Originally Posted by
GWYN
On the subject of fire trucks, does anyone else remember the fire crew on the Isle of Man in probably 2003 or 2004, received a brand new, state of the art, fire truck? They then took it out for a drive down the runway, "just to see what it could do" turned at high speed and rolled it on the runway. The airport had to be closed for the rest of the day till the fire truck was recovered.
I remember something very similar to that happening in Guernsey in the early 2000's.