I'll never forget when I was a firefighter and driving the pump rather rapidly on blues down a High Street to an RTA, when an elderly lady with toddler and pushchair scampered across the road in front of me. Now I'm sorry folks, but a pump is a large, very fast and very loud piece of red equipment and difficult to miss with its blues on in the middle of the rush hour. Suffice to say, if I hadn't had ABS available under my right foot, I wouldn't have stopped in time (thanks to Dennis). I was impressed by the amount of blue smoke emanating from the wheel arches. Anyway, there was a chorus of "f*****g hell you're going to hit her" from all my colleagues in the cab. Those who were trying to put BA on were not happy. Problem was that the cab windows were open and the lady heard these screams. Later that day we were advised by Control a complaint had been made to the Chief Officer about our swearing. The Sub' got into a bit of bother over it. You couldn't make it up!