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It's been a very long day.
We should have been home 4-5 hours ago.
Saw a young man, broken down on a long isolated section of the highway. It's rural Halifax; No Cell towers there!
Can't call for help, or tell his wife.
He'd have been there all night. #THREAD
#THREAD My my wife waiting in the van, we located a large hole in the monster tires he had. He had a small temporary spare, unsuited to match the other really wide tires. The last garage was in Sheet Harbour, 33 kms back. I saw my cousin was home when I passed, 15 kms ago. He had a plug kit & Air Pig (tank)
He had heard something puncture his tires & it went down fast. He was trying to flag down help, and each 4x4 like his, slowed and went by without stopping.
When did people stop helping others in need?
He was expecting someone to stop ,but I was the only one that did.
We still had to go 35 kms back to Sheet Harbour to fill the tank. And he purchased a newer plug kit in case the ones my cousin had, were no good. They were stored in the cold and the adhesive cement was questionable.
I was up since 4am, I'm pretty good with long drives but when it gets dark (and it was wet) , I'm burned out. I still had to drive 33 kms back to Sheet Harbour to fill the Air Pig (Tank) to 200 lbs. I told my cousin I would personally drive back to return it when complete. And we went back to truck
And when we got back, this finger sized hole need two plugs and took a sledge hammer to drive it in to these deep tread monster tires. We had plenty of time to talk, an hour back and forth driving, and out in the cold helping him. It was getting dark too, hard to see, & I heard his story
He is a young fisherman, young family, $550k invested in his lobster boat, $20K bait, $20k Salary per crewman. Licence fees, and far more. He won't make any money for about 20 years, before the ROI on his investment starts paying out.
His boat is right at the end of Halifax, 5 kms past my house.
His truck, nice looking and expensive, wasn't new, but cost a lot of money. He was in debt for everything. His transmission had just been replaced $6500. He'd run out of Line of Credit.
He's going to sail with the fleet in Yarmouth tomorrow, to make some money. He had to go to Truro first
It costs me nearly a tank of gas both ways when I go to my rural home. I'd just put $100 gas in before we left, and we put another 100+ kms back and forth getting what we needed to fix him up. He wanted to give me money for gas, but before I knew how broke he was, I wouldn't take any. ESPECIALLY NOW
Pixy's Journey 
@PixysJourney@beige.party@Rasta wow it was so good of you to help him out!! I'm very sure it meant a lot to him and now he can safely get to his work and make some well needed money. Thank you for sharing and caring! 
@PixysJourney He's still driving. he had 5 more hours past where I rescued him, I still had to go back and return the borrowed tank, then come back again and continue to town. BURNED a lot of gas, but worth it
@Rasta it was definitely worth it and I'm sure he'll always remember the stranger that rescued him when he was stranded in the middle of nowhere! 
@PixysJourney @Rasta wow well done. It's almost an unwritten rule in Australia that you don't drive past someone in trouble and check if they are ok.
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We have checked in on someone that had pulled up on the side of the highway when we were coming back from the coast, (turned out they were fine) and they did the same when we broke down.
@skyfire747 @Rasta I can't offer too much help, except for maybe a ride somewhere, as I'm definitely not handy... But most areas here have cellphone coverage and we don't have too many places where it's considered to be very rural...
But yeah, if I'd know that there was someone in need of help, I'd to my best to help as well!
That said... I once saw an accident happen back in 1998. I had a cellphone, which was more rare then than it is now. I offered to call ambulance for an elderly lady that had been (softly) hit by a car... And she gave me the rudest reply I ever got for offering to help... So sometimes... Things are weird.... 
@PixysJourney @Rasta some people just don't like being helped.
@skyfire747 @Rasta yeah I guess... But I wondered if that "lady" would also be one to condemn the youth for not being helpful enough...
@skyfire747 @PixysJourney
I drove that highway late at night regular. I left at 4am to drive to the ship in the city, I've been the first on scene to assist injured after an accident, and provided gas, and helped pull people out of ditches .
I was pretty pissed, in a snowstorm, when I pulled over safely and left my wife in the car, and a crowd was stopped but no one had checked the driver (I was a first aid instructor) I was up to the window, thought he was in shock. HE WAS DRUNK! Unhurt, but.
@skyfire747 @PixysJourney I wanted to HURT HIM.
He said, Oh, it's ok, I think a tow truck will come..
Not before the cops get here. It was a slippery night, a risk to cross the highway to assist,& the Ahole was drunk.
But, here's a funny story if your ears aren't bleeding yet 
. I drove Murdercycles year round. Snowmobile suit to keep warm and special boots, with laminated felt insulation between two layers .Your feet never felt t cold. One winter, when I arrived at work, it started to snow
@skyfire747 @PixysJourney
I had all day at work and potentially able to stay on ship overnight if snow on the highway, but our ship was in drydock so I wasn't staying on board. Put my snowmobile suit and helmet on and noticed the top of my spark plugs were broken off. I thought someone vandalized my bike. but morning snow melted on hot engine and refroze around the spark plug white part, snapping all 4. Because the highway had nothing, I carry spare plugs and put them on and headed home ...
@skyfire747 @PixysJourney
but it had snowed heavily further out along the ocean. I was down to one tire track on the highway to drive the motorbike. Not studded tires. I was fine, in that 8 inch wheel track >Suddenly a station wagon went out of control, crossed into my lane & into the ditch on my side. Fortunately no one hurt. A senior couple were stunned but OK. The lady said, we were so lucky you came by , where's your snowmobile? (seeing Snowsuit and helmet), I said, I'm on a motorbike LOL
@Rasta @skyfire747 Ow wow! You do have some stories to tell. And they fortunately have decent endings... So much can go wrong in such a snap of a moment....
@PixysJourney He will. He was feeling like he was using me, we were tired and we had a drive ahead of us, but I was the only one that would help him, it had to be done. His livelihood is on the ocean, and it leaves before daylight tomorrow.
Without a break down ,he had one stop to make. Without stopping, it's a five hour drive, he's 455 kms from home where his own boat is. (283 miles) he'll feel as old as me, when the boat leaves harbour on the other end of the province
@Rasta wow that's quite a stretch. I hope he can make it safely and be in time to get to the boat.
You're right and I guess that if you had not helped, you'd be feeling a lot worse now. It will definitely have saved him in different ways and that's always a good reason to offer help when you can.
@PixysJourney KARMA has repaid me many times in the past for my charitable help.
It used to be, your neighbour helped you and you helped them no money changes hands.
But now, we're different cultures, too many conservatives *rural votes conservative* The Love is gone, sadly, But if I think a minute, I can name dozens more LIKE THIS, that I do regularly