vc commodore
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On Brisbane's Gateway bridge in 2002, there was still a basket that you threw the coins in.
I remember it well because I had a habit of throwing the coins in and letting the vehicle roll until the boom came up, but one particular day in 2002 I forgot I had pipe on the ute racks and of course when the boom came up it was between the bonnet and the pipe so it got caught under the pipe, and I propped.
Well all hell broke loose with old mate behind on the horn and old mate in the booth going into complete panic mode.
So I started to reverse which panicked old mate behind me to the point he and the bloke behind him were both now on the horn
with the booth operator jumping out to try and stop more traffic piling up, so I kept reversing with horns going until the boom popped out from under the pipes with a resounding booing, and I drove off..
I still do it today at shopping centres with the boom almost touching the windscreen until it comes up.
Just my bit of old fart fun.
The gateway bridge is the one that caught me out......And of course the place I have to leave the motorway is the next exit