Deskbound says: Camping! Hiking! Other stuff that's not indoors! Regale us with your tales of the great outdoors, whether it involves being rogerred by the Scout Master or skinning your first rabbit.
(, Thu 29 Mar 2012, 14:49)
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The start, finish and division break were in the cleared land either side of a multi-kilovolt power line.
I set up near the edge of the clearing along with most of the rest of the crowd and never gave the power line a second thought.
Darkness fell. A car load of blokes arrived and started to set up a big tent about ten yards from mine. After a few minutes there were cries of dismay coming from over there. I thought they'd pitched on an ant nest. The half erected tent was pulled down quickly and dragged to the side.
Sparks were coming off the tent poles.
(, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 12:51, 5 replies)
All in the interest of actuality and maybe it reads better that way. It didn't actually happen to me, but I saw it happen about ten yards away.
(, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 13:16, closed)
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