oh..
..it doesn't stop there.

He once got me a puch maxi 50cc moped (I was 8 remember). It was, to his credit, excellent fun.

....until, he one day made a ramp for us.

It was at least shoulder high to an average sized adult.

Of course, being 8 years old, meant that none of us had any fear (yet).

A kid from next door came over and was convinced to go up the ramp as fast as the Puch would carry him (i.e. not very).

Cue a belly flop of a landing and one completely uncontrollable puch maxi - followed by a Puch Maxi shaped hole in the back fence and one 8 year old kid laying on the floor on the other side of the fence unable to speak a word of English due to an excessive winding!

There are many other instances too; like the time he helped us make a bomb and blew the (cast iron) gates to shreds! But that's for another QOTW surely?
(dchurch bah, Tue 12 Aug 2008, 11:33, Reply)