Whoops! Truck For Sale (slightly damp)

Interceptor · 18-11-2004 2:42pm #1

Found this on a Dutch site but its of an Irish harbour somewhere (Galway? Anyone?) Its self explanatory and its quite a sequence but might be 56k unfriendly. So for you people at the back, cars and trucks NOT float...

Splashh!!

'c

uberwolf · 18-11-2004 2:46pm

brilliant

the_syco · 18-11-2004 2:49pm

Hehe. I like.

seamus · 18-11-2004 3:12pm

Eep.

Look at picture number three. Note the people standing on the rear right hand side of the truck (left hand side to us). Particularly the young guy standing right on the edge looking at the car.

Now look at picture number 4. Where are they gone? They would clearly have been standing where that truck has just flipped to, and if you compare the positions of the boats in the mid left-hand side of the picture, at the back, not that much time has passed....

impr0v · 18-11-2004 3:31pm

Are the boats in motion though?

It's like the photographer knew what was going to happen. I'd imagine he was raging the bigger truck didn't go in trying to lift truck 1 and the car together, just to complete the sequence.

dahamsta · 18-11-2004 4:00pm

Seamus, if you look closely you'll see that yerman in the brown jumper standing at the edge is well back in the next shot, to the left of the guy in the white tshirt.

Looks to me like they put the forward stabiliser too near the quay wall, and it either slipped or the quay wall disintegrated.

Sure twas only a Civic anyway, they should've left it there. The world'd be a better place if more of 'em were driven into the sea.

adam

Borzoi · 18-11-2004 4:43pm

seamus wrote:

Eep.

Look at picture number three. Note the people standing on the rear right hand side of the truck (left hand side to us). Particularly the young guy standing right on the edge looking at the car. ....

Gotta love No6 - everybody lined out on the harbour wall looking at the truck. You can just imagine the converasation

Interceptor · 18-11-2004 9:34pm

dahamsta wrote:

Sure twas only a Civic

Eh, Adam its a Corolla van. But it won't be missed either - I hope its owner is safe and is planning a less boring replacement....

Be nice to Civics, 10,000 neds can't be wrong.

'c

daveirl · 18-11-2004 10:16pm

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skibum · 18-11-2004 10:22pm

interceptor beat you to it about 4 posts down

Truck for sale, slightly damp.....

Any idea where it happened?

daveirl · 18-11-2004 10:26pm

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smoke.me.a.kipper · 18-11-2004 10:33pm

lol, excellent. bet that was the talking point in the village pub for weeks.

ED-209 · 18-11-2004 10:46pm

Bleedin muppets. I can just see it now " Jaysus lads me car just went into the dock would ya fish it out", no need to put the stablisers down that'd take to long

mike65 · 18-11-2004 11:18pm

He has indeed! He doesn't have the pics in his though!

Thats cos he was thinking about 56kers Dave!

all I can say is

OH MIJ GOD *STRIJK*!!!!
Jeeezus dit maak je toch niet mee!
als je dit vertelt gelooft NIEMAND je!

I'll tack the threads together.

Mike.

JohnCleary · 18-11-2004 11:27pm

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!

BrianD3 · 18-11-2004 11:32pm

With the first truck look how close the stabiliser is to the edge of the quay wall :eek: A real Laurel and Hardy job.

In fairness the stabiliser probably needed to be that close otherwise the crane wouldn't have been able to reach the car.

BrianD3

OfflerCrocGod · 18-11-2004 11:34pm

Pure. Classic. Comedy. Genius.

mike65 · 18-11-2004 11:38pm

http://www.190revolution.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13688&highlight=

http://www.flexifoil.com/community/forums/showthread.php?t=56149&page=1&pp=15

Mike.

dahamsta · 19-11-2004 12:20am

interceptor wrote:

Eh, Adam its a Corolla van.

Ah feck, so it is. I was looking at the front lights: Is it just me or are they fierce like a Civics?

Be nice to Civics, 10,000 neds can't be wrong.

Ah they're a great car, I've just never fancied them meself and the Baseball Hat Brigade give them a terrible name for muppetry.

JohnCleary wrote:

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...

You can see the Gardaí leading this guy around the local primary school with blown up photos. "Don't do drugs kids." ROFL.

adam

unkel · 19-11-2004 12:08pm

mike65 wrote:

als je dit vertelt gelooft NIEMAND je!

:cool:

woosaysdan · 19-11-2004 12:17pm

excellent!!!

fjon · 19-11-2004 2:59pm

Anyone see the guy standing on top of the car in the very first picture? Looks kind of strange.

Silvera · 19-11-2004 8:07pm

I guess that the guy standing on the car is the tow truck driver - lashing the lifting chains/straps around the car.

Interesting that the car has no front reg plate ?
Could have fallen off I suppose.........or was he delivering a new car on trade plates - now that would be funny !

Prosta · 10-12-2004 11:21am

eBaum just posted this sequence on his site under funny pics but has a fake 11th pic. Compair it to pic 5

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/truckwater.html

Interceptor · 10-12-2004 1:05pm

Tsk, it was funny enough as it was - they went and overdid it. Damn yankees...

'c

impr0v · 10-12-2004 1:14pm

They should expect a strongly worded letter in the post from solicitors representing Michael Long & Co. Truck and Crane Hire.

1sttruth · 18-09-2010 5:38am

i'm from r-stone.i know who took the pictures.i know the driver of the car in fact i was in his car the night before that morning and what your saying is complete horse sh#t.