laura_seabrook | Bus Incident

It was odd coming home tonight on the bus. We turned down Garth St and the bus driver stopped. From where I sat it looked like a pram in the middle of the road and a dog tied to it. The bus driver and I got out and when we got close discovered that it was an elderly man fallen face down on the road trying to reach his walker, with his dog tied to that.

We tried to get him up but it wasn't until an oncoming car stopped and the driver helped that we got him up again. He seemed more or less conscious (though he was smoking and he smelled of turps) and insisted on carrying on walking down the street in the road. There wasn't anything else that we could do but it was a bit scary.

Did he get home without falling over again? I don't know.