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Splat! Anyone for melon puree?
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One council takes a fresh approach to promoting road safety Are children these days particularly stupid? Anyone with the slightest amount of brain power can work out that a truck is a big vehicle and therefore could cause a lot of damage to anything that it comes into contact with.
But pupils at one school in the Midlands are obviously not the brightest buttons in the world, because they were given a demonstration of how dangerous trucks can be -to melons.
Sainsbury's truck drivers showed the kids how to make melon puree with a 44-tonner by running them over at various speeds.
While this may all seem a little frivolous, we understand the message the Staffordshire County Councils Truck Safety programme was trying to get across. The kids were shown that truck drivers could not always see pedestrians because of the blind spots and the melons were used to demonstrate just how much damage a truck could do even at low speed if it were to hit a small child, Truck drivers are always trying to Make sure their load is safe from theft, but rarely will they worry about a small animal being added to the delivery.
However, a driver delivering toilet paper to Tosco in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, discovered a two-to three-week old piglet in his consignment.
The RSPCA is now caring for the piglet. who has been named Andrex and suffered cuts and bruises during his ordeal. It is believed his presence on the truck might have been a deliberate prank.
Former Liverpool FC defender and Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen was the after-dinner speaker at the recent Freight Transport Association dinner, spurring FTA president Andrew Haines to compare football and transport.
While we agree that most people think they are experts on football and most people think they know best when it comes to transport, we are not quite sure why the government needs to understand the offside rule and question whether having the safety cameras set to the right speeds will make this country great again.