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Eric has been inundated with requests for him
to fly with helicopter services. Eagle 1 was cool, but while he
decided whether he should return home to fly with HEMS or head south
for a bit of Aussie action he felt he needed to chill. A lot! So
where better to head than ................Tuktoyaktuk, which
depending on your phrasebook , translates as "looks like a
caribou" or "it is implausibly cold here" and you can
find the proof by clicking on this link www.tuktoyaktuk.com/travel2.htm#weather
Eric had always had a crush on that Turner
girl in "Northern Exposure" but too many nights on relief
blurred his memory, so he accepted an invitation from the "Due
South" police force and headed North, to the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, and You would not believe how far north the Northern
Territories reach!
He
stayed with Emma and Urbano The Magnificent, and whilst
Satellite TV was in the package, supper was not, so on arrival, Our
Hero was sent to fish for supper. Yes, this is the arctic, yes this
is a real foto, and yes, the beer did freeze. In twenty eight
seconds.
Refrigeration
slows things down, as any messroom fridge will  prove,
and there was plenty of time to make friends, Eric was keen to stay
on the "straight and narrow", .seen here with
Cst.Bent at the nerve centre of arctic crime fighting. The
occasional murder, traffic smash and unidentified heads in the ice.
You know the sort of cosy "dixon of dock green, "Ev'ning
all" police work. How things would change in a few short
hours...
The
days are short: About an hour or so of daylight in summer, which
means  very
long nights. Eric could not miss out on an invitation to a converted
truck which served strong licor all night and where he was promised
he would see a few moose's . Nineteen hours later Eric was
arrested for his part in an incident he has no recollection of.
Eric
arrived at the police station in handcuffs (again) and was fully
appraised of his rights in three languages, yet he squandered his
one phone call on a card he had in his pocket "0898 GET U
OFF" It seems this was yet another misunderstanding! His
explanation that he couldn't find any ice to dilute his hooch was
deemed "unlikely" by the arresting officer....
This
was certainly no way to treat a yellow furry superstar, and Eric's
protest that he was not to be treated like  Hugh
Grant fell on deaf ears, anyway superstars
could still be arrested, and there was proof that both Eric and Hugh
Grant had at one point both laid on a Furley, or was it Hurley?
"Irrelevant!" the photographer said as he took the mugshot
"we let 'em out in the morning...It's the wives I feel sorry
for..." he continued in a disinterested way.
The cell door banged shut,
and Eric new that he would not be flying anywhere  for
a very long time. Perhaps on his release he could go to Saudi or
another dry nation, as perhaps he has been partying too hard: So
much time to think, and look back on his high octane lifestyle. If
only London Air ambulance (HEMS) had answered his letters, he would
not be banged up in a cell in the arctic circle. It would be a long
long night, but looking at his dodgy-looking cell -mate at least he
would not get cold......
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