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posted on March 16th, 2003 at 01:19 AM
-- W 'The Twilight Zone' W --
:o Share with us all that story that is etched into you memory for ever. :o
What was the scariest trip you have ever been on,
Axle deep in mud the middle of nowhere,
that near miss moment that could have spelled disaster,
an uncanny series of events that strengthened you belief in fate,
or tales pertaining to that one passenger from hell.
We all have that campfire story engrained into psyche. Share to us your storyfrom the Twilight Zone.
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posted on March 16th, 2003 at 02:21 AM
A Night To Remember.
I was young, 22, had a new job and was finally earning decent money for a change. I was in the small town of Emerald, Central Queensland and decided
to have a look around for a fun vehicle that might replace my interest in motorbikes mabey.
One Staurday I read an add in the C Q News that there was a Beach Buggy for sale and any resonable offer would be considered. I phoned the number and
arranged to meet the owner at his work that afternoon. It was a tyre repair shop and he seamed proud to be the king of four meatheads all sharing the
same brain. Not only was he was a moron but the buggy was an absolute heap. It probably would have taken another 3 grand on top of the 8 he wanted. It
was a darkblue Meyers manx but before it had been painted it had had a very hard life.
The electrics were shot, the smell of burning plastic was very strong, it ran rough and blew far too much blue smoke on start up, had a botched pan
that to me looked twisted and no papers. The only thing going for it was a good paint job and the high chrome Ford rims with new tyres right around.
The only electrics that worked was the wipers and the brake lights.
It was about three weeks later I was coming back into town. It was late evening and the sun had set about 20 minutes prior to my incident that would
remain my scariest moment even to this day. I was a partol officer for the local security company, then known as Wormald. I was commencing my first
round of checks and was working my way though an industrial area that consisted of a Cotton Gin, some Wheat Silos and a few storage units. I had just
returned from a housing estate out of town where some mining houses had to be checked over before dark.
I was traveling at about 40k's an hour in a 80 zone with the right hand spot light on the roof shining across a railway line to some cotton
modules off into the distance. Between them and me was the oncoming lane, a table drain, a row of young trees a fence and the train line. It was dark
with only some twilight off to my left on the horizon. The Suzuki Sierra could only manage a poor low beam and underbraking for the turn the lights
shone at the road. I checked for any oncoming cars and indicated while slowing down for the entrance. I had to turn right and my attention was divided
between what was ahead, the turn off and where my spot light was shining across the railway lines. Then in an instant as I switched the spot light off
and as I veared right into the driveway crossing the oncoming lane when I saw through the windscreen a sparkle of chrome in my headlights and a flash
of Blue. In confusion I lost control of the small four wheel drive and spunout when I hit the wide dirt driveway. With my feet hard on the brake I
stalled and could see through the windscreen in the darkness as I hit a fence the red glow of brake lights consealed buy dust. I could see what looked
like a vehicle spinning off into the distance. It was where the table drain would be which was about 4 foot deep and ran parallel to the train line. I
came to a stop not aware I rear ended the Suzuki into a fence and immeadiately froze in shock unable to move or speak. I remember my skin felt all
cold and mouth became dry and tasted foul. It was the most scared I had ever been in my life. As the event went over and over through my mind the
pieces fell into place what had just happened.
I didn't relaise until the driver and his vehicle had returned but the Manx I had seen weeks before had been coming towards me without any
lights. He must have been moving at a very high speed which would be anyones guess. To avoid me he swerved left to avoid my right turn across his
path. Of course I had no way of knowing the manx was there until I had turned right and the lights had shone directly at it coming towards me.
The driver, the man I met some weeks previously had launched the manx into the dark off the Cotton Gin driveway and landed down into the table drain
with his brakes also full on. He slid and spun for about the next 70 meters I guess ending back up onto the road. I so clearly remember the wailing of
his tyres as he spun back up onto the road and to a stop. I don't know how long had passed because I just sat there stunned and in a cold sweat.
