Ah Cannae Tell a Lie by Harry Morris

Author:Harry Morris
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781845025724
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Published: 2012-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

PART FIVE

Motorbiking

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Whilst at Tulliallan Police College I met a colleague from Edinburgh, who told me a story about the time he was asked to perform the duty of a police motorcyclist at the Royal Highland Show.

Although he hadn’t attended a motorcycle course, he held a licence to ride one, and as they were very short of motorcyclists for this event, they assigned him for the week.

His duty was to patrol the Newbridge roundabout at the end of the M8 and M9 motorways and monitor the traffic.

In order to perform this duty, he was given a brand new Norton Commando, a wonderful machine that could fairly shift.

After a few hours of patrolling up and down his motorway area, he was instructed to return to the Highland Show for his lunch break, during which, with it being a very hot sunny day, he decided to have a walk round the area.

On returning to his motorcycle, he received a call to assist another officer at a road accident on the round-about.

With his confidence high, having spent the last three hours riding up and down the motorway on his Norton Commando, he mounted his bike and roared off across the grassy showground with blue lights flashing and siren blaring, as he headed for the exit gate next to the agricultural testing station.

However, as he did so, he was unaware of the metal bar strung across between two poles, placed there to prevent vehicular traffic or the public from entering illegally.

At the last minute, he saw the pole and braked hard, but the bike failed to respond and slid along the grass surface.

Unfortunately for him, he struck the metal pole and was immediately thrown off his bike, but his speeding motorcycle continued on its merry way and collided through the front of a glass greenhouse full of tomato plants and continued to travel along the entire length of it, coming to rest at the opposite end, when it smashed through the glass at the rear.

As a result of the accident, he was conveyed to hospital where it was diagnosed that he had sustained three broken ribs.

However, that was nothing in comparison to the 120 or so trial tomato plants that his runaway bike had destroyed along the way.

He still looks back on this incident and can’t fathom why all his applications to join the motorcycle section on a permanent basis were returned to him … Application rejected!

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