The Worst Journey in the WorldAspley Cherry Garrard was the youngest member of the Scott Polar Expedition when he and two others lost their tent to the winds of a night-time snowstorm. They spent hours in temperatures below -70°F stumbling about the ice floes hoping they'd bump into it as it was their only hope of survival.
OK, so that was bad, but we reckon you've had worse. We know how hard you lot are.
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chthonic, Thu 7 Sep 2006, 12:40)
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Hole in the floorA few years ago, my lovely friend Clare (who lives in Derbyshire) went down to head office in North London for some Important Meeting or other. She's driving back up the M40, not really that awake, dawdling in the slow lane and following a lorry.
All of a sudden she sees a pair of legs dangling out of the bottom of the lorry, then disappearing again.
Aagh, she thinks, clearly I'm way too tired and am imagining things. Perhaps I should pull over at the next services. In the meantime she rubs her eyes, thinks "pull yourself together" and keeps going.
Two minutes later it happens again. Legs dangled out the bottom of the lorry, flap around for a few seconds, then disappear.
This is getting a bit silly, she thinks, I am definitely not imagining this.
A few minutes later it happens again. At this point she is sufficiently spooked that she calls the police. Police sound a bit sceptical but say, ok, well keep following the lorry, and let us know where it's going.
Over the next 20 miles it keeps on happening. Eventually the lorry pulls into the services. Clare follows and tells the police where she is. Five minutes later a squadron of panda cars turn up, lights blazing, and surround the lorry.
Turns out it was a people-trafficking lorry. One of the 'cargo' had died. The other 'passengers' were frantically trying to get rid of the evidence, not having twigged that a dead body in the middle of the M40 is likely to arouse suspicions. Except it wouldn't fit through the hole.
(, Wed 13 Sep 2006, 22:43, Reply)
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