Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: What Blew Away? Samantha, good morning, good morning?
Speaker 1: Why are you Christian?
Speaker 2: Good month? I had a great weekends actually called in the show,
Speaker 2: so what blew Away?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm in Geelong and I got a call from
Speaker 1: the Sees saying that there was a trampoline ended up
Speaker 1: in my backyard from my neighbor.
Speaker 2: Up the road, blowing down the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it ended up in my backyard. And all I
Speaker 1: said was to the Sees guy, not my dogs. But
Speaker 1: I wasn't worried about the dogs. First thing I said,
Speaker 1: is it jumpable? Can I come home and jump on it?
Speaker 1: But yeah, I lost my barbecue smashed. It's gone up
Speaker 1: the side of the house and my dog kennels went
Speaker 1: flying and my dogs were huffing and puffing.
Speaker 2: When I got cudda, this just sounds like the Wizard
Speaker 2: of Oce. What do you mean the dog kennel flew
Speaker 2: up in the air.
Speaker 1: Well, they flew, They chew plastic dog kennels and they
Speaker 1: ended up down near the clothes line. So you imagine
Speaker 1: if they were in there. I would not like to
Speaker 1: think if they were in there when that happened.
Speaker 2: I've never heard if not. Dogs sort of been blown
Speaker 2: up in the air and sort of down the road,
Speaker 2: tumbling along with the trampoline, dogs in their kennels.
Speaker 3: So that's sad.
Speaker 1: That's terrible, isn't it?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 2: And so how many doors away? Was the was the
Speaker 2: trampoline from the top end of the street?
Speaker 1: All houses down?
Speaker 2: Bloody? I was strong with the winds. Where was this? Then?
Speaker 2: That's chaos?
Speaker 1: It was pretty bad. I lost I've lost a few
Speaker 1: tiles and different things. And the guttering is a bit mangled,
Speaker 1: but that's all right.
Speaker 3: It can be fixed.
Speaker 2: Samantha, thank you very much. You kill me. I have
Speaker 2: a good day.
Speaker 1: Thank you to kristin Bay, Maria coom Oning gang.
Speaker 2: How are you where, Maria? What blew away?
Speaker 5: My son?
Speaker 6: When he went to school. We sent him to a
Speaker 6: private school and part of the uniform was a ridiculously
Speaker 6: expensive hat they had to wear. And about three weeks
Speaker 6: into his first term, he was standing on the train
Speaker 6: station and the wind caught the hat and off it
Speaker 6: went and it was rolling down the station and he
Speaker 6: went after it, and pretty similar to you in your cabana,
Speaker 6: he went rugby diving just as it was about to
Speaker 6: go off the station onto the tracks. Managed to catch it,
Speaker 6: but came home with extremely badly Gray's knees and elbows.
Speaker 6: But he said, I didn't lose my hat.
Speaker 2: Oh, you can't lose the hat because no hat, no
Speaker 2: play shed all lu stream wind.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it wasn't that's not a hat, Jack. It was
Speaker 6: a hat that they had to wear going to and
Speaker 6: from school. They didn't have to wear it when they
Speaker 6: were outside during during the day.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 6: Oh, it was ridiculous. They used to refer to it
Speaker 6: as the summer of Kubra and it looked like all
Speaker 6: al boater hat.
Speaker 3: How have I never seen these students work in the street?
Speaker 6: He was on the other side of town, Jack, you
Speaker 6: lived on.
Speaker 2: I think they'd go to school under the cover of darkness.
Speaker 6: You'd know which school I was talking about, and every
Speaker 6: godbody who goes there knows about it as well.
Speaker 2: They're still wearing the felt the coobra's today, are they No?
Speaker 6: I think they faced them out in the last couple
Speaker 6: of years. That this was about ten years ago.
Speaker 2: Amazing scenes, Maria, very funny story. Thanksgiving us to call mete.
Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast, asking you right now?
Speaker 2: What blew away? Good morning, Adam at work already, Christian.
Speaker 2: One of my early memories is the day we moved
Speaker 2: to Melbourne from Regional VIC. I was about five years old.
Speaker 2: To cheer me up about leaving and moving to the
Speaker 2: big Smoke, my parents had got me a yellow balloon.
Speaker 2: We're about to get in the car and leave forever.
Speaker 2: The balloon blew out my hands and took off down
Speaker 2: the driveway my feckless father. This is still obviously burns.
Speaker 2: This happened in nineteen seventy eight, my feckless father, which
Speaker 2: is a pucke. One day, my feckless father and uncle
Speaker 2: both gave half hearted chase. This still hurts all the
Speaker 2: way back in nineteen seventy eight, but an even greater
Speaker 2: gust of wind launched it further into the air and
Speaker 2: out from the driveway moments later, Christian. It was in
Speaker 2: the stratosphere. All during the two hour drive to our
Speaker 2: new home, my uncle would randomly point at non specific
Speaker 2: points in the sky and yell, there's your balloon. Each
Speaker 2: time I'd strained to look up and not see anything.
Speaker 2: Each time my uncle would tell me I just missed it.
Speaker 2: It's gone behind a cloud, before pointing again at some
Speaker 2: nonspecific cloud. I'm not saying that was traumatized or anything,
Speaker 2: but I'm forty seven now and I'm still thinking about
Speaker 2: that yellow balloon. Adamat bestless, restless father? All right? What
Speaker 2: blew away? Phil? Good morning, morning guys.
Speaker 3: How are we?