I remember his motorwinding over for some time and then it started coming closer. I remember thinking I should grab my batten in case he is angery or
somthing but couldn't move a muscle.
While the rough idling Meyers Manx stopped beside me I remember the man getting out, coming up to my car and saying everything was ok, asking me if I
was ok and then before I had even got out of the car drove off. I hadn't said a word the whole time. He just left.
I think I sat there for about 20 minutes before I even bothered to think about what I was going to do next. When I though my legs could hold me I
checked the suzuki for any dammage and there was only three scratches and a tiny ding in the rear.
Even now I can see the spinning tail lights, the dust between them and me and the sound of howling tyres when he came to a stop back up on the road.
One hundredth of a second and it could have all been so different. I had a look the next morning an he was airborne for 13 steps or about 15 meters.
He didn't put the brakes on until after he landed and spun fully about three times and ending up facing the Cotton Gin I think.
That night afterwards I went for an extended coffee break. I didn't tell very many people and never went and saw him after the near miss.
Needless to say not a lot of securing got done the first part of that night and every time a see a Blue Meyers Manx now I wonder if that one was the
one.
[Edited on 15-3-2003 by The_Bronze.]
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posted on March 19th, 2003 at 11:57 PM
Don't know about the twilight zone, but had plenty of near misses.
Running late for work one morning, poring rain riding a big trail bike with nobbies, I started to get impatient in the peak hour freeway traffic, so
what do you do?? Ride up between the traffic of course. My problems started when I got a break in the traffic and accelerated to make up ground but
failed to notice all the cars ahead braking!!
Well I tell you nobbies don’t stop too well on a wet road. I managed to slow to maybe 40km/hr before I though it’s too late, got the bike sideways
and aimed for between the two cars stopped dead in front of me. I just felt the side of the Ute that was in front of me brush past me and it clipped
the rear guard of the bike and kept going. I was too scared to try and pull over, so continued on my way.
Talk about needing clean undies when I got to work!! I think I was still shaking an hour later.
Had plenty of near misses on the bike, and a few I wish had been.
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posted on March 21st, 2003 at 08:46 PM
Spooky Stuff
It was about 2am in the morning during Christmas holidays in 1981 and it was absolutely bucketing down as i headed out of Newcastle bound for Nelson
Bay in my blue 1971 Superbug.I had just gone over a small bridge on a 4 lane road and all of a sudden i did a 360 degree spin which seemed to take a
nanosecond and just kept going.Later when i realised what happened i got bad shock and drove at 30 mph all the rest of the way to Nelson Bay.It could
have been real ugly if i had been driving in the middle of the day.
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posted on March 22nd, 2003 at 08:15 PM
My 1961 Beetle stories x 2
[size=4]My Early VW days were spent in the small NSW town of Gloucester (Gloss- tar). As My Family lived around Newcastle, I used to do a lot of
driving... One Night I woke up and the Beetle was on the RH side of the road up against the guard rail... but wait there's more -- the Beetle was
still going --- and the guard rail left its two grooves in both front and rear Right Hand Guards.
The Next Story: The night I got engaged to My Wife to be in 1969 , I was driving the 1961 Red Beetle with the 2 black grooves still in the guards...
We were coming from Raymond Terrace , came over the Hexham Bridge and turned Left on the Pacific Highway , when suddenly without any warning- the Red
Beetle was on its roof in the middle of the highway... cars stopped and people came to check on Us... The edge of the roof was pushed over the top of
My door so I couldn't open it... anyway I asked the people to help tip it back onto its wheels... I started it and drove back to Gloucester ....
I cannot remember - but We Must have got out of the car to tip it back onto its wheels as We didn't have seat belts back then... so We were
probably sitting upside down !! on the hood lining.... (I was very sore for a few days) I kept driving the car like that for about 6 months -
getting in & out thru the passengers door... I then replaced the body.... [/size] :bounce:bounce:bounce
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posted on March 22nd, 2003 at 09:25 PM
Lee, I like that line in the first story
" One night I woke up and ......"
