We have a exercise on Friday. It should be fun. It will be a combined response from RT1, RT10, RT11 and RT14. Taskforce 2 and St Johns will be there as well. It is the second exercise under CCC and it has been well planned. Thanks to Steve it should be a great night. Will update after the exercise.
KILO
Monday, March 26, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Court Today
When you say to people that you are going to court, people always think that you have done something wrong.
Well, I was a witness to a car accident. The guy did not turn up to court so a warrant has been issued for his arrest and i will have to go back at a later date if he does not plead guilty. I enjoyed the day off work.
KILO
Well, I was a witness to a car accident. The guy did not turn up to court so a warrant has been issued for his arrest and i will have to go back at a later date if he does not plead guilty. I enjoyed the day off work.
KILO
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Ruapehu Lahar
It has finally happened. The crater lake dam has burst and we have had the lahar that they have been talking about for a long time. There is a little bit more info at www.nzrt.org . Two of the RT's have been put on standby but it looks like the lahar stayed in the river flow. I am waiting for the news to see what they have to say.
KILO
KILO
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Good Start, Bad Finish
Well I was having a good day at about 8 o'clock this morning, and at 11am but around 12.00 it all went to sh*t. It was sort of my fault. I was doing my run and had do to a delivery into a pub. The pub was on the opposite side of the road. So I parked my truck in a bus stop. Yip I should not have done that, but you got to do what you got to do. As I was getting the stock out of the side door of my truck I turned around to have this guy right in my face shouting at me,
"Do you know it is illegal to park in a bus stop, as it says in the road code".
First I said to myself, this guy is a bit simple. He sounded simple and I know I should not judge people on how they sound but when he is in your face you have to make a quick first impression. I scanned him up and down as fast as I could while he still goes on about parking in a bus stop and I notice that he had a Logo of one of the bus company's on his hat. I looked behind the truck to see that he was a driver coming onto shift with the bus company car parked behind me. I had left plenty of room behind me so if a bus did turn up it could park and do it's thing. So he is in my face going off and said back,
"Well if you guys stopped parking in our loading zones we would not have to park in your bus stops".
Being a smart bugger did not work and made him more mad. He is still shouting at about parking in a bus stop. In a break while he was taking a breath I got in with, (and I did this in a quite but stern voice)
"If you stopped shouting at me and treated me with a little bit more respect I might listen to you and move my truck". His answer was,
"I AM NOT SHOUTING AT YOU, do you know it is illegal to park in a bus stop" Then I tried the next thing,
"Will you F*ck off".
At this point in time I think I did the wrong thing but I was getting really angry with this guy as he was in my face and I was just trying to do my job. Then we had a weird moment where we both were standing in each other faces as I said,
"Have you finished" and his reply was,
"Are you going to move".
We did this about ten times. People were looking at us and staring at us. I was just about ready to blow and getting so angry I said,
" Look mate, if you don't get the f*ck out of my face you will regret it".
That was the wrong thing to say, was it not. Then it was on. This guy starts shouting,
"You threaten me, come on hit me, come hit me."
I then see the bus pull up behind this guys car. There room for my truck, this guys car and a bus to fit in this bus stop. He is trying to make me hit him, people are getting off the bus and I am so angry. It was wrong for me to say it, I know, but I would not have gone through with it. I was just trying to get him out of my face so I could go and do my job. I turned around and put the stuff back in my truck, got in the cab and got out of there.
I was so angry that I was shaking. I hate being this angry and it affects me so much. It happened around 12pm and it is 9 pm and I am still getting to me. I keep thinking on what I should have said and how I should have dealt with it. I am a nice person and I rarely defend myself. But when I do defend myself it all goes wrong. When I try to stick up for myself I am always the one that backs down. I know I should not worry about winning or losing but when you are the one that backs down all your life you would just like, for once, to win one.
"Do you know it is illegal to park in a bus stop, as it says in the road code".
First I said to myself, this guy is a bit simple. He sounded simple and I know I should not judge people on how they sound but when he is in your face you have to make a quick first impression. I scanned him up and down as fast as I could while he still goes on about parking in a bus stop and I notice that he had a Logo of one of the bus company's on his hat. I looked behind the truck to see that he was a driver coming onto shift with the bus company car parked behind me. I had left plenty of room behind me so if a bus did turn up it could park and do it's thing. So he is in my face going off and said back,
"Well if you guys stopped parking in our loading zones we would not have to park in your bus stops".
Being a smart bugger did not work and made him more mad. He is still shouting at about parking in a bus stop. In a break while he was taking a breath I got in with, (and I did this in a quite but stern voice)
"If you stopped shouting at me and treated me with a little bit more respect I might listen to you and move my truck". His answer was,
"I AM NOT SHOUTING AT YOU, do you know it is illegal to park in a bus stop" Then I tried the next thing,
"Will you F*ck off".
At this point in time I think I did the wrong thing but I was getting really angry with this guy as he was in my face and I was just trying to do my job. Then we had a weird moment where we both were standing in each other faces as I said,
"Have you finished" and his reply was,
"Are you going to move".
We did this about ten times. People were looking at us and staring at us. I was just about ready to blow and getting so angry I said,
" Look mate, if you don't get the f*ck out of my face you will regret it".
That was the wrong thing to say, was it not. Then it was on. This guy starts shouting,
"You threaten me, come on hit me, come hit me."
I then see the bus pull up behind this guys car. There room for my truck, this guys car and a bus to fit in this bus stop. He is trying to make me hit him, people are getting off the bus and I am so angry. It was wrong for me to say it, I know, but I would not have gone through with it. I was just trying to get him out of my face so I could go and do my job. I turned around and put the stuff back in my truck, got in the cab and got out of there.
I was so angry that I was shaking. I hate being this angry and it affects me so much. It happened around 12pm and it is 9 pm and I am still getting to me. I keep thinking on what I should have said and how I should have dealt with it. I am a nice person and I rarely defend myself. But when I do defend myself it all goes wrong. When I try to stick up for myself I am always the one that backs down. I know I should not worry about winning or losing but when you are the one that backs down all your life you would just like, for once, to win one.
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