we are going to have a TOP videos awards

this will be twice a year

once in the first half of the year and once in the second half of the year

every member gets 100 points to spend and can vote for up to 10 videos

you must vote for a minimum of five videos

the most you can give each video you put up is 20 points - the least you can give each video you put up is 5 points

so I'll go first to give you the idea

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZood5m2D1g decent length "on board" patrol - includes RCC - 15 points for this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9n5UofGiHw scout group visit, not bad 7 points

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOX283zkmSg TOV mad (ext) - five points for effort

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOvh0aYrVe8 TOV mad (int) - five points for effort

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBM0quRl9c8 Derby Fire and Rescue 5 points as I wish I was there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIYGzN616Os TOV Range Rover pretty brief - 5 points

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_G4jbMXH98 TOV Toyota Landcrusier - 5 points

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdsNodmK_gw Brooklands Emer Services Show - 5 points for effort

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jghk6prBYCo Landcruiser but the sound is awful so turn it down - 5 points

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the most you can award is 20, the least you can give is 5, please nominate at least 5 videos

Here's my votes:

1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeTQNrXxmVA&feature=related 20 points for effort and for turning out 2 TM's as a crew

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZood5m2D1g 15 points

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axAwGurlm4E&feature=related 10 points just for shock value

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKtYNnG3yBQ&NR=1 5 points for the spotters

5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm0Y4tssnHU&feature=related 10 points just 'cos it's a new Shogun & jezza might be in it

6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP0bm69DIYI&feature=related 10 points

7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ6O1dNPggU&feature=related 10 points

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmfVx3s3WUU&feature=related 20 points Wish I could give this 100 The two TO's were outstanding

your number 8


it says "The Highways Agecny have CLOSED the northbound carriageway" when the Police arrive, sure enough, the whole motorway has been closed in that direction
I must admit I thought such decisions were still down to Police, I was very surprised

great video pongolad, just as you says it deserves 100 for sure

HA can close the M'way without the police - though some at the top get squeaky b*ms when you request it

Come on jezza, slabber, Rt et al, where's your nominations?

All the good videos have already been nominated, us hard working HATO's haven't got the time to peruse youtube unlike our shiny arsed ambo brethren

OM: "Why did you close the MXXX the other day?"

Me: "Cos I can "

Trawling through Youtube as we speak...

Too busy dealing with patients to get a shiney a*$e It's all the time off I get for working 12 hr shifts



Good man jezza....on both counts

I've seen national-ambulance, is that when you can get an ambo that works, how about this for being so wrong!!!

Here Goes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeTQNrXxmVA

10 Points - Two TM's? Gotta be a camera about.
Awarded the Palm D'Or for roping Sophie Raworth into it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm0Y4tssnHU

10 Points - Curses, spotted again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZood5m2D1g

10 Points - Probably did more for PR than our fleet of Press officers! Well done to all involved

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP0bm69DIYI

10 Points - Fookinell! Get those cones out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73LgssPk62c

10 Points - Muppet on a Moped!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N51PXhO-WvU

10 Points - Gawd bless the rubberneckers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu0CaoG72jA&NR=1

10 Points - Another reason why kids should be banned from overbridges, right in the way of a bit of shrapnel if the car goes up a bit violently

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rNzYl_GUGs

20 Points, Kegworth. Scares the crap outta me! (Sorry for the dodgy subtitles!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwJj4H8m070

10 Points - AWESOME Soundtrack

Ooh a shiney 'partsfinder'.....takes me back That's a private vehicle.....I only drive Mercs

As for National ambo - I've been neglecting my duties The 'good old days' of sleeping for 8 hrs of a night shift are long gone

Now we only get meal breaks and down time when we're waiting for (yet another) replacement shed to be unearthed from the museum

That "private vehicle" is one of BRCS newest ambo's, makes a change to the first one I ever drove for Red Cross when I joined 15 years ago. It was a "K" reg, with the K at the end!!!

It's not a recycled HA one, is it? Hope they don't expect it to do too much off road work

New isn't necessarily good.... the new 58/09 reg Ambo's have really bouncy suspensions Great if you used to be a Matelot but no use to us Landlubbers

jezza, some good choices there ducks

Was the red tab in the first clip the one who was hunting you down?

Kegworth - I remember it well, was on duty that night Was also on duty on the evening of the Lockerbie disaster

As for the last one, that sound track just confirms what I suspected Hi-vis lederhosen and high heels?? Not a pretty image

I didn't know about the Kegworth crash until this thread! Is there any memorial or marker at the crash site now? I go through that area all the time and have never seen anything.

There's a plaque on the bridge, just North of the crash site. Don't think there's anything road side. I drove past the site about a week after the incident, it was surreal. So close, yet so far