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2 ResponsesIt really did happen in Roundstone
Over the years this email has circulated, showing a car being pulled out of the water by a crane on a truck, only to have the truck fall in too. A second truck is called, and in an obviously fake photoshop, the second truck falls in too. It was always said that it was in Ireland, and that only added to the ha-ha diddly-dee of it for our foreign counterparts. But is it true? As ever, Snopes has the answer.
It happened in Roundstone, Connemara around September 2004, as detailed on roundstone-connemara.com.
Better set of photos of the incident are here. It recently hit youtube too.
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here’s more info:
http://www.eire.com/2004/11/18/have-you-seen-this-pier
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=202962
‘OMG cant believe theres pics of this online!
I was there when this incident happened… infact I would have been right beside the camera-man… goes to show how observant I am!
To clarify, it happened at Roundstone Pier, Conemmara, Galway.
What happened was…
Fella who owns the car is a right eejit. He was parked facing the pier, parked right up against the edge. He was rolling a joint in the car, etc, etc… Not realising he hadnt put on the handbrake. He got out to smoke his doobie away leaning against the car happy out then *splash* in goes the car…
Tow truck comes along to try and take the car out, that goes *splash*
It was quite a funny scene I must admit and the fella who owns the car felt the right eejit because theres only a population of about 100 people in the village… you can imagine the talk!’
Bwahahahahaha brilliant…….but a Coldplay warning would have been appreciated……