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Old 24th Jan 2006, 19:23
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Blodwyn Pig
 
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i seem to recall a rather unfortunate incident involving the army and a puma back in the 80's.
the army were having a big fight at the battle area up the road, troops were getting ferried in on choppers, chap in charge of the troops had fallen asleep. he woke up as the chopper slowed down, and flared to the hover, shouted "after me men", and jumped out....not realising the chopper was still quite high up! he didn't survive the fall.
the aircraft involved was at honington for a few days under quarrantine, whilst they investigated.

we have a chap in work who used his foot to try and stop a rolling tristar once, i dont think the aircraft noticed, and he was off work for quite a while with a lot of broken bits in his foot!
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