COASTGUARDS CALLED TO CAR.THE coastguard today called for common sense after two people got into difficulty on a Wirral beach in freezing conditions. At 11.50pm yesterday the pair reported their car was stuck at Thurstaston. They were advised by operators at Crosby to leave the area and call private breakdown specialists. But they returned with their parents' 4X4 which also failed to free the car. Later they woke a local farmer to ask for help with his tractor. Because of tidal tidal /ti·dal/ (ti´d'l) ebbing and flowing like the waters of the oceans. tid·al adj. Resembling the tides; alternately rising and falling. concerns coastguard volunteers were called out. C oastguard spokesman Ian Jackson Ian W. Jackson is a long time Free Software author and Debian developer. Jackson wrote dpkg, SAUCE, userv and debbugs. He used to maintain the Linux FAQ. He runs chiark.greenend.org.uk, a popular server, home to PuTTY among other things. said: "This situation could have waited until daylight." |
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