:o 'Remember when we went to school?'  ;D
http://i.imgur.com/YGNJG0e.gif

Sorry, no context. Hope they are/were ok though.  :-/

[edit]Not what I call high quality media, but it's a video with some more info. http://www.rightthisminute.com/video/kids-survive-tumbling-out-moving-van[/edit]

They got up and walked away, so I guess they're okay. It's certainly not the way I would (and did not) drop my kids off at school. :o

Maybe it's a school for stuntmen. Who knows?  :o Guess we should check the airside. More seriously, they are well trained since the first moves seem to be to get off that street.

I've edited my OP since there was a site having a video on the event.

It's hard to tell if it is real or staged. Both "kids" did pretty good "landings" on the road, and then looked around for traffic BEFORE scurrying off the road. Then when the "mother" gets out of the car to go to the "kids", she looks kinda weird.

Maybe I'm just being too critical. :-/ :-[

I'd say that's some special forces platoon. A very small one though. Clever!  :o Nobody will raise suspicion (well, as long as you don't see them getting deployed). They are trained to infiltrate cities and things. Kindergartens first.

It wasn't me.

I grew up in the days when we had to walk to school.  :P
No-one was ever dropped off by car.

Cappy wrote on Oct 13^th, 2013 at 6:23am:

It wasn't me. I grew up in the days when we had to walk to school.  :P No-one was ever dropped off by car.

So did I.

Except for when we lived in the RAAF Base Tindal in the Northern Territory, we had to catch a bus to school in Katherine. 10 miles was a very long way to walk to school. Some kids lived so far away from the school that they "went to school on 2 way radios" (School of the Air). My parents wouldn't let me ride my bike to school either (I was only 11/12). I'm not really surprised though, at the time the Stuart Highway had cars that traveled at up to 100MPH, and those really long Road Trains were very scary vehicles to encounter on the road! ;D

I always rode my bike. It has never let me down.  8-)
http://i.imgur.com/bdrLrWs.jpg

Mark used to ride his next to one of these! 160 tonnes of swaying metal at 120km/h.  ;) ;)
Makes 18 wheelers look like Tonka Trucks. This has 80 wheels IIRC.

It's also how we deliver Jet A1 to the outback.  8-)
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4237/roadtrainaustraliatruck.jpg

We tend to make stupidly long trains here too.
http://youtu.be/9LsuNWjRaAo

I have to tackle these daily on my bike rides too Mark. They're ok until they're about two feet away.
You should know where I am...SAS are just up the road at "The Consulate"

That's pic looks like it was taken at the "Devils Marbles" NT, by the looks of it!

I was coming homer from school in the school bus, when a Road Train passed us and threw a rock (not a stone) at the windscreen! The bus driver put his hand in front of his face, but did not turn away, I dived onto the floor between my seat and the seat in front of me. The bus driver had the webbing between some of his fingers sliced through, and his hands were very bloody, he also had cuts in his face and head. So he saved us by maintaining control of the bus until he had pulled over to the side of the road. My friend, on the seat in front of me, was struck in the neck by the glass and was bleeding a lot. One girl got struck in her eye (and I mean her eyeball, not her eyelid) by the glass, but it was tiny and did not blind her in that eye. Other kids got cuts from the shattered windscreen as well, so it really was a bloody mess inside the bus. I only had bits of glass stuck in my hair and on my clothes. Phew! It was not a pleasant experience, but at least I was not hurt. The other two school buses from the RAAF Base stopped, and we were all transferred to them for the rest of the trip back to the base, including our driver. Our bus was left on the side of the road and was picked up by another driver later on. Glass was spread from the front of the bus all the way to the back. I couldn't believe that one windscreen had so much glass. It was unbelievable.

So was I afraid of those Road Trains? Yes. You betcha I was! I never wanted one of those things passing me when I was riding my bike on the the Stuart Highway. I did ride my bike on that road a lot, but if I saw a Road Train coming, I was off into the bushes quick smart!

