Superstitious?

[DanP]

Driving around the back of Sheeitsville at exactly midnight on 1/1/2006, going to a crap job for someone letting off fireworks (for the hundredth time for the night), I stopped the car to ring MrsP to wish her Happy New Year. Sitting there and at about midnight and thirty seconds a dirty big black cat walks across in front of the car.:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Now, I am the last person to get superstitious but my offsider who was once an AFL footballer...:rolleyes: says, "Oh No. That's a bad start to the year":rolleyes:

About ten seconds later we get a call that the fireworks had started a grass fire that was getting bigger by the second. Finished with that job (Thank god the CFA are on the ball around here - evacuating several thousand campers at ten past midnight on NY...not fun).

Drove back to town and within a minute of getting back to town, see a bloke lob an empty can over his shoulder. I HATE THAT. Stop to tell him to pick it up and warn him (it is NY after all). Refuses to give his details. Even after being told he would get arrested if he didn't. A struggle ensued and his mother even got involved. Got into the back of the car (not the van) from where he proceeded to throw punches at my offsider. It took some time to subdue him ;) and get him into the cells. Now the cells at Cobram are not used for holding, they are only for temporary use. The nearest drunk cells are 45 min drive away. Off we go and lock the silly bugger up and don't get back till pretty late (or early).

So... whaddya think, am I doomed...

Dan

PS Every time I think I've seen the stupidest person alive, a new one comes along and proves me wrong.:mad:

[Ian007]

no your not doomed at all, and to prove it you should go into the shed and do something that you know you cant fail at, like





















































sharpening a pencil:D

just in case you hurt yourself:p

[Driver]

Dan

Don't read anything into this, mate. The truth is, you're a front-line scraper-upper of dickheads. New Year's just brings the buggers out in greater numbers.

For whatever it's worth, I have nothing but admiration for you and your mates. I literally could not do your job. I know I don't have what it takes and I'm glad that some of you do.

I hope that you and your wife and little ones have a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous and Successful New Year! Many of them!

Col

[E. maculata]

What Col said Dan, I couldn't do it, I'm by many accounts fairly easy going, but still reckon a Bloke could do his block fairly often with some of the situations you Blokes have to deal with. I like that stupid person quote, ties in with our stupid people sightings.:D

[Schtoo]

I'm looking for the third thing, but it's eluding me. Quick, think of something bad that has happened recently and you should be right. I hope... ;)


Not superstitious at all, just nothing bad has happened to me yet, touch wood. :D

At least you got through another new year without too many hiccups. Gotta be a good thing. :)

[Farm boy]

dan all the best to your family for new year

mate i wouldnt have your job for quids unless it payed heaps then i would still want more money:D

have some shed time when you get home from work or play with the kids it will make you realise how lucky you are:)

cheers
greg

[Termite]

For various reasons, all good, a lot of my friends wear blue. What you have described, frustrating as it may be, for a GD bloke is just same old same old.
If it wasn't for the richardcraniums life would be a breeze. :D

[DavidG]

Dan
It was not a large black cat, it was a small panther and that means good luck.;)


see a bloke lob an empty can over his shoulder.The problem here is that you should have just shot him and driven off. It is then an Ambo problem. (or Garbo problem).
Have a good one.
Dave..

ps Top a biffer.

[Wongo]

Dan, blame the cat. Black or not black they are all evil.

[Iain]

Dan, blame the cat. Black or not black they are all evil.
Depends upon the marinade:D
Remember years ago working in Pentridge on NYE, midnight and all the villains went beserk banging on doors, cutlery on cups x about 300 what a hell of a racket.
Following year I was on again, midnight arrived, heard one spoon on a tin cup followed by about 6 rough voices 'F off or you'll get it at muster'
Just as an aside, I think the cat population at Pentridge back then (mid 70's) exceeded the 1200 crim head count, pick a colour any colour:D :D

[Auld Bassoon]

Hi Dan,

Maybe you could get hold of a copy of the "al ghraib" detainee treatment manual - and apply some of the "lessons" in there on these Blisters :eek: when they behave like some clearly do!

