Page 13: Captain Peter Janson recovering after nasty fall from Kenworth truck

Melbourne man about town Captain Peter Janson is nursing his wounds after taking a nasty fall in the most unusual way.

Peter Janson took a ‘heavy fall’ after stepping out of a massive Kenworth truck. Picture: David Caird

Captain Peter Janson (he was once aide-de-camp to the King of Bhutan) is recovering in his six-storey city eyrie from a heavy fall.

No, not going down the stairs or over the jumps as a fearless steeplechase jockey, but as he stepped down from a massive Kenworth truck on his farm.

He says it reminded him of riding in the Grand National at Aintree, where the drop on the other side of Becher’s Brook was more than two metres.

He took that “flat out” and survived, but so did the flagging horse, which Janson refused to whip to the finish.

He finished third and was congratulated back at the stables by a bluff Yorkshireman who asked him, “Where did you learn to ride like that?”

Janson, always up for a laugh, responded with, “On your missus while you were at work.”

The rejoinder was a clout over the head with a piece of wood wielded by the irate husband.

Janson says he woke up in hospital.