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Thats Lional Rose!! SUPERSTAR downunder...
O.k there all asleep over there anyway...
As I seem to have every dead,dying and dessesed DYNA in the southern hemisphere( little 3 ton trucks) I got a call from one of our native freinds, he needed to "get a few bits" for his coaster bus (runs the same engine)..Cool, the wife was happy, allways keen to disolve the DYNASCLUB from down the back...
I dropped in a head and a set of conrods to the engine shop for him...A couple of weeks later he and his tribe pile in and off they go. They pick up the caravan thats been in storage, and head back to the shack they've being camping in..
"On the pizz" (great aussie expression) they got, and got, and got...Once they all passed out, the candel in the van did as most candels do, and started a fire in the van....The people in the house saved the people in the van, but the van in turn set fire to the house....UHF raidos are very common here and while us rural fighters are on the way(town guys will be 40-50mins) I keep getting updates from the seen....
I had a pretty good idea of what to expect when we got there..
Van engulffed---house engulfed---back of coasterbus on fire HMMMMM (the pri#k never did pay me for the head) "COME ON GUYS WE CAN SAVE THE MOTOR"....i'm out there, swinging a chain with a grappel hook, hooks on to the back of our fire truck.."'DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE" the lads are out with the hoses..
We saved the motor...Bits of burning caravan falling off everywhere...**** it must of looked funny..
"WHAT ABOUT THE BLOODY HOUSE" the sober ones are yelling...
"Have a bloody look at it" I yell back "nothing I can do" ...but the motor now thats worth saving...
There was your "odd complaint" it seems about the incedent...."Arnt they suppossed to do somthing about the house?"
I had to front up to the regional cheif about it to (first for me?)
He was so stokked that I scored a good motor for my truck."Bout bloody time you got somthing out of all the **** you do for us"
and laughfed our heads off about all the gossip floating around..Could you imagine some of the stories floating around a small place like this?...I couldent.. but hey I got a new motor with 42klms on it , and old mate that had the bus..If the guy whose house he burnt down catches up with him, lets just say i could easily get 500k out of the engine before he'll want it back...
As far as the homeowner went, he was happy for all the burnt stuff to be out of there...
I'll put its new engine number on the forms tommorow...been busy as a lizzed drinkin, got to go check out whats been going on around here...Best of luck,Derek...