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Offline Symon

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Get a load of this....
« on: June 15, 2011, 10:12:58 PM »
Today I went for a run out to Notch Point to say G'day to Brett, and on the way back I decided to do a bit of a detour and have a look at Cape Palmerston.

So out on the beach I go, and halfway down the beach I come across this, totally abandoned -









From the look of it it was stranded fairly recently (maybe on the morning tide), all of inside was covered in sand.  I tried to pull it further up the beach so it would be easier for NP&W to get a truck to it, but even with the help of a passerby with a Pajero the best we could do was about 15m.

I have no idea what was going through their heads taking this out onto the beach.  Where it was stuck is a known spot for really soft sand, it had no chance of making it up the beach, and even if it did it would be pretty tough going to get to the campgrounds.
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2011, 10:18:39 PM »
I don't think there was much going thru their heads at the time.. But it does remind me of a time when I mate took a bog stock '78 subie into the dunes and got it bogged upto the axles and called rac to tow him out  ;D

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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2011, 10:19:39 PM »
Maybe it was an amphibious vehicle that was used by asylum seekers and ditched when thy hit land  ;D

On a  serious note i would say they must have been under the influence of something  :cheers:
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2011, 10:23:08 PM »
Yeah, from a quick look inside it was definitely a hippie wagon :)

You can still see some of the tree branches that they laid down to try and get some traction.
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2011, 10:23:49 PM »
It will be driven by the same type of idiots who come out here and tear up our outback dirt roads when they're wet and closed because "they're tourists and the roads aren't closed to them"... ::) (no joke, that is what people have told the publican at Louth when he queried why they were there when the roads had been shut.)

Worst case of littering I've seen for a while...hope they track down the owners and fine them appropriately.
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2011, 10:26:09 PM »
Finders keepers if you can get it home.
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« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2011, 10:38:07 PM »
I do wonder if they were Australian or some other back packer, considering they have no NFI about driving on sand.
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2011, 10:40:31 PM »
We got called out to a few recoveries like that out Boat harbour in the RFS - usually at high tide, the dude about 1-2klms round the beach with no way on earth of getting to him until low tide.... so we'd go home, no way I was driving our tanker up the beach at high/king! :) Parks could sort it out tomorrow...

that bus looks lke it still has a snatch strap on the front?
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2011, 10:45:10 PM »
It was a ratchet strap, I hope they didn't try to use it to pull it out.
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2011, 10:46:34 PM »
Quote from: Symon on June 15, 2011, 10:45:10 PM
It was a ratchet strap, I hope they didn't try to use it to pull it out.
Judging by their mentality id say they did  ???
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2011, 10:49:46 PM »
Quote from: Symon on June 15, 2011, 10:45:10 PM
It was a ratchet strap, I hope they didn't try to use it to pull it out.
You know they did  LOL!!!
here they are 10 mins after getting stuck

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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2011, 10:58:09 PM »
 ;D last seen doing a Macca's run  :cheers:
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2011, 11:01:13 PM »
Are you sure is wasn't Darren, Gunna Do and Danbri heading south early for this coming weekend...
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2011, 07:15:07 AM »
Hutchie62 The neighbours will be really thrilled if you start a comune for dead Hippy Movers .
                       Dont You Dare !!! :D
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #14 on: June 16, 2011, 07:20:06 AM »
Quote from: GU Rich on June 15, 2011, 11:01:13 PM
Are you sure is wasn't Darren, Gunna Do and Danbri heading south early for this coming weekend...

No, we will be in a wicked van 'eh geeza'

I think its great, good on them for having a go, plus, now you have accomodation on the beach, I hope it had a solar set up to keep the fridge cold.
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2011, 07:30:05 AM »
hope they make them pay for the recovery,
and I would make them pay dearly for the price of stupidity.........
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2011, 11:55:56 AM »
That's pretty funny.

No plates on the front - did they take the rear one as well?

Good work trying to drag it away, by the sounds of things someone will need to get a tractor down there.

Thanks!
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« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2011, 12:11:42 PM »

Gee I could not remember where I parked the Car... O0 Thanks symon.
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #18 on: June 16, 2011, 03:30:19 PM »
Quote from: Matto on June 16, 2011, 11:55:56 AM
No plates on the front - did they take the rear one as well?

Yeah they took the plates off, but not the compliance plate with the VIN number on it, so they will be able to track them down.
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #19 on: June 16, 2011, 05:53:09 PM »
Thats not the " A Team  " on holidays is it  ???
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Re: Get a load of this....
« Reply #20 on: June 16, 2011, 08:24:52 PM »
Quote from: darren on June 16, 2011, 07:20:06 AM
now you have accomodation on the beach,

At 9am it is beach front, at 3pm it is one of those nifty over/in water bures that have in the islands.
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