You couldn't make it up.

[Chippy_Tea]

Its been leathering it down all day up here i woulnt fancy going on the motorway with string operating the wipers.

Pigs in blankets anyone.




North West Motorway Police
@NWmwaypolice

Vehicle drove passed us on the M62 After seeing what appeared to be a leg stuck up in the back window we stopped it to find 2 full dead pigs that had just been purchased!

Driver had no driving license & his wipers were being worked by string by the passenger!

 

[marshbrewer]

Presumably, the ones in the back had previously tried to stop him for his wipers, but there had been some kind of altercation?

 

[Obadiah Boondoggle]

I was once a member of a well known first aid charity and we had an ambulance there whose accelerator was operated by a piece of string, there was a little hook to hook it round to maintain a constant speed!

Another ambulance had a blue flashing light but the blue cover had fallen off

 

[Chippy_Tea]

They went to buy two pigs and ended up with more pigs than they wanted.









Only joking folks.

Why were the police called pigs - It became frequently used again during the 1960s and 1970s in the underground and anti-establishment culture. The adult cartoon Fritz The Cat (1972) portrayed the police as pigs, adding to the popularity of the term. Now prevalent in many English-speaking countries.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

They went to buy two pigs and ended up with more pigs than they wanted.









Only joking folks.

It's not Cockney rhyming slang is it?

 

[Cwrw666]

Reminds me of old landrovers - the wipers were operated by a little lever at the top of the windscreen that you moved by hand. How you did that while changing gear while steering round a bend I don't know. Maybe you needed a passenger with a length of string.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Reminds me of old landrovers - the wipers were operated by a little lever at the top of the windscreen that you moved by hand. How you did that while changing gear while steering round a bend I don't know. Maybe you needed a passenger with a length of string.

A mate of mine had a heavily customised ford pop back in the day and he had those to operate the wipers.
The one below wasn't his but its very close and his had two wipers.

 

[VW911]

Years ago a friends dad asked him to pick up a pig from the slaughterhouse.
He tied the front legs together, hooked them around his neck, and rode home with it on the back of his moped!

 

[BrewMeHappy]

Who has a freezer big enough to stick a couple of pigs in? They are not exactly small even when butchered. My freezer is rammed full just buying a few things from Asda.

 

[Clint]

Who has a freezer big enough to stick a couple of pigs in? They are not exactly small even when butchered. My freezer is rammed full just buying a few things from Asda.

Murderers...they usually have big freezers..or patios.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Who has a freezer big enough to stick a couple of pigs in? They are not exactly small even when butchered. My freezer is rammed full just buying a few things from Asda.

As they are in the back of an unfefrigerated car I assume they were going to butcher them as soon as they got them home, I wonder where they sell the meat now the pubs are all but closed.

 

[BrewMeHappy]

I think I'll stick to getting my meat from the supermarket

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Makes you wonder which poor sods were going to buy the meat off them and where.

 

[Scrattajack]

Isn't the 'pig' thing a reference to Animal Farm?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Another you couldn't make it up story.


A man had to be stretchered off Dove Crag by Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team on Christmas morning.
He had suffered injuries related to the cold, after camping overnight.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Vehicle reported on the M6 in Staffordshire travelling Northbound as weaving lane to lane and only travelling on 3 wheels
@CMPG
patrol got behind vehicle at junction 16 with assisting of Cheshire RCU patrols veh stopped junction 18 driver detained after giving a reading of 65

 

[LED_ZEP]

As a biker windscreen wipers even if operated by string are a luxury and I could only ever manage to fit one pig on the back.
I wouldn't have dared to have called her that to her face though.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

As a biker windscreen wipers even if operated by string are a luxury

Have you tried RainX?

 

[LED_ZEP]

Have you tried RainX?

I used a wax on the visor and had a small length of wiper blade glued to the back of the thump on my glove.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I haven't been on a bike for several years but seem to remember a product we used back then it wasn't RainX but it was similar.