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Author: Zanf on March 19 2008 Viewed 1775 times. 22 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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I went to my friend Christian's after work for a cup of tea and a catch up, when we heard the sound of a crash outside. He lives on a busy one way system in Surrey Docks [Surrey Quays if you use the gentrified name] and said with complete unsurprise, "its only a crash - they happen all the time".
We tried looking outside but couldnt see anything but when I looked left, up towards the station, there was a bus planted into the front of some flats.
It seems a 188 had just pulled out of the bus station and then mounted the kerb, narrowly missing a girl [who was on the ground when we got there, surrounded by a huge crowd, in complete shock] and smashed into the flats.
There was no fatalities [thank feck] but I can imagine that traffic began to gridlock around south east and east london. I had to walk to Deptford to get the DLR home - rather than get the tube back to London Bridge and then catch a train.
Heres some photos but the quality sucks as its from my Blackberry which resides in my pocket for 99% of the time, so has a great collection of pocket fluff in the lens, plus its only about 1.7megapixels and it was dark.
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The final pic is of a chinese take away just down the road
BBC news has now reported the story: link | |
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Squeal
thank goodness they didn't hit.....
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Squeal
the chinese take-out (not take away you manky brit)
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Zanf
it might have been why the driver crashed into the flats - it would explain a lot.
Also, squeal - I found the manual for the mpd16 if you want it [to complete the package] - emmail me your address again and Ill post it out to you.
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seanh
exciting. i wonder how many of those people were on the bus and how many were people that just came to gawk?
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quip
its almost worth being a bus driver just so you can plant a bus in a flat. awesome.
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Roshi
Dang!
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Roshi
(Nerd that I am, I first thought this was about some new faster motherboard bus)
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atum
they really need to rethink the novelty double decker idea.
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Zanf
ha - if you were a proper nerd you would know that intel are going for 6 core cpus that will eventually remove the need for a FSB!
so...you FAIL!
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Roshi
I fail happily...and bow to the true nerd. 
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astroid
i think it had something to do with mistah fab
youtube.com/watch?v=YPNJjL9iznY
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atum
wonder how diffrent the chinese food is in UK compared to USA.
you guys have 1#KUNG PAO CHICKEN,2# SESAME CHICKEN, 3#ORANGE SWEET & SOUR CHICKEN, 4#CRAB RAGOON, or 5#PORK POTSTICKERS?
if so please give me an order of two #3s and a half or #4.
i'm hungry.
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atum
wait,
i want a two whole orders of #3, a half of #1, two eggrolls, 4 crab ragoons, and a sugar cookie
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jogn
and then? ...?
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DrexonField
Wow! craziness. I love the photo of the warning message on the ground.
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