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delly

Found this as i was clearing out some emails from my inbox. Was going to post it in humour or AH, but think as its a real life motoring Incident, it would get better coverage here.

Litcagral

Posted before - it's staged.

skibum

I remember seeing this before and it looks pretty real to me. Do you have any links to back up if it is staged or not?

delly

Sorry if its a repost, but i doubt that its staged.

Owen

It wasn't staged, I'm in the Motor Trade and this eMail did the rounds before, the Dealer was identified. Can't remember who though ...

Litcagral

skibum wrote:

I remember seeing this before and it looks pretty real to me. Do you have any links to back up if it is staged or not?

No but I thought it was real and was disappointed when several people posted to say that it was set-up. There are 'give-away' clues apparently but I can't remember what they are now.

maidhc

How did the guy in the brown jumper get to the other side of the truck so quicky?

Whether it is staged or not is irrelevant though. Those things can and do happen very regularly with cranes and telescopics.

Something similar happened me before when tipping a trailer on a slight hill, a spring snapped when it was tipped and it just went over on it's side. Thankfully there was no one near and the drawbar snapped off rather than taking me and the tractor over.

Keedowah

Heard this happened in Roundstone in Galway.

The email that did the rounds has another photoshoped pic with the second truck going into the drink aswell.

elexes

has to be staged it was in the national enquirer before

Owen

Roundstone, that was it. From what I remember, the recovery company involved couldn't live it down for months afterwards!

drdre

omg , thats so funny.hope the people involved were not injured.

layke

Litcagral wrote:

No but I thought it was real and was disappointed when several people posted to say that it was set-up. There are 'give-away' clues apparently but I can't remember what they are now.

A girl I used to work with knew the photographer, it ain't fake.

drdre

layke wrote:

A girl I used to work with knew the photographer, it ain't fake.

it looks so real,i wouldnot think its fake

BnA

No. It's not Staged

There was a follow on to this set of pictures that appeared a few months later that showed the big green truck toppling in while lifting out the small red one. That bit was fake alright but all the ones shown above are completely legit.

Alkers

Definately real and it was in Roundstone. Know a good few people who were there to witness it.

Calibos

BnA wrote:

No. It's not Staged

There was a follow on to this set of pictures that appeared a few months later that showed the big green truck toppling in while lifting out the small red one. That bit was fake alright but all the ones shown above are completely legit.

The above is correct

Abelloid

Yes it is definitely staged, a few lads were having a lunchtime pint and thought wouldn't it be funny if.......................:rolleyes:

It happened in Galway a couple of years ago and spawned hundreds of photoshopped variations which made the original pictures seem faked, but it was big news at the time.

Why don't you ring them and ask?

http://www.goldenpages.ie/search.ds?newSearch=true&what=walsh%27s+recovery&where=&x=10&y=17

http://www.goldenpages.ie/search.ds?newSearch=true&what=michael+long&where=&x=26&y=7

Abelloid

Just found this -

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp

It was Roundstone.

mike65

Yeah this ws posted up about 12-18 months back, twas funny the once!

Mike.