There are some "prize" ones around, aren't there?

Have a great year mate.

Cheers!

[Daddles]

Dan, blame the cat. Black or not black they are all evil.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d114/bitsa/shadowavatar.jpg OI Watch it the next time you're eating Fruchocs - some of them might taste funny :mad:
Shadow

[Daddles]

I apologise for my cat threatening to leave deposits in your bowl of Fruchocs. He's mad enough to do it too :rolleyes:
Richard

[silentC]

We were heading south on Northbourne Ave in Canberra a few days ago when some idiot in a black Honda tried to remove himself from the gene pool. He was in the right hand lane next to the car in front of us at the lights. When they changed, both he and the car in front of us floored it. The Honda streaked away at a great rate of knots. I said to the missus "where are the cops when you need them?"

I was sitting on 60, the car in front about 80, and the Honda was still pulling away (60 speed limit). A van turning right from the north bound lane didn't see him coming and pulled out in front. He slammed into the front of it, ricocheted across the road and hit a concrete light pole which then fell down.

Because we saw the whole thing, we hung around to make sure the cops knew what happened. The bird in the ute in front who was running late for work told me she was doing 80. She had to go but left her number with another guy who was at the pedestrian lights and saw it all too. The girl driving the van was a mess but I told her if anything came back on her there was something wrong because the dickhead had to have been doing 30-40km over the speed limit.

We gave our version of the story and then headed off on our way. The cop told us we were unusual because most holiday makers just keep driving. I told him we stopped to make sure everyone was OK but really I just wanted to make sure the little **** got what was coming to him. Because there was only the one other car in front of us, I saw the whole thing and we were the second car on the scene. I'm glad it happened far enough down ahead of us that we didn't get caught up in it.

Meanwhile, the police rescue guys were cutting this idiot out of his car. Sadly, it was only facial injuries from the air bag. Nice try though. The light pole was a nice touch.

[Iain]

We live opposite a T intersection which is often covered in loose gravel, every day someone slides around the corner and yesterday one lost it and wound up in the fence on the side of the road.
About once a year someone approaches the intersection towards our places, slides straight through the intersection and into the big drain at front of our place.
Great source of amusement for the horses (who just stand there and watch without any sign of fear or panic) and us alike, the best part though is that all the dickeads who lose it are locals who are there every day and not once have I seen a 'foreigner' come unstuck.
Must be something they put in the water here:D

[aussiecolector]

Should have shot the cat. Or arnt you alowd to do that.

[AlexS]

That black cat was definitely bad luck Dan...for the fwit that lobbed the beer can.
You blokes do a job that most of us couldn't and wouldn't, and you do it with amazing restraint, and often little support from the pollys and courts.

Have a great year.

[Dion N]

Dan

to ward off bad luck you must touch wood, in fact you should touch as much as possible, as often as possible. You must do this until a year has passed. Only then can you be sure that the bad luck has rubbed off...:p

[Iain]

He does, it's called a baton:D :D :D :D
Sort of reminds me of the Benny Hill skit with his send up of Charlies Angels, playing tennis, close up shot, all looked perfectly innocent, pan out and the two girls are lobbing a crim up and down the court with batons, well, I thought it was funny.

[DanP]

Thanks for the well wishes all. As for the job...

I LOVE IT. Been at it for ten years and still love getting amongst it. There are parts of the job I hate though. I don't mind dealing with dic kheads, they make it very easy for me to give them tickets or put them in the book. I hate pulling dead people from cars. Especially when there is no real reason they should be dead (most of them). Worse still is going and telling their family. As Iain said, most of em are locals, so I generally know them quite well.

By far the worst thing in the job is the politics and bullshyte paperwork that gets bigger by the day. If I go to a domestic it takes most of a shift to do the paperwork...even the crappy verbal ones.

Anyway, the cat must not be a problem, haven't had any domestics since and the paperwork is up to date...almost. :rolleyes:

Dan