Myths legends and utter bull**it

[spike50]

have we had this yet ? just a thread about the mmtm and utter tosh people tell,
a few that I hear all the time , ( well not now , semi retired )
the quay at zeebruge must be about a mile wide with the amount of drivers that just missed the herald of free enterprise.

anybody remember Pinocchio who used to be the most feared gendarme on a bike , use to hunt round Cherbourg , what happened to him ? yes I know and met him a few years after the incindent .

and the red haired gendarme who hunted round the paris ring road , wouldn't speak English even tho he was Scottish , had a real bad hate for irish ,
he stopped me twice and took quite a lot of money off me .

your turn , and an internet pint for the first one that comes up with the real story of pinocchio

[chilistrucker]

Pinocchio, he was 1 horrible tt!
You used to get off the boat in the morning thinking is it my turn again today???
He used to like checking the diesel tanks back in the day!
I don't know any stories about him though???
Stuff that springs to mind,
I can do 3 valencias a week. Yeah right.

In a bag house. She's my bird that 1, I don't pay. Yeah right.

I used to be in the s.a.s. yeah right.

I ran out of time on the bay, they wanted me out, but a copper came and chalked it off. Yeah right.



I picked up these 2 stunning blind hitch hikers, and you'll never guess what they did,,,,, Yeah right.

My trucks 900bhp, does 80mph uphill and I'm on £1200 per week. Yeah right.

[spike50]

always loved the s a s one , met the full regiment on one trip , all driving for different firms .

bag house one yeah heard e few times , did you ever meet that kid from Birmingham who bought a lass out of one ?

[spike50]

I picked up these 2 stunning blind hitch hikers, and you'll never guess what they did,,,,,





did you ever tell your missus about these blind hitch hikers ?

[Mr E]

spike50 said:

that just missed the herald of free enterprise.

My grandfather genuinely did just miss the Herald. He was working that night on the Spirit and at sea when the news broke. All we knew was one of them had gone down and not which one. Was an uncomfortable couple of hours until we knew for sure.

Was an uncomfortable few weeks in Dover generally and in the Port in particular. Fortunately I was a bit too young to really appreciate it.

[chilistrucker]

spike50 said:

always loved the s a s one , met the full regiment on one trip , all driving for different firms .

bag house one yeah heard e few times , did you ever meet that kid from Birmingham who bought a lass out of one ?

Did Be drive a black scanny for that firm from the Midlands,late 90's early 00's???

Ha, ha, I did mean blond!!!
Obviously S my mrs knows I personally wouldn't pick up hitch hikers

[spike50]

yeah that's him , black scanny midlands,

their drivers also got involved in a bit of a tussle with the French port authorities in one of the strikes when a forklift fell (cough) off the quayside

[chilistrucker]

Was the firm called m&ms maybe???
Some honest/good ladss on there, I remember a chap called Dave, half an ear, good bloke, think he ended shacked up in Bordeaux with 1 of the waitress's from the cabbage patch
Some good times back then doing groupage to Spain and back

[JohnnyJones]

Haha yeah done that long haul and heard all that st!

[spike50]

Pinocchio spent a few years in le clinc due to having 2 books for the france tax , (fines the bar steward made up )

when he came out he got his bike back and his uniform and his old hunting ground , but like the Italians he was given 2 mates to keep him company .

I think like the ities it was thought with 3 of them you cant give enough for all the coffee for 3 that would be cheaper than the fine