Man, that train. Went you enter it, there's a chance that you've already arrived at the destination in a way. Never forget your gloves on the last waggon.

Yikes, that incident from Mark could have ended much worse. And all because the one force direction caused a wheel to snip a rock in a different one. Small things, bloody mess.  :-/

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Yikes, that incident from Mark could have ended much worse. And all because the one force direction caused a wheel to snip a rock in a different one. Small things, bloody mess.  :-/

The bus driver did what he had to do to save the bus and everyone on it. He's a hero.

The Stuart Highway was wide enough for two cars to remain on the bitumen when passing each other, but when a Road Train came, all other vehicles got off the road as far as possible, to leave it for the Road Train, but the last trailer was swaying left and right and would often go off the bitumen. They were notorious for throw stones and gravel (and the occasional rock) at other vehicles because of that. Imaging them passing each other going in opposite directions? S C A R Y ! :o

I think that's why they've ended up limiting them to four trailers these days and only fuel trucks, everyone else gets 200ft.

Remember the days of 5,6,7 trailers Mark?

The Stuart Highway is much nicer these days, I was up there last year.
Interesting is the 130km/h speed limit, although it's not policed as I went past in a Clubsport doing 170 and they waved.

CoolP wrote on Oct 16^th, 2013 at 5:53pm:

Man, that train. Went you enter it, there's a chance that you've already arrived at the destination in a way. Never forget your gloves on the last waggon.

They pull into Port Hedland doing 5mph.
I can confirm you can get out of the car and sit by the road and consume 8 cans of beer whilst waiting at the crossing.  :D :D :o

Cappy wrote on Oct 17^th, 2013 at 2:34am:

I think that's why they've ended up limiting them to four trailers these days and only fuel trucks, everyone else gets 200ft. Remember the days of 5,6,7 trailers Mark? The Stuart Highway is much nicer these days, I was up there last year. Interesting is the 130km/h speed limit, although it's not policed as I went past in a Clubsport doing 170 and they waved.

When I was up there (in 1970), my father said there was no speed limit on the Stuart Highway between Alice Springs and Darwin (except for the 35MPH limit in the towns). He also told me that the police would pull you over if they thought you, or your car, could not handle the speed you were driving. I don't know if that true or not. But it might be. Remember the "Canonball Run' they used to have up north (NT) in the 90's?

I missed my bus home one time deliberately, so I could go into Katherine and window shop. My mother worked in one of the shops on the main street, so I could get a lift home with her. So all was good.
My teacher saw me and asked what happened, so I just said I missed the bus. He says "I'll take you home. I've got to do some home tutoring in Tindal". I told him I would wait for my mum, but he said that was nonsense, he would take me. So I get in his car and he drives to Tindal at 100MPH! My father never drove faster than 60MPH, so the trip home was exciting for me.

I don't even remember seeing any police cars on the highway, only in the towns. :o

Markoz wrote on Oct 17^th, 2013 at 3:55am:

I don't even remember seeing any police cars on the highway, only in the towns. :o

Nowadays, they are smaller and hard to spot as it seems.  ;D But bright lights.
http://i.imgur.com/Niomoah.png

That's a cute police car! Is it a Smart Car?

Wait till it's grown to full size.  :o

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Is it a Smart Car?

You mean like a smart phone?

CoolP wrote on Oct 17^th, 2013 at 8:54pm:

Wait till it's grown to full size.  :o Quote: Is it a Smart Car? You mean like a smart phone?

LOL

No! As in the Make/Model of the car! Smart Car :P

As far as I know all the highways were unlimited until 2006.

And yeah I remember the Cannonball Run well, such a shame it ended the way it did.

That was one of the occasions where it was never going to end well, unfortunately for those involved.

parking enforcement = meter maid

Now I know someone who's been to the Gold Coast.  ;D

Meter maids.  :-*