Posted by arthur p bloom on Thursday, November 25, 2004 at 7:35PM :
In Reply to: Re: How not to hoist posted by David Sherman on Thursday, November 25, 2004 at 7:14PM :
A little research uncovered that this exercise in vehicular irony
occurred in the village of Roundstone in Connemara, County Galway,
Ireland on Saturday, Sept 4 of this year.
Here is the story reported as only genuine hometown journalism can:
"We have certainly have had our ups and downs in the village
this year what with somebody falling off the village wall,
thank god not killed, and then in the wee hours of Saturday
morning, a car goes into the Harbour, with a young man at
the wheel, the car landed upside down and if it was not for
the vigilance Mary King who alerted Sean de Courcey, Sean
fair play to him pulled this man out of the car, which was
nearly totally submerged in the tide and pulled him to safety,
what ever way you look at it, Sean saved his life, yet again
another near fatal accident, and then I suppose on the
slightly humorous side and to add insult to injury, a tow
truck was called out to pull the car out, now get this, the
truck fell in while trying to lift the car, no don't worry
there was no one in it, it was remote controlled, but the
machine was not heavier enough to lift the car out, therefore,
a proper professional machine had to be called in, and the
job was done, no loss of life, what was interesting the amount
of people that came to have a look at this task you would
think we had another social event going on."
apb
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