M7 this afternoon

youcrazyjesus! · 30-10-2011 03:46PM #1

There's an extremely dangerous situation on the M7 outside Limerick heading east. There are a couple of dozen vehicles parked in the hard shoulder and a large crowd in an adjacent field watching standing around digging equipment.

Cars are pulling in and out like it's a 50 zone

Anybody know why the hell they're there?

Not a Guard in sight of course.

101sean · 30-10-2011 03:53PM

Sounds like the charity event to recover a 13T O&K excavator buried for years in Annaholty Bog.

101sean · 30-10-2011 03:56PM

Here you go, Annaholty Excavator Challenge http://www.nenaghguardian.ie/news-detail.php?article=1YQGV5

youcrazyjesus! · 30-10-2011 04:00PM

There'll be another charity event happening pretty soon to raise funds for someone paralysed in an accident along there I think.

It's incredibly dangerous, they're hidden around a bend and puing directly onto the road from standing start.

Amtmann · 30-10-2011 04:12PM

youcrazyjesus! wrote: »

There'll be another charity event happening pretty soon to raise funds for someone paralysed in an accident along there I think.

It's incredibly dangerous, they're hidden around a bend and puing directly onto the road from standing start.

Did you call it in to the Guards?

hi5 · 30-10-2011 06:23PM

Bog ignorance:(

-Corkie- · 30-10-2011 07:40PM

Tremelo wrote: »

Did you call it in to the Guards?

Remember i sent you the link to that..

Guards would do sfa about it..

charlemont · 30-10-2011 07:49PM

hi5 wrote: »

Bog ignorance:(

True.

Stinicker · 31-10-2011 04:47AM

Only in Ireland would something like this occur, imagine on the German Autobahn, the locals first of all wouldn't dream of parking on the side of a Motorway like this and if they did the Bundespolizei would quickly sort them out. In Ireland you have genuinely thick ignorant people (look at the 500k Gallagher voters) who think nothing of parking on a motorway and the attitude of oh, shur its for charity shur till be grand will prevail.

101sean · 31-10-2011 03:41PM

It seems the Guards did call twice, maybe they should have stayed or stopped it. The whole exercise apparantly was a H&S mess according to one spectator.

-Corkie- · 31-10-2011 05:16PM

101sean wrote: »

It seems the Guards did call twice, maybe they should have stayed or stopped it. The whole exercise apparantly was a H&S mess according to one spectator.

Did they get it out after Sean??

101sean · 31-10-2011 06:38PM

Yes, they did. Mostly cut up on site before being taken away.

irishguy · 05-11-2011 06:00PM

This was a complete joke I nearly crashed into some idiot pulling in to have a look there were about 25 cars pulled in and other cars slowing down to 50Km to have a look. So stupid!!!

Brennans Row · 07-11-2011 12:47AM

If I’m interpreting this photo (Limerick Leader) correctly, then the cars parked at the crash barrier are parked on the M7 and their owners are the onlookers to this scene.

Talk about being blissfully ignorant! :eek:

M7 this afternoon

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