The 60's were good for you weren't they.
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posted on March 22nd, 2003 at 10:19 PM
Well, this one's not VW, but:
I was hitching down towards sydney this time, and it wasn't going well... I had been walking up this hill so long I was getting seriously
dehydrated. I'd sat down to contemplate hiking over to a farm I could see, when a white ute suddenly swerved off the tar and skidded towards me.
Fortunately, they managed to stop before they hit me, and offered me a lift. I was desperate, I accepted and climbed amongst the rubbish in the
tray. As we sped off down the road, a hand appeared out the passenger window holding a can of beer. I yelled thanks and downed it in about 10
seconds. Another appeared shortly and suffered the same fate. The addition of liquid to my body managed to outweigh the effect of alcohol on an
empty stomach, and I was starting to feel a lot better, when suddenly the car swerved hard onto a dirt road. It travelled a ways up this road then
turned up an even more disused looking track. By this point I was starting to think of the horror stories - like the hitchiker murders in that region
the previous summer!
When the car finally stopped in a remote little spot, the two guys in the front got out and I jumped down. One of them pulled a baggie out of his
pocket and explained they had stopped for a "smoke." I was a long-haired hippie type in those days (long gone,) so; I admit I joined them -
and I inhaled. They gave me another beer and said jump in the front.
We took off down the highway, drinking beer. They told me the story of how they had just been up north for a court-case, where the driver had lost
his licence... Around this point in time, the driver accelerated before pulling out to overtake a car and left the "pulling out" bit too
late - he hit it. It didn't stop him, though, he continued to overtake the truck and a couple of cars - clipping the last one as he pulled in.
This continued for a while: the passenger and I chatting, all of us drinking and smoking and the driver hitting more and more cars (and getting
quieter.)
We finally came to a town, where we pulled into a pub, had a few more beers, stocked up and hit the road (and other cars) again. When we came to the
next town, pulling into another pub, the driver managed to hit another parked car and the fence before stopping (dead smack in the middle of the
carpark. The passenger came over and explained to me (I had been back in the back after the last pub) that the driver was getting a little crazy (I
remember thinking he couldn't have got any more so than when I first met him,) and I should make my own way.
By this time, we had gotten off the main highway and I had no idea where I was, so I just started walking out of town to get away from these crazies.
I eventually came upon a forrest-type area that looked pretty safe, so I walked an appropriate distance through the trees and unrolled my swag. It
rained during the night, but my swag was an old-fashioned type, with a woollen blanket, so I was OK, then...
The rain had passed, and the moon was high when I was woken by gunshots. I swear I heard bullets hitting the leaves and trees nearby, as, you guessed
it, a white ute came swerving through the bush; floodlights lit on the rollbar, engine screaming, and people firing from the tray and windows!
You're probably wondering what I did then. I figured out pretty quick that the bullets landing near me weren't actually aimed at me (I
think they were so stoned they didn't actually know where the front of their car was,) so I just lay as flat as I could and hoped they'd go
the other way. Not a very heroic end to the story, but I'm alive to tell it.
The really strange thing is; when I walked back to the road and hitched a lift in the morning, I quizzed my ride, and we couldn't figure out what
town I'd been dropped in - it seems I wasn't in walking distance of any town...
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posted on March 23rd, 2003 at 09:21 AM
Whoa - thats a twilight story and a half.
I was coming back from buying my BMWK100 in Melbourne and when I got the the QLD/NSW border I decided to stop for a sleep as I hadn't had any in
many hours. I could have sworn I fell asleep in a carpark with a waterfall nearby. All these other people were arriving too to go see the waterfall. I
woke up an unknown time later with a building next to me and no waterfall to be seen. I was so confused.
