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Welcome to the latest addition to CM, a sideways look at the road transport industry on telly, radio, papers and even t’interweb It’s been a thin week for trucks on the telly this week, but never mind, that is what they invented the internet for.
Who cannot fail to find joy in this beauty plucked from Chinese website Bru Direct? “A lorry driver sparked a 100 mile2 blackout in China when he ploughed into a massive electricity pylon. The 200ft pylon was left teetering at 45 degrees after Sing Lu, 35, smashed his truck into it in Tianjin, northern China. He later admitted to police officers that he had been trying to send a text message on his mobile phone at the time of the accident.”
CV Burp has realised that China clearly isn’t a safe place to be a trucker. It might have seen 9.8% growth in GDP in the last quarter of 2010 but, according to the Daily Mail online, four lorry drivers were “lucky to be alive” after an overpass ramp collapsed in Shangyu, east China.To be fair to the Daily Mail hyperbole machine, if you were driving one of four coal tippers on a slip road at 3am and it collapsed 23 feet onto the road below, you would be quite happy to be taken to hospital suffering from only minor injuries.
Moving away from China, it’s reassuring to know that the world of trucking is just as perverse up in Scotland. They might not have tippers falling off the Tay Bridge (yet), but they do have a 38-year-old man who likes showing his penis to truck drivers. David Gray (we bet his mum is proud) admitted to getting a “buzz” by, according to the BBC website, “parking beside the A9 late at night, leaping out of his pick-up, and flashing to passing vehicles”.
Prosecutor Gillian Taylor said that when Gray was arrested (and subsequently found guilty of three charges of indecent exposure) he was spotted by a lorry driver who saw the accused completely naked and, er, masturbating. The driver did not stop (well, it would take a certain someone), but called the police.
What astounds CV Burp the most about this story is that some of Gray’s flashing incidents took place in the winter, in Scotland. That really is indecent.