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Title: A twist on fording
Post by: thermidorthelobster on December 13, 2005, 21:54:02
I was reading a book about the Indian monsoon recently, and read about a great trick:

There's a road in a city (might have been Bombay, can't remember for sure) where there's a straight level road with a big dip in it.  The dip fills up with water to quite a deep level.

So the local kids get together, and build a pile of bricks in the middle of it.  One of them stands on the bricks and waits for a car to come along...

...and the driver thinks, that can't be too deep, the kid's standing in it OK...

And when the driver's up to his bonnet in the water, the kids tow his car out, for a fee  :lol:

The book's called Chasing the Monsoon, by Alexander Frater.
Title: A twist on fording
Post by: TUFFTEE on December 13, 2005, 22:26:21
Somehow i don't think that would work here? :roll:
Title: A twist on fording
Post by: beast5680 on December 13, 2005, 22:27:03
be funny if they tried that with your 101 :lol:  they have to be picked up from the next village after riding the bow wave :lol:
Title: A twist on fording
Post by: the loon on December 13, 2005, 22:53:37
Quote from: "beast5680"
be funny if they tried that with your 101 :lol:  they have to be picked up from the next village after riding the bow wave :lol:


you'll get all the surfers as well  :D
Title: A twist on fording
Post by: thermidorthelobster on December 13, 2005, 23:40:08
Yeah, but it'd take me a bucket full of WD40 to get everything working again!  I'm just getting used to fording in a V8 after years of charging through with gay abandon in diesels.
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