True Story or Urban Myth!

[Fekason]

One of my brothers is a trick cyclist in Brisbane, and he related this story to me.

It was a dark and stormy night. A man was driving home in the area around Goodna. As only happens on such occasions, he got a flat. In the rain, he got out and huddied through with the wheel change. Off he drove, but after a few kilometres on a dark back road passing the Goodna Mental Hospital (or whatever they call it), the wheel came off.

HE hopped out into the unpleasant weather again. He managed to find the wheel, but not he wheel nuts. As he was searching and cursing to himself, this soft voice came out of the dark (on the other side of the fence):

What's the matter mate?"

"My wheel has fallen off, and I can't find the wheel nuts."

"I can help you."

"Oh yeah, I can't, but you as a patient in there can."

"Why don't you take one nut off each of the other three wheels, and use that to hold the wheel until you can get to a service station and get more?"

Our "hero" was dumbfounded that he hadn't thought of that. "That's smart, he said. How come you are in there then?"

"I am be mad, but I'm not stupid." replied the voice.

[Jesk]

sounds quite plausible except for having an inmate of a mental hospital out wandering the grounds at night, cos ive been locked up once for that sorta thing and they wouldn't allow that

[HDT_aero]

lol itll work fine ive driven around with two nuts on a wheel

[Freddy Kruger]

lol ive been in a car with a nut behind the wheel...

[rattattack1313]

we probably have all been in a car with a loose nut behind the wheel....lol....( just adding onto your line, Freddy !!)......

[Bax]

It'd work but I wouldn't want to do it for too long. And I wouldn't wanna go over 40 with it.

Kinda dangerous having all that stress on the other nuts. You'll end up with another wheel flying off through the guard and down the street.

[Patrio7]

i got lucky with my mates vp, he was around saying g'day and the usual catching up then has he made to drive off i noticed that one of the black plastic wheel nut caps were half out hmm i thought and went to gently kick it back in *donk* didnt budge. strange, so i got him to kill the engine and had a closer look. turned out when he had his front suspension done they only tightened up two of five nuts on both the front wheels. not bad considering he did about 50km's to get to my place. out with the wheel brace and it was all good. im thankful that im picky about details now and then

[newo]

Yeah not bad, but on the lines of Urban legends/true stories...

My sister told me this one, whoch was told to her by the friend of ther boyfriends brother who's mother witnessed it firsthand.

Anyway, story goes like this. This lady was sitting in a tarin, and in the back corner of the train were sitting three people, wearing goth type clothes, so apparently they were goths (not sure if there is a politically correct way to say that). Anyway, in the middle was a person leaning forward, held up by the people either side of her with a chain type thing around her neck.

So the train pulls up into the next station, and on gets the police. They say to this lady "I think your ticket has expired. Can you please get off?" The lady, adamant that her ticket was still valid, said this to the police. Again, they told her to get off. So she did, confused, and in went three police with pepper spray to take them down.

Supposedly, the woman found out, the girl in the middle had been choked to death apparently by the other two. Don't know how the police found out, but they did. And yeah, that's my story.

[DJ Majah]

"My sister told me this one, whoch was told to her by the friend of ther boyfriends brother who's mother witnessed it firsthand."

lol, typical

[Doctor Bob]

i think your sister may know someone who is related to the guy i know who was told by his postie that he knows someone who saw his dad talking to someone who was on the phone to his wife who once walked past a police station & heard a policewoman talking to the sargeant about getting a delivery of Cop Chips for thier Commodores from the dude on ebay that gets huge power increases & amazing economy improvements....

Rob

[newo]

Actually, I think she did...