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Postby XFool » May 17th, 2023, 6:01 pm

Stolen car found on top of metal drum at roundabout in Annan

BBC News

A stolen car has been found stuck on top of a metal drum at a roundabout in the south of Scotland.

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Postby Hallucigenia » May 17th, 2023, 8:24 pm

That's nothing, Cambridge students once put an Austin Seven on top of a 70' building :
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/c ... d-17836295

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Re: Top car!

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Postby Mike4 » May 17th, 2023, 8:27 pm

Hallucigenia wrote:That's nothing, Cambridge students once put an Austin Seven on top of a 70' building :
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/c ... d-17836295


That was you, wasn't it?

C'mon, own up....

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Re: Top car!

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Postby Hallucigenia » May 17th, 2023, 8:31 pm

Mike4 wrote:
Hallucigenia wrote:That's nothing, Cambridge students once put an Austin Seven on top of a 70' building :
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/c ... d-17836295


That was you, wasn't it?

C'mon, own up....


Before my time - by a distance <g>

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Re: Top car!

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Postby bungeejumper » May 18th, 2023, 9:13 am

That car is sitting at a pretty unsafe angle on that drum. And hey, what if it had crumpled under the load, as cans are inclined to do? I'm just shuddering to think of the personal risk to the idiots who put it there.

And I speak as somebody who, in my student days, once helped to lower a grand piano off a four foot high stage. (Somebody had left it up there, and it was in the way of our play rehearsal. :D ) About half a tonne, and ten of us to lower it. One slip, and we could/would very likely have had a fatality. :shock:

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