A Genuine Austalian Hero

Robbo

With all the chaos in Australia, we have to pay honour to this man for his services to make sure his village could still get pints. As the town burnt, he fought the fire with buckets and a hose to save the pub.

"The houses opposite the pub had all exploded, the witnesses say, and if Peter hadn't done what he did the pub would have gone up too. Peter says there's no one who's heroic, you just do it ... [But] Peter Thorneycroft is an Australian hero, he is a genuine Australian hero."

Houses exploding and you keep your mind on the job in hand, saving the pub. Peter Thorneycroft, I'm cracking open a few tinnies in your honour.

geraardo

Man of the year well done sir and saved some people aswell.

jester77

While on heroes, just back from a few weeks in Oz and I was told this story in a town I visited (Coober Pedy) about a guy called Karl Bratz, a bit exaggerated I would say but entertaining. He was a bit of a heavy drinker and his wife got fed up with him, packed her bags and moved to Adelaide. A few months later Karl was diagnosed with a liver disease and told he had only a few months to live, so he went down to the bank and got a credit card with an $8k limit on it and spent his last few months getting wasted. He also sold off whatever assets he had for next to nothing. Just before he passed away he took out the remainder of his credit card limit and left it behind the bar for his funeral. A keg was insribed with "Have a drink on me" and it is now his headstone, according to the story the priest was pumping the keg for his mates while giving the mass His wife didn't bother showing up for the funeral but she returned later to see what she could claim only to find out he had sold everything and the bank landed her with the $8k credit card bill. She did a legger and hasn't been seen since!