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johnny g

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That reminds me, when I were a lad, and the Dartford tunnel approach road was just a 4 lane dually a friend and I were playing under the last bridge, what is now the University Way junction, but was just a simple concrete bridge then with slopes to the underside and a big drainage ditch.

So we found a car tyre and rolled it down the slope.

It missed the ditch we thought it would roll into and went over the tarmac cyclepath to a raised sloped kerb, it bounced up that and onto the main northbound carriage way. Many cars swerved and beeped. It continued to the central reservation where there was another canted kerbstone to a raised strip, it barely made it up the kerb and with a sigh of relief we thought it would fall over on the central reservation.

It seemed tyres carry far more momentum then our young brains could account for, it slowly rolled down the other side and carried on across the southbound side. I think the road must have been falling for it to continue. More beeping, tyre squealing and swerving before it finally fell over on the far side.

We made good with our legs before the rozzers arrived.

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That reminds me, when I were a lad, and the Dartford tunnel approach road was just a 4 lane dually a friend and I were playing under the last bridge, what is now the University Way junction, but was just a simple concrete bridge then with slopes to the underside and a big drainage ditch.

So we found a car tyre and rolled it down the slope.

It missed the ditch we thought it would roll into and went over the tarmac cyclepath to a raised sloped kerb, it bounced up that and onto the main northbound carriage way. Many cars swerved and beeped. It continued to the central reservation where there was another canted kerbstone to a raised strip, it barely made it up the kerb and with a sigh of relief we thought it would fall over on the central reservation.

It seemed tyres carry far more momentum then our young brains could account for, it slowly rolled down the other side and carried on across the southbound side. I think the road must have been falling for it to continue. More beeping, tyre squealing and swerving before it finally fell over on the far side.

We made good with our legs before the rozzers arrived.

 

You sir are a credit to the community..!!

 

Although I would never post up some of the stupid/dangerous things I have done as a youth..!!

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That reminds me, when I were a lad, and the Dartford tunnel approach road was just a 4 lane dually a friend and I were playing under the last bridge, what is now the University Way junction, but was just a simple concrete bridge then with slopes to the underside and a big drainage ditch.

So we found a car tyre and rolled it down the slope.

It missed the ditch we thought it would roll into and went over the tarmac cyclepath to a raised sloped kerb, it bounced up that and onto the main northbound carriage way. Many cars swerved and beeped. It continued to the central reservation where there was another canted kerbstone to a raised strip, it barely made it up the kerb and with a sigh of relief we thought it would fall over on the central reservation.

It seemed tyres carry far more momentum then our young brains could account for, it slowly rolled down the other side and carried on across the southbound side. I think the road must have been falling for it to continue. More beeping, tyre squealing and swerving before it finally fell over on the far side.

We made good with our legs before the rozzers arrived.

 

That is "purely fictional" and for comedy value only? Correct? ;)

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