| Title: | Celt Notefile |
| Moderator: | TALLIS::DARCY |
| Created: | Wed Feb 19 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1632 |
| Total number of notes: | 20523 |
I have a somewhat funny similar border incident. I was travelling
with my friends on holidays, going from Donegal to Dublin and skirted
within 10 miles of the NI border. We came across a roadblock with
about 10 armed Gardai with sub machine guns. Apparently, somebody
was caught running guns the day before.
Well, the officer comes to our car and sees one fellow's body face-down
across the back seat. He had a bit too much to drink the night before
and looked like death warmed over. At this point all the other gardai
came over to take a look. Needless to say, my collection of ordinance
survey maps and WW2 binoculars didn't lessen their curiousity.
The officer asked my other friend, who was driving, where he had
been the night before. I guess under stress, the mind does strange
things, but for the life of him he couldn't remember where we had
been the night before (Donegal - where I had knocked the window
out of the pub by accident - that's another whole story)
Anyhow, I finally yelled out Donegal and after a few minutes
consultation, they let the damn yanks go. :-)
tomorrow - part 2 - window replacement made easy
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| 142.1 | and that's not all | CIVIC::JOHNSTON | force or guile could not subdue... | Mon Feb 23 1987 21:32 | 10 |
yesss .... in addition to 'remember where you've been' I have a
further word of advice:
No matter how 'personal' they get, when stopped by the constabulary,
never -- I repeat NEVER -- take off your shoe and hit one of them.
Annie
[who felt so bad, even her hair hurt when the incident occurred
and afterward wondered if she would ever see home again]
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| 142.2 | True Confessions .. | ENGGSG::BURNS | As The Hammer Strikes The Anvil | Thu Mar 05 1987 09:34 | 10 |
George: Tell us more about the "Broken Window" !!!!!
I bet you thought we forgot .
keVin
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| 142.3 | Donegal wasn't the same | TALLIS::DARCY | George @Littleton Mass USA | Thu Mar 05 1987 17:28 | 27 |
Well, we went to a pub down the road going south in Donegal town.
It was the only pub open on that particular Sunday. We were
sitting listening to a couple of fiddler players, one of which
was from Long Island, ever here an Irishman with a Long Island
accent?
Anyhow, after a few hours it started gettin' stuffy and hot inside.
And besides, us yanks weren't used to all the smoke. So I stupidly
decided to open up the picture window at the back of the pub. It
had one of those arms that you pop out and push out. Well I started
pushing and pushing and nothing happened. Of course my friends
started making comments about my physical strength. So I pushed
the arm as hard as I could, not wanting to back down, and maybe
it was those few extra pints but I pushed the whole windown right
out the frame.
There I am, hanging on to this bulky window, my arm practically
falling off, the fiddlers stopped fiddling, the barmen stopped
bartending, silence like one of those EF Hutton commercials, and
two of my friends wriggling with laughing convulsions.
Anyhow they had to get a ladder from out back to climb up and take
it from my arms, now two inches longer. Needless to say, the pub
cooled off real quick although I was still hot.
Part 3: Don't step off the Wedway people mover & Alice-n-Wonderland
Flying Teacups in Disneyworld while they are moving
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