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Trapped on the Big Wheel in Galway

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  • 17-11-2017 9:33pm
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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    It seems people have been stuck on the big wheel in Galway for over an hour. It seized up just after the Christmas lights were turned on. A bit of craic for older people perhaps but I doubt any young children will be overly happy.

    Would you be confident enough to step out of the cabin on to a fire ladder?

    Panic, enjoy the view, or just settle down to await rescue?
    https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2017/1117/920986-big-wheel-galway/


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    Ewan Hoosarmi
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    Dulce Hissing Lobotomy wrote: »
    It seem people have been stuck on the big wheel in Galway for over an hour. It seized up just after the Christmas lights were turned on. A bit of craic for older people perhaps but I doubt any young children will be overly happy.

    Would you be confident enough to step out of the cabin on to a fire ladder?

    Panic, enjoy the view, or just settle down to await rescue?

    The fire ladder sounds like a bit of craic to be homest.


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    Hammer89
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    Ewan Hoosarmi wrote: »
    The fire ladder sounds like a bit of craic to be homest.

    Keep your hands on the sides.


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    Ewan Hoosarmi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Ewan Hoosarmi


    Hammer89 wrote: »
    Keep your hands on the sides.

    Whose sides. LOL


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    Arghus
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    Get them feckin' crunchies out of the car.


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    Tommy Ferguson
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    Wouldn’t you be in some crank op if you were stuck up on it.


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    Greybottle
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    Cynic in me says a couple of them are getting advice off their solicitors while they're up there.


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    cbreeze
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    Greybottle wrote: »
    Cynic in me says a couple of them are getting advice off their solicitors while they're up there.

    Counsellors are on their way!


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    Hammer89
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    If we could have a nurse please to the Tunnel of Goats. Thank you.


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    whoopsadoodles
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    Aw I thought the OP was going to be posting from the big wheel.


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    shakencat
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    jeez id be freezing! haha

    thats all id be worrying about!


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Tommy Ferguson wrote: »
    Wouldn’t you be in some crank op if you were stuck up on it.

    I'd have no bother. I've had more challenging experiences than that in my day. I'm not sure what being 'in some crank' means though.


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    Spanish Eyes
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    Now in fairness who the feck would go up in one of those things in the freezing cold.

    Theresa Mannion will be on their case!


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    whoopsadoodles wrote: »
    Aw I thought the OP was going to be posting from the big wheel.

    I'd have been on it had it been near me but Galway's a bit far for me. I'd also never have thought to post from there had I been.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    shakencat wrote: »
    jeez id be freezing! haha

    thats all id be worrying about!

    That's the first thing Mrs S said. :)


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    RobbingBandit
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    Ironically I'd be blaring Proud Mary on my phone.

    Big wheel keeps on turning, Rollin Rollin Rollin on the River. :D


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    BorneTobyWilde
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    I bet they were wheelie wheelie mad when they got off .


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    Asus X540L
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    Greybottle wrote: »
    Cynic in me says a couple of them are getting advice off their solicitors while they're up there.

    I imagine it now "your honour, my client is having nightmares,cannot go out in public anymore, has not been able to eat pizzas or pancakes since the incident, has had to give up on their lifelong dream of pursuing trigonometry"


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    They are all down now. Three hours for some of them. It was 'ratcheted' down cabin by cabin. I would have preferred to climb down the ladder an hour or two earlier, myself.


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    Tommy Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 93 ✭✭Tommy Ferguson


    It was a major opportunity for some blasting of urine if one was in top cabin.


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    Mint Sauce
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    Is Eileen Magnier or Teresa Mannion up in the Cherry Picker yet?


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    Spanish Eyes
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    That's the Insurdance fecked for the suppliers forever more.

    Watch this space for the trauma compo.


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    Ipso
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    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Ironically I'd be blaring Proud Mary on my phone.

    Big wheel keeps on turning, Rollin Rollin Rollin on the River. :D

    Or Journey's Wheel in the Sky. John Lennon's Watching the Wheels wouldn't be appropriate as the wheel isn't moving.
    or you could blast Ring of Fire at them to scare them.


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