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17-02-2010, 04:46 PM | #1 | ||
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17-02-2010, 04:50 PM | #2 | ||
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Just saw that on news.com.au. Insane
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17-02-2010, 04:58 PM | #3 | ||
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Mmmm good idea to pull off the road and do a U-turn instead of sitting in the middle of a highway waiting to get hit.
Lucky the trucky knew how to handle his rig.
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17-02-2010, 04:58 PM | #4 | ||
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Should read "Truckie misses out on becoming national hero"
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17-02-2010, 05:00 PM | #5 | ||
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Truckie with serious skill.
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17-02-2010, 05:07 PM | #6 | |||
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17-02-2010, 05:13 PM | #7 | |||
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17-02-2010, 05:47 PM | #8 | |||
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17-02-2010, 05:48 PM | #9 | ||
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I'm surprised the truckie got recognised as being a "good driver". Usually the truck drivers are responsible for global warming and clubbing baby seals in the eyes of the media.
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17-02-2010, 05:49 PM | #10 | ||
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Video does not show whether he was crossing double white lines does it?
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17-02-2010, 05:52 PM | #11 | ||
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But what you're not seeing was that Tony Abbott was stopped there for quite a while and a lot of cars
were filing through on his left, the truck driver didn't see him and nearly did us all a favor... |
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17-02-2010, 05:56 PM | #12 | |||
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17-02-2010, 05:59 PM | #13 | |||
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Oh, so now it's "cool" if someone dies on the roads is it?
Just because you don't like/agree with the man doesn't make some of the above comments right.
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17-02-2010, 06:03 PM | #14 | |||
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17-02-2010, 06:03 PM | #15 | |||
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umm... no! the mini bus pulled out in front of the truck!! if it was the truck driver at fault, it would be all over the media, make no mistake! |
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17-02-2010, 06:09 PM | #16 | |||
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Oh wait here's one for ya kezzer..lucky he wasn't driving a SIDI commo's or he would have been mince meet!
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If he had of been driving a SIDI commo this wouldn't have happened at all, he'd still be on his way. :
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17-02-2010, 06:13 PM | #19 | |||
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Indeed the truck driver was blinded to the existence of the Commonwealth car by the minibus. A very dangerous situation. Ironically, thats why Abbott was there.
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17-02-2010, 06:19 PM | #22 | ||
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the clip loads up faster on the youtube boys an girls, apparently the mini bus was behind abott then pulled out in front of the truck to go around abott, lucky the trucker was on the ball. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7pa82PUc9w
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17-02-2010, 06:24 PM | #24 | ||
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Wouldn't Tony Abbott be a passenger in the car? So I'm not sure how this is his problem? He's a federal politician, Opposition leader so he will have a driver assigned to him. Maybe you guys need to blame the driver.
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17-02-2010, 06:25 PM | #25 | ||
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Lucky no one was hurt.
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Yeah still trying to work out why you bought the FG, when according to you the Commo is soooo much better.
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17-02-2010, 06:38 PM | #30 | |||
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