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posted on March 23rd, 2003 at 11:31 AM
already posted on another part of the forum but here goes anyway.
this happened to me a few years ago on the way home from work.
it was a tuesday afternoon... my most hated day of the week, as i was heading home from work looking rather disreputable, as was my way at the time.
(think tweed suit, FAT paisley or tartan tie, big doc's with longer than sholder legnth way over bleached hair in one large mat at the back of my
neck)(no i don't look or dress like this anymore).
as i was nearing home i heard a vw coming down the road behind me and saw a car pull up beside me. on turning i saw a v.nice light grey 66/7 beetle
stopped next to me. as i looked the driver (a rather attractive young lady, made far more attractive by the fact she was driving a nice bug) held up a
beer, pointed to it and motioned me over.
need less to say i was questioning if i had died and not realized it. especialy as i was single at the time and had been for a fair while.
as i got to the car she opened the door held out the beer and said "can you open the for me please"
well i attempted (dismally in my stunned state) to make small talk for a minute or so, before she drove off happily swigging on her beer. leaveing me
standing stunned on the side of the road.
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posted on March 23rd, 2003 at 02:22 PM
If that was Elle McPherson driving the Beetle... You WERE dreaming... Ha Ha... Lee
Quote:
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posted by whatnow
this happened to me a few years ago on the way home from work.
it was a tuesday afternoon... my most hated day of the week, as i was heading home from work looking rather disreputable, as was my way at the time.
(think tweed suit, FAT paisley or tartan tie, big doc's with longer than sholder legnth way over bleached hair in one large mat at the back of my
neck)(no i don't look or dress like this anymore).
as i was nearing home i heard a vw coming down the road behind me and saw a car pull up beside me. on turning i saw a v.nice light grey 66/7 beetle
stopped next to me. as i looked the driver (a rather attractive young lady, made far more attractive by the fact she was driving a nice bug) held up a
beer, pointed to it and motioned me over.
need less to say i was questioning if i had died and not realized it. especialy as i was single at the time and had been for a fair while.
as i got to the car she opened the door held out the beer and said "can you open this Can for me please"
well i attempted (dismally in my stunned state) to make small talk for a minute or so, before she drove off happily swigging on her beer. leaveing me
standing stunned on the side of the road.
:thumb:bounce:bounce:bounce -- LEE
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posted on March 23rd, 2003 at 08:23 PM
I went for a drive with my brother...
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posted on March 23rd, 2003 at 10:39 PM
This happened to my sister......She had a type 3 wagon and lives near Maleny.
Going to work one morning coming down the Maleny range hill which is 10% incline, about 1km long and a turn at the bottom,going 90kph the rear drivers
wheel said to the car"I'm out of here"clean snapped the axle spline and took off down the hill passing her.She freaked out,hit the
brakes dropped onto the brake shoe back plate and 3 wheeled it sideways down hill into oncoming traffic some how made it to the bottom without hitting
anything.The wheel got to the bottom went up the cutting at the corner flew over 25m gum trees into a valley.I saw the car when it came on the
tilt-tray and could not beleive my eyes .Ground down 3/4 of the brake back plate and started chewing the suspension arm+shocker down as if it had been
put on a big belt sander.Mmmmm,lucky Sis.
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posted on March 24th, 2003 at 07:33 AM
Doesn't sound so scary now, but 1983 I decided to drive across to Perth to the Austin Healey National Rally in my Diahatsu 360 cab van (2-stroke)
this involved driving 18hrs a day at 80kmh & pulling over when too tired to drive anymore (usually 1am)climbing in the back & going to sleep,
it was a bit scary but the best was on the Nullabor, saw what looked like a road house pulled over & slept, next thing I remember is aircraft
engine noise-strange- pull the curtain & all I can see is two or three light aircraft- NEVER EVER have I woken up so quick, thought I had parked
on an airfield - but Nullabor Road House is where EVERYbody fills up, it freaked me out totally
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posted on March 24th, 2003 at 10:23 AM
I've had a few, so I'll list them off.
