Vancouver Police advise against lying in the road.....
   Register

[x]

Vancouver Police advise against lying in the road.....


Col Man is offline Col Man
Member
Posts: 193 Col Man is on a distinguished road
Location: Leeds England
April 18th, 2005, 12:43 PM

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Police in a Vancouver suburb issued an unusual warning to drivers on Monday: If you run out fuel, do not lay down on the road to get assistance.


Police were alerted to a man's body laying along the Trans Canada Highway in the predawn darkness only to discover he was "quite alive", but that his car had run out of gas and he "wanted to attract someone's attention".


"Guess it worked, but police don't really recommend this method," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Burnaby, British Columbia, said in a press release.


The man's car was towed, but no charges were filed.
Reply With Quote
Col Man is offline Col Man
Member
Posts: 193 Col Man is on a distinguished road
Location: Leeds England
April 18th, 2005, 12:43 PM

Link : http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050418/80/fglpr.html
Reply With Quote
mrmom2 is offline mrmom2 canada
Steven Hawking's Tutor
Posts: 5,380 mrmom2 will become famous soon enoughmrmom2 will become famous soon enough
Location: Kamloops BC
mrmom2's Avatar
April 18th, 2005, 01:12 PM

Hey Col Man use the URL button when posting links.Its much easier for the rest of us to check them out
Reply With Quote
Col Man is offline Col Man
Member
Posts: 193 Col Man is on a distinguished road
Location: Leeds England
April 18th, 2005, 02:42 PM

ok, will do....
Reply With Quote
passpatoo is offline passpatoo
Member
Posts: 128 passpatoo is on a distinguished road
Location: Algoma
April 18th, 2005, 11:03 PM

I had a buddy in college that worked security in a Provincial Park in northwestern Ontario. The park was popular with folks from Winnipeg. The Winnipegers, being city dwellers, were fascinated by the bright stars and northern lights at this park and would lay on the ground to easily accomplish this task; however, the only place with an unobstructed view of the sky was the roads. Numerous times a summer my buddy would be driving around the park doing his normal security rounds and happen across a group of these " 'toban speed-bumps" as he called them. He would then have to get out and explain why laying in the middle of an unlighted road, in the dark was such a bad idea.
Reply With Quote
canada500 is offline canada500
Super Genius
Posts: 1,320 canada500 is on a distinguished road
Location: Winnipeg
April 18th, 2005, 11:06 PM

What can I say, Passpatoo...we like to drink a lot here in Winnipeg.
Reply With Quote
passpatoo is offline passpatoo
Member
Posts: 128 passpatoo is on a distinguished road
Location: Algoma
April 18th, 2005, 11:20 PM

Yeah, and we liked to drink in Winnipeg alot too!!
Reply With Quote
Ten Packs is offline Ten Packs
Mighty Intellect
Posts: 1,506 Ten Packs will become famous soon enough
Location: Kamloops BC
Reply
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.8
Copyright ©2000 - 2008, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
About Canadian Content | Contact Us | Archive | Technology | Free Downloads | Top
(C) Copyright Canadian Content Interactive Media. Usage is subject to our Terms of Service at http://www.canadiancontent.net/corp/TOS.html