Re: Hobos?

[Dave McL <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz>]

Eric Brown (jnr) Formerly Someone Else wrote:
> 
> Has anybody ever caught a freight train hobo style in sydney or anywhere
> else for that matter?

Not a freight train but when I was a kid in Melbourne I used to stow
away on the suburban trains for the ride.

Got caught once by the inspectors during school hours riding back from
Flinders Street to Box Hill in a Tait. I had the door open going through
the rail yards and that was the inspector's first problem. Then he asked
for my ticket.  About 1971. Got into terrible trouble. I was with a guy
from my school (Koonung High) and he got into a lot of trouble too as he
had no ticket or excuse for not being at school either.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand

Flight engineer: I don’t like this.
Captain: We’re 26 miles north, I’ll have to climb out of this.
GPWS: Whoop whoop! Pull up! Pull up!
Captain: Go round power, please.
Flight engineer: Five hundred feet.
GPWS: Whoop whoop! Pull up! Pull up!
Flight engineer: Four hundred.
GPWS: Whoop whoop------
End of tape.
-- The last moments of Air New Zealand flight TE 901 and its 257
passengers and crew, Mt Erebus, Antarctica, November 28 1979. Twenty
years ago next Sunday.