First incidident was about 18 years ago - I'd just got my p's. I was driving along Kissing Point Rd, Dundas, just after the James Ruse Drive
over pass. It is a 6 lane road, and I'd pulled away from the traffic lights, with the rest of the traffic. Being a p plater, I was 15 ms in front
of the traffic [I was doing the speed limit], when I saw man start to cross the road on my right, about 100m in front. The six lane road is divided in
the middle, so at that point I didn't lift off the throttle, as I thought he'd stop in the middle. He didn't. He was now 20m in front
of me, and stepped off the median strip, and kept on walking. I immediately started to slow and blew my horn, as he had ample time to run across - as
he would have heard to horn, and been alerted to the traffic. He wasn't. I remember skidding as he walking into the side of my car, putting his
elbow through my windscreen. He suffered a compound fracture of the ankle - and I suffered shock as I ran from house to house trying to get someone to
phone. Being young, I didn't know what to do. Witnesses said there was nothing I could do - that he just walked out in front of me. Which made me
feel a little better. I was later to find out that the gentleman was a psychiatric patient who had escaped the local facility, and basically
didn't know where he was. He recovered ok.
The second was driving through the Kiama bends about 15 years ago, about 06:00 in the morning. As I approached the crest of a hill, there was a truck
coming the other way. With about 100m to go between myself and the oncoming truck, a Ford ute [I can still remember it], pulled out and commenced to
overtake the truck and was coming straight at me. I had to think quick, and decided to hold my line and brake. Luckily I held my line, as the ute
drove past me on my left in the dirt, with the truck on my right. It then pulled back in, and continued to overtake the truck.
Third was driving back from the snow one year south of Canberra. A truck coming the other way decided to overtake another truck. At no stage did he
make any attempt to pull back in, and I basically had to pull off into the dirt as he continued to overtake. I can still see the smile on the p#$%ks
face as he drove past.
Third was four years ago. I was travelling around Australia, and had camped overnight [camper trailer] at a place called Shark Bay near Port Lincoln.
It was the day after Tropical Cyclone Vance had ripped apart Exmouth. We were woken at 02:00 as the Low Pressure System from Vance made its way across
the country. We tried to hold the camp together but decided at 06:00 that we best pack up and get out of there. As we struggled to fold our camp down,
we got on the road at 07:00. We'd been going for 30 mins with the winds whipping as we drove straight through what were still cyclone strength
winds that had kicked up a dust storm. We continued to drive through this for 3 hours until we made it to Ceduna - where we booked into a hotel and
layed low for 2 days - recovering from the ordeal.
I'm know of plenty more - the first two still sit quite strongly in the my mind. It just makes you so aware of what is going on in the traffic
around you. I never want to find myself in a position where I wasn't aware of what was going on, else you'd never have the presence of mind
to get yourself out of a situation.
Drive safely everyone. And let the idiots in traffic be idiots - just don't let them near you. Drop back if you have to, to let them get away
from you.
Squiz.....
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posted on March 25th, 2003 at 02:02 PM
Very very short story! Breaking Down on top of the Westgate Bridge, on a windy night, the night b4 my first day at my current job!!!! It scary shiat
up there!!!!
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posted on March 25th, 2003 at 10:13 PM
Sorry, Squizy; but that's pretty standard for WA driving. It's a common shight (no misspell - sound it out) to see a 4WD coming around a
bend on the wrong side of the road - damned yuppies don't realise the power-to-weight of the fanciest 4wd means they have bugger all
acceleration!
As for cyclones - you oughta see what a cat 5 can do... (A friend manages an aboriginal community that was hit by Chris - cowered under a bed
watching timbers spear his house.) All cleaned up now - and the place kinda needed a wash!
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posted on March 31st, 2003 at 09:39 PM
Awesome stories dubbers - thanks for sharing. It great reading everyones adventures - kinda makes me smile when stuff goes wrong for me.
My pop used to say that "it's not memorable unless it scares you."
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