wrote:

> From:    Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
> Subject: Re: Friday
> 
> Talking about stupid Vanagon things...
> 
> 
> was driving out of Victoria the other day, accelerating form a stop
> light, just getting out of first when there was this almighty bang, the
> kind of short sharp explosion you feel in your chest as much as hear.
> 
> My first thought was that I had backfired when shifting, something that
> has never happened in this van, but that was my first though. Maybe if
> I lived somewhere else I would have thought about something more
> threatening :)
> 
> I looked in my side mirror and I saw one of those big concrete pumpers
> (Putzmeister) pulling over and still a cloud of dust by one of its many
> rear tires.
> ....
> 
> Putzmeister!  Anyone else with a smattering of yiddish german on the list.
> Betcha Putzmeisters are very popular along Castro street.
> 
> 

Couple years ago going around town on I25 myself and others started dodging
a large wet spot/stream of oil on the road and parts of a vehicle.  My son
mentions that a large chunk looks just like a transmission part I had on my
bench (the gear stack). Then we noticed a cement truck sitting at the bottom
of the slope and dripping a large puddle, and more parts/chunks of metal
leading up to it with a very shocked driver looking under it.

Wished I could have stopped to go back and see that one.  That one must have
made one h### of a bang!  look ma...no gears!!!
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