Speaker 1: Quest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Yesterday
Speaker 2: on the show, then we got the story from Fiona,
Speaker 2: and I thought we could get some more stories about
Speaker 2: things blown away and flying away Christian. I bought a
Speaker 2: big painting on canvas. They brought it out to the
Speaker 2: car and I realized it was too big to fit
Speaker 2: to the station work and I had so I try
Speaker 2: to attach it to the roof rack with string and
Speaker 2: duct tape.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: You know when you see people who have tried to
Speaker 2: do this, they don't it's only two k's, it's not far,
Speaker 2: and they look so nervous. You know that isn't making
Speaker 2: it back to your house. I thought if a drive
Speaker 2: home at Snail's pace, everything would be okay.
Speaker 1: It wasn't.
Speaker 2: About two hundred meters up the road, the painting flew
Speaker 2: off the roof and landed in the middle of the
Speaker 2: road and I had to stop the traffic. So yesterday
Speaker 2: were talked about why did you have to stop the traffic?
Speaker 2: But I think there might be more stories from you
Speaker 2: this morning on nine four one four, one oh four
Speaker 2: three about things flying away. I remember being up about
Speaker 2: a year and a half ago on a holiday. We're
Speaker 2: up on the Gold Coast and I brought this gazebo
Speaker 2: to protect us from the sun. Only the wind changed
Speaker 2: really quickly and the gazebo and being just in the sea,
Speaker 2: I could see this gazeba tumbling. It was like doing
Speaker 2: several flipping and people were like moving their kids out
Speaker 2: of the way, and you know when they look at
Speaker 2: down the beach and go, where's the jet that didn't
Speaker 2: secure this or but were enough sand and I was like,
Speaker 2: we don't need to wait it down too much as
Speaker 2: a lovely sunny day kids. I then had to get
Speaker 2: out and run. I was actually chasing this gazebo and
Speaker 2: it's bloody. Had to get one of those it starts
Speaker 2: because it became then a kind of sorts as the
Speaker 2: wind was behind sort of pulling me.
Speaker 3: At what point do you just leave and go shuffle
Speaker 3: the family off the bat It's not our.
Speaker 2: Someone else's problem. Yeah, jackie boy, if you've got to
Speaker 2: saw about something flying away.
Speaker 3: I had one over summer. I tried to do a
Speaker 3: DIY project with Mum and Dad's old outdoor umbrella, one
Speaker 3: of the big ones that you hoist above an outdoor setting,
Speaker 3: and I took the top off it and just put
Speaker 3: the canvas umbrella on the outdoor. I guess it's like
Speaker 3: an open pergole of that backyard, so it's got no shade.
Speaker 3: I thought I'll just use the big umbrella and make
Speaker 3: a shade class with it. Tied it down with metal wire,
Speaker 3: so I thought it was solid. It wasn't even a
Speaker 3: week up there before it snapped the wire.
Speaker 1: And blew off. Wow to go next door.
Speaker 3: No, it's thankfully it didn't because if it did, it
Speaker 3: could have really caused some damage. It just went further
Speaker 3: into the backyard.
Speaker 1: So what just like metal wires, use cable ties or anything.
Speaker 3: No, I thought it was stronger than I thought metal
Speaker 3: wire was strong. The cable ties would have come off
Speaker 3: surely plastic.
Speaker 1: Christian Connell's show podcast, Patsy, what's your story? What flew away? Mate?
Speaker 4: Dad was taking me to UNI back in the day
Speaker 4: and he had strapped my wardrobe on the top of
Speaker 4: the roof or actually no, he'd sort of put the
Speaker 4: wardrobe in the back of his ute on the tray
Speaker 4: and like put straps around the cab.
Speaker 1: You mean like a wooden sort.
Speaker 4: Of old style wardrobe because there wasn't a wardrobe in
Speaker 4: my room and he'd got those you know, those stretches.
