azza2u said..

Sparky said..
Back in the day, my Bombora trifin blew off the car, flew 20 foot through the air and smashed down to the Tarmac. It then rolled at least 20 times along the roughest bit of road then came to a rest against a tree.

No damage.

Same thing with an old Bombora X-IT where I was in such a rush to get to the beach I forgot to tie it on. First corner I got to it slid off the roof and after the fin snapped off it continued to slide down the road ending up with barely a scratch on it.

Same again with my Tiga 275. 110kmh on the way to a sailing holiday. Spent a morning with sandpaper to take the road rash off the bottom and used it for another 15 years - it got chucked out last year.

Loading my board into the car in the dark after a long session, I hit the rearview mirror and cracked the windscreen. That was two years ago. The cracks in the windscreen are gradually widening and spreading across the windscreen.
The board was OK...

Recent Napa fires, my bud lost 7 boards and at least 10 sails when the neighborhood caught fire last Sept. Most of the gear was newer than 2 years old.

Working on a film based out of Melbourne, accommodated by work in fancy serviced apartments that were on the corner of Elizabeth and Lonsdale St. They were built onto the top of Myers old offices. The drive in access was tricky it was up the old loading dock ramp to what had been the roof top receiving dock. You had to cross three lanes of on coming traffic and hit a remote button for a massive two story roller door to open at the right time to avoid being stuck waiting for it to lift with out being half way out on the main road-tricky! Well one Sunday after a trip down to Torquay about 9pm I got back to the Units. Stupedly I decided to tail gate the car in front heading in and up the steep ramp, there was a beam so if I was slow it would rise up again. Soooo zipped across the street as the door was dropping, got the nose of my beautiful HQ Kingswood wagon across the line and the door stopped paused and started to rise everything was going to be OK.....except for my mast a two piece north that had jammed up in to a one piece which I had forgotten. It hooked up on the bottom rail of the very big, very heavy, very old roller door. Everything stopped I could not go forward as it was bent like a banana, couldn't reverse as its was straight back on to Lonsdale St, and the ancient roller door motor door is whining like a pommy and starting to smoke. Next thing I can hear the chain sprockets starting to jump so I decided to floor it, the mast explodes like a jousting stick the roller door rips out of its track and drops like a ton of lead, just missed my prize possession car. The resulting disaster blocked the access no vehicles in none out. The repairs involved an over night $400 per hour crane and emergency Melbourne CBD road closures during the Monday morning rush hour, causing extensive traffic delays. The crew were due back on location at 6AM the next day. No one could get out so shooting was delayed by hours costing the production hundreds of thousands of dollers. Ive never been able to fully work outage true cost of the stuff up but Im guessing it would have been in the millions what with lost revenue for the hundreds delayed by the traffic chaos. I never owned up and was never busted for my mast and head snap.

peterowensbabs said..
Working on a film based out of Melbourne, accommodated by work in fancy serviced apartments that were on the corner of Elizabeth and Lonsdale St. They were built onto the top of Myers old offices. The drive in access was tricky it was up the old loading dock ramp to what had been the roof top receiving dock. You had to cross three lanes of on coming traffic and hit a remote button for a massive two story roller door to open at the right time to avoid being stuck waiting for it to lift with out being half way out on the main road-tricky! Well one Sunday after a trip down to Torquay about 9pm I got back to the Units. Stupedly I decided to tail gate the car in front heading in and up the steep ramp, there was a beam so if I was slow it would rise up again. Soooo zipped across the street as the door was dropping, got the nose of my beautiful HQ Kingswood wagon across the line and the door stopped paused and started to rise everything was going to be OK.....except for my mast a two piece north that had jammed up in to a one piece which I had forgotten. It hooked up on the bottom rail of the very big, very heavy, very old roller door. Everything stopped I could not go forward as it was bent like a banana, couldn't reverse as its was straight back on to Lonsdale St, and the ancient roller door motor door is whining like a pommy and starting to smoke. Next thing I can hear the chain sprockets starting to jump so I decided to floor it, the mast explodes like a jousting stick the roller door rips out of its track and drops like a ton of lead, just missed my prize possession car. The resulting disaster blocked the access no vehicles in none out. The repairs involved an over night $400 per hour crane and emergency Melbourne CBD road closures during the Monday morning rush hour, causing extensive traffic delays. The crew were due back on location at 6AM the next day. No one could get out so shooting was delayed by hours costing the production hundreds of thousands of dollers. Ive never been able to fully work outage true cost of the stuff up but Im guessing it would have been in the millions what with lost revenue for the hundreds delayed by the traffic chaos. I never owned up and was never busted for my mast and head snap.

if there was a prize, this one should win!
Embarrassment.

Peterowensbabs,
MAN THATS EPIC !!!
What a Monty!!!
Winner hands down.....

A friend of mine's van broke down while driving to Lake George from QLD. He arranged for a hired replacement van and was in the process of unpacking the van when the tow truck arrivef and drove over the nose of his new unused speed board.