PASTMASTER
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Come to think of it, four times. Pulled a Transit out of a ditch with the Freelander - OK that's boring but it was on the Black Sea coast in Turkey...
Also did an almost rescue on Dartmoor, also in the Freelander 1. Got a message one of my girl cadets was unconscious, phoned the police to alert Dartmoor rescue, but they had never heard of them (they are/were based in Okehampton Police Station!) and said they'd send the air ambulance. I said I didn't know if I needed it, but they insisted, and I spent a while trying to tell them how to find her: they didn't understand a grid ref and "which road is it on?" and "which town is it near" don't really work on Dartmoor. Anyway I got to her before the chopper did, and she was OK but they took her to hospital anyway. I bent two sills and broke the under-engine plate, but the insurance paid (to my surprise). Also pulled a military Landrover out of a bog - didn't want to embarrass him by just driving it out - and used my Disco TDi to pull out another Disco who'd parked in a ditch and found he couldn't get out again. That's not many over 20 years though...
Also did an almost rescue on Dartmoor, also in the Freelander 1. Got a message one of my girl cadets was unconscious, phoned the police to alert Dartmoor rescue, but they had never heard of them (they are/were based in Okehampton Police Station!) and said they'd send the air ambulance. I said I didn't know if I needed it, but they insisted, and I spent a while trying to tell them how to find her: they didn't understand a grid ref and "which road is it on?" and "which town is it near" don't really work on Dartmoor. Anyway I got to her before the chopper did, and she was OK but they took her to hospital anyway. I bent two sills and broke the under-engine plate, but the insurance paid (to my surprise). Also pulled a military Landrover out of a bog - didn't want to embarrass him by just driving it out - and used my Disco TDi to pull out another Disco who'd parked in a ditch and found he couldn't get out again. That's not many over 20 years though...