Speaker 2: Yeah? We're good. Feel we'll haping a great weekend? What
Speaker 2: blew away? Phil?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 6: I was down at the beach at Rosebud. My umbrella
Speaker 6: blew away and went about twenty meters and a couple
Speaker 6: of lovely ladies grabbed it, pully, and as they were
Speaker 6: wrangling mine, there's blue.
Speaker 1: Lots blow away.
Speaker 4: So I gave chase for theirs and.
Speaker 1: Then we're about two hundred meters sprinting bards try and
Speaker 1: get it back to this lovely group ladies.
Speaker 6: Who are somebody?
Speaker 2: What a scene down the beach to be watching that.
Speaker 2: It's just an innocent bystander, not involved in the frack arm.
Speaker 6: Will I spent running after attempts?
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 2: It's hard giving chase anything in the sand. Brutal, It's brutal.
Speaker 2: It is fell, thank you very much, and cool mate,
Speaker 2: that's got a leanne here. Good morning Liam, good morning, An.
Speaker 2: What blew away? Ah?
Speaker 4: Well, we were towing home our canravan on the freeway
Speaker 4: at one hundred kilometers and the roof of the cantervan
Speaker 4: blew off. All the canvas around the side that connects
Speaker 4: to the bottom blew off, and everything inside the canvravan
Speaker 4: that wasn't nailed down also blew backwards, causing carnage all
Speaker 4: over the road and massive traffic jams and a great
Speaker 4: big mess.
Speaker 2: Ly So basically after a while you're just knowing, well,
Speaker 2: you're just having some wheels on you basically the act.
Speaker 6: Yes, it was like a trailer just been stripped away.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: So what it happened was there a window open or
Speaker 2: something that let the air in and under the ceiling.
Speaker 5: No, no where you hooked it in at the front.
Speaker 5: The wind had caught that somehow. It was an old
Speaker 5: camp van and it started to lift it. And then
Speaker 5: being at one hundred kilometers, the wind just lifted the
Speaker 5: roof and it just ripped everything off and flew everything
Speaker 5: flying everywhere, and.
Speaker 2: Then you caused a massive, a massive traffic jam.
Speaker 4: Well car's just had to pull over everywhere trying to
Speaker 4: avoid the mattresses and everything that were flying out, So.
Speaker 2: Did you start to run around and get kick nacked?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well we pulled over, and friends of ours that
Speaker 4: were following pulled over, and other people that had pulled over.
Speaker 6: We were all trying to clear it all off the road.
Speaker 6: And yeah, what.
Speaker 2: Absolute nightmare, Leanne. Incredible story though, thanks for thank you
Speaker 2: tomorrow on the show. We should just find out to
Speaker 2: speak a bit. Why did you cause a massive traffic
Speaker 2: jam seven years ago?
Speaker 3: On?
Speaker 2: People hate you, they don't care for your backstory. Well,
Speaker 2: while the car's broken down, if you've caused a traffic jam,
Speaker 2: you want to hide in that car? We went to
Speaker 2: be towed away? Have we got here? Kelly? Good morning, Kelly?
Speaker 3: Can i Christian? How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good Kelly. What what got blown away?
Speaker 3: Well? We were sitting at a cafe in Regional Victoria,
Speaker 3: a new little shop that just opened, and my husband
Speaker 3: I thought we'd go and check it out. I'm sitting
Speaker 3: there having some breakfast and my husband went inside to
Speaker 3: get maybe some salt pepper, and I'm sitting there eating
Speaker 3: my lovely breakfast when all of a sudden, the gust
Speaker 3: of wind came along and blew the massive cafe umbrella
Speaker 3: over the top of the cafe into the car park
Speaker 3: and onto our car, a.
Speaker 2: Perfect landing, and the Chianges did not give it ten
Speaker 2: out of ten. Oh my god, Kelly, So what happened?
Speaker 2: Did it set off or smashing the nod?
Speaker 3: It did take off a bit of duco and we'd
Speaker 3: only recently sort of got the car, and I was
Speaker 3: just sitting there though too. I sat there and I
Speaker 3: didn't couldn't believe that the wind had taken the umbrella,
Speaker 3: so I just kept eating my breakfast like nothing had happened.
Speaker 3: And my husband walks out and I'm just there, no umbrella.
Speaker 5: And.
Speaker 2: You see the brolly take off and land on your.
Speaker 3: Own above me. It was above me, Chrystal. You know,
Speaker 3: I was sitting under this huge umbrella which she would
Speaker 3: have thought augusta wind wouldn't be able to lift it
Speaker 3: because it should be weighted down, and of course it
Speaker 3: obviously wasn't weighted down correctly, and it sort of went
Speaker 3: over the top of the cafe, so I couldn't really
Speaker 3: see where it went until my husband came out sees
Speaker 3: me sitting there sort of umbrella naked now and there
Speaker 3: we go and check the car and of course it's
Speaker 3: hit the car. It's gone up the street like it
Speaker 3: really took off, and our car has been damaged. And
Speaker 3: of course the cafe owners tried to get out of
Speaker 3: playing the insurance, saying it was an act of God,
Speaker 3: but saying, for you know, we got covered by insurance.
Speaker 3: We got our car fixed.
Speaker 2: Because you get a free breakfast.
Speaker 3: No we didn't go back. No no, no free breakfast,
Speaker 3: and we decided maybe not to go back in the
Speaker 3: recommend a cafe twenty one in case you know, similar
Speaker 3: acts of God may have occurred.
Speaker 2: Who knows, I opened a cafe called acts of God's
Speaker 2: part of the Third of Eating. You don't know what
Speaker 2: might happen to tornadoes. Kelly, thank you very much, she
Speaker 2: called my great story, no worries.
Speaker 3: Thanks. Christian.
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