what, do ya think i’m an idiot?
tommyI can just imagine:
“Sure, I can drive this. How hard can it be?”
Maybe you should at least check out the “quick start” page of the operator’s manual.
“Naw, I don’t need no instructions. I drove one last time it snowed in Tampa. Can’t be much different than that!”
Um… It last snowed in Tampa in 1977. They may have changed since then.
“Bah! A truck is a truck is a truck. Gimme the keys.”
And with that, former Fire Chief Pete Botto jackknifed a brand new tiller truck, causing almost $6,000 in damage to the city’s new $886,000 Fire Engine.
It is a special truck, called a tiller truck, with a rear end that can be steered separately from the front end.
“As far as I can tell in driving it, you used to be able to swing the old tillers out wide. These don’t swing out the way the others did,” Botto said Wednesday.
Ya don’t say… C’mon, Petey. How much could things change in only, uh, THIRTY YEARS?
Captain Bill Wade said:
the luncheon event Tuesday was set up to bring in retirees who drove tiller trucks years ago so they could offer pointers on how to drive the vehicle. Tampa has not had a tiller truck for more than 15 years.
Captain Bill Wade also said:
“They did not know the unique operations of this modern tiller truck.”
Ya think?
Well, what did we expect. This is Tampa Fire Rescue, home of the good ol’ boys network of Tampa town rednecks.
Botto said that he might have jumped the gun in hopping into the cab and taking off during the ceremony for the truck’s debut, negotiating a wide-open training course the size of two football fields.
“We were just so gung-ho to get out there and drive it.”
You know the type. Those guys who think they can do it themselves, with or without a clue. Home Depot stays in business because of their five trips to fix a leaky toilet.
So we spend $886,000 on a new parade float, and your taxes will pay for another $6,000 in repairs before this thing sees its first strip show.
Yahoo!
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March 6th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
This time the ass was driving the front end.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
You can’t make up how funny this story is. I guess afterward these codgers broke into the chief’s office to watch a “stag film” and got stymied when they couldn’t figure out how to stick a tape in the Tivo!