Speaker 2: In my mind, this is a walking one. It's an
Speaker 2: actual room.
Speaker 3: Floor room at university.
Speaker 1: There's an entire room being towed. And you see those
Speaker 1: wide loads.
Speaker 2: It's one of those cabins. It's perhaps he's walking wardrope.
Speaker 5: I wish it was.
Speaker 4: No, it was just one of those secondhand, old wooden
Speaker 4: ones that's about one hundred years old.
Speaker 1: I used to weigh a ton, did he used.
Speaker 4: To weigh a ton? Anyway, So we were setting off
Speaker 4: from Country Victoria into Melbourne and we hit about eu
Speaker 4: Rolla and Dad had to break suddenly on the freeway
Speaker 4: and this thing you could just hear, like the twing
Speaker 4: of those stretchy things with the hooks on the end. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it come loose, and the thing just, I swear, just
Speaker 4: flew over the top of the cab and just banged
Speaker 4: in front on the freeway and it was spinning like
Speaker 4: some sort of breakdowncer on its back, just going round
Speaker 4: and round and round. It was just and it just
Speaker 4: fell apart.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, your nineties flying across the freeway.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. Those things are called octopus springs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeahsome aren't they.
Speaker 2: You know, when you stretch something and if you if
Speaker 2: you don't get there rhyin a hook up with its
Speaker 2: other other half and put it together and they fly back.
Speaker 1: They will smash you in the wrist. I always get
Speaker 1: the back of your hand.
Speaker 3: I'm always scared of doing them.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that's what it's called. Steve's on the line, Steve,
Speaker 2: what flew away?
Speaker 6: Hey, Hey, guys, my daughter's trampoline.
Speaker 1: Yeah, trampolines and umbrellas always get blown away, don't they.
Speaker 1: So what happened?
Speaker 6: It was a really windy day and I've got a
Speaker 6: knock at the door, and my neighbor has asked me
Speaker 6: if I was missing something from my backyard. Enough, the
Speaker 6: trampoline was missing. So I went next door with my
Speaker 6: neighbor and found the trampoline perfectly placed in the middle
Speaker 6: of the backyard at his place, and damaged like someone
Speaker 6: had just put it there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the perfect land and a ten from the judges.
Speaker 1: So what do you have to do? Did you just
Speaker 1: roll it down the road back to yours?
Speaker 6: He helped me carry it back next door. Not very heavy,
Speaker 6: big big round one with the mesh on the sides.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they used to. We were hardcore. You smashed that.
Speaker 1: Oh that's up to you.
Speaker 2: Nothing good's coming your way. We weed out the thickies,
Speaker 2: let them bounce off. Now we keep all the thickies
Speaker 2: in the net, you know, Steve, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: You call it. Let's go to Sam. Good morning, Sam.
Speaker 5: Hi Christian Patson, Jack, how are you well?
Speaker 1: Remembered? And Sam? What flew away?
Speaker 5: So my sister and her partner were at the park
Speaker 5: one day and her pet ferret was swooped by a bird,
Speaker 5: and the bird took the ferret and flew away with it. No, luckily, luckily.
Speaker 1: I'm still the family. Did it get yourself a proper dog?
Speaker 1: The ferret was taken away?
Speaker 5: Well luckily for her at that time when they're at
Speaker 5: the park, she had like a little leash for it,
Speaker 5: and had it on a leash like a dog.
Speaker 2: And that she was what was she then taking away?
Speaker 2: As reverse popping flying across the suburbs.
Speaker 5: She managed to unclutch the bird and get her pitt.
Speaker 1: See down at the dog park. It's incredible. So she
Speaker 1: got the ferret back?
Speaker 5: She did, She did get the ferret back.
Speaker 2: God a story that little fellow had when he got
Speaker 2: back to tell his little ferret friends what happened to
Speaker 2: him that day.
Speaker 1: Lovely stuff, so all right, sounds actually cool.
Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.