Non-pilot speaking
Are you really serious that they tied a fire hose around the gear?? Any fire truck has ropes, surely?? And I'll call you Shirely until I hear for sure that they used a hose and not a rope.
I have lived in ZA, my nephew drives 738s and I have paxed at GRJ a dozen times AND paxed on Q400s in the UK but ... I still find this hard to believe!!