Another Angry WomanAbsolute scenes on my road today as a lorry fucked up a turn and has got itself wedged across the road like that ship in the suez canal
A very bossy lady has appeared and taken it on herself to redirect traffic. Standing in the road waving cars up side streets.
The lorry appears to have hurt itself in wedging itself along the full width of the road. Bossy lady is simultaneously directing traffic and trying to guide it into some sort of less silly position.
A man has now turned up to gesticulate at the lorry in some sort of attempt to signal that it should maybe try to move from out of the middle of the road.
A tiny success of sorts! The lorry has crawled into a position where it is only blocking one lane. However, it is very, very sick and will need to be rescued. I am excited to see what sort of lorry turns up to rescue a poorly lorry.
Hugo Mills@stavvers A cousin of mine once had one of those. It was ginormous.
You know when they're doing works on motorways, there's signs that say "broken down? wait for recovery". He had the contract to do that for a large swathe of southern England, because he owned about the only thing in the region capable of towing an 18-wheeler at the time.
@darkling oooh so we might be in for the long haul on this, magnificent
@stavvers It's certainly "specialist equipment", but Richard's thing was decades ago. There's probably more choice these days.