hughesy
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Last night me and my lad went out for a ride to the beach in our 110 truck cab just to have a look at the sea and get a bit of fresh air. Drove up to the top of the dunes and there was a disco parked up in a slightly odd place. My lad said "He looks stuck to me". I didn't think so but lo and behold the driver got out and came over to ask for help. He'd been playing about and had got himself beached well and truly with both pasenger side wheels off the ground! Anyway we tried to give him a yank out with a bit of polypropelene rope I had in the cab but it snapped straight away. The chap was getting a bit desperate as by now it was getting dark. He'd rung the AA and by the sound of it they'd had a good laugh at his predicament and told him to ring back tomorrow! Anyway to cut a long story short we went home, got the other 110 with fat tyres, a winch and a proper recovery strop, hooked his disco up and yanked him out without to much trouble. He was a very, very grateful man indeed and we felt like we'd done our good deed for the day, but on the way home we wondered if we would have gone to the same lengths if it had been a Toyota or some other crappy foreign "truck". Don't think we would probably