In article , Charles
Yeates writes


In 1991 I landed just off the main road between Bury St Edmonds
and Diss, in big field clearly visible from this highway.

This being some time before cell-phones I had to wander off to
find a landline. When returned I was met a motor cycle cop, who wanted
to know who I was, where I'd come from, why I'd landed there, what
arrangements had been made for the recovery of the glider. I was able to
reassure him on this point. Then he told me that the emergency services
had been called. Someone had seen a glider land and no-one getting out,
so, of course, they must be injured.

About five minutes later the a fire truck turned up and seemed
disappointed they didn't have a fire to put out. Then an ambulance,
whose crew wanted to check I didn't need resuscitating.

I made another outlanding the next day, and my first call when I
got to a phone was to 999 (emergency # in the UK). It was the first time
they'd had someone call to say there wasn't an emergency.

--
Mike Lindsay