That last part, when you know you’re beyond ever stopping, happens in slow motion: the camel runs out from the trees and across the mountain road to Yemen that was empty seconds ago, and you stare in morbid fascination as he is followed by another, and another, and the LandCruiser slides into all of them. And the camels keep on coming and blot out everything else.
And then the first camel ploughed into me, deep into the side of the car, so hard the metal crumpled, and his legs buckled, and that massive, mid-level mass crashed down on the hood, breaking the fan underneath, sliding up, into the windshield till it turned black, through the windshield, and I choked on glass and camel hair and came to a halt, thinking we’d all died.
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Aaaaargh! I told you to drive safely!!!
So those indentations on the bonnet and the sides are from camel limbs? Huge! Thanks God you are fine. Shame camel died. Who took that picture? I can’t imagine how anyone could take a picture straight after that, unless he was born with a camera around his neck, a photo- journalist, or has stamina. Have your pick.
I shot that but am pretty ashamed because I didn’t really do it professionally. Hmm.. give me a little while with all these options…
I have just noticed! This is one evidence that u have bad luck with cars! Probably not something you want recorded on your blog
. It is a real story though…kind of.
amazingly the camel didn’t die, aisha, but it was pretty upset about the whole episode. Nigel
I was just looking at the photo for a minute, trying to imagine what must have happened to the car..was thinking of boulders/landslide.. and then read the write-up — camels!!
The best stories indeed are our own…..