Re: Melbourne's Icons (was Melbourne's Anti-tram Lord Mayor)

[Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au>]

David McLoughlin wrote:

> When I lived in Wellington, an Australian woman who'd just moved there
> told me one day that her spring-operated bus had run out of power on her
> way to work that morning, and the driver had got out, gone round to the
> back of the bus and wound it back up again.
> 
> On further inquiry I elicited the fact she had been on a trolleybus (a
> vehicle she had never seen before; well, she *was* from Sydney) and that
> the poles had come off the wires... the "winding" noise she heard from
> the back of the bus was the driver resetting the retrievers. But it was
> hard to explain it to her.
> 
> I kid you not.
> 
> David McLoughlin
> Auckland New Zealand

Reminds me of a crap-artist of a boss I once had when I was younger and more
naive.  He used to tell all sorts of stories about thing like his treks through
the Antarctic and how he had a gun so powerful it blasted a hole in the wall of
the Russell Street police station when he took it in for registration etc etc. 
I never knew enough about any of his topics to disprove him - that is until one
day he told the story about how he used to drive nuclear-powered trains across
the nullarbor.