Poor Bastard Christopher:

I've got a little yarn that would make most ute owners sympathize...

While I was in my final year at school in Warwick, it was tradition to go to the Warwick rodeo and get absolutley hammered and just act like a general mad bastard all weekend. Well one of my mates decided to bring his mint condition 96 model longreach (five poster bullbar, whitewhip, big subwoofers, and 20,000 k's on the clock) all the way from Wondoan (I think that's how you spell it) to Warwick so we could use it to carry all our gear and swags, eskys, etc for the weekend and of course cut some hoops. Everything was going great on the Thursday night, on the Friday the owner of the ute, myself and a few sheilas went to the movies while a mate of ours went crusing to the local girls boarding school to crack laps and pick up chicks. Well that was all well and good until they decided to come back to town and return the ute. Coming through a major intersection, our friend didn't see a brand new silver AU falcon with a whole family in it coming through the intersection. Only the passenger was paying attention, cause he yanked the wheel to try and miss the falcon, but they still hit. They hit in the nose and rebounded to hit the bum in each, completly missing the passenger cells. Pretty bloody lucky I reckon. But the drama doesn't end there. We got the phone call and made it there before the cops did and had to stop the owner from killing the driver. After the damage was assesed, it was determined that the bull bar saved the whole lot of them cause it absorbed most of the shock in the inital crash etc...

The driver of the ute was full of promises to pay up for the damage, but after getting some legal advice, he found out that he didn't have to pay for a bloody thing and dogged us all and left our mate with a buggered ute and about 15 grand in the hole. Not happy jan he was. it was a bit harsh considering he was at boarding school and had to pay for it himself.

Well we nursed the ute to the showground and all went and got right royally pissed to drown our sorrows at the rodeo. None of us will ever forget to watch out for bloody silver AU falcons and learnt a bloody important lesson:
IF YOU AREN'T INSURED FOR OTHER DRIVERS, DON'T LET ANYBODY DRIVE YOUR UTE BUT YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christopher Murray.