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Helicopter Takes Out Row Of Portaloos

submitted by blackfox42

7 years 10 months 4 weeks ago

YT "Downwash from a Royal Navy Merlin helicopter takes out row of portable toilets whilst lifting field guns during preparation for the Ten Tors, challenge Okehampton, Dartmoor."

Thankfully nobody was using them at the time!
(source: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-36232084 )

9 Comments

PlayhousePals

That's ONE way to fertilize the field. Bonus points for the festive TP streamers.

jokingly says...

We now have a viable demonstration of what happens when SHTF.

jokingly says...

That was a shitty thing to do.

Imagine being the guy who's told to put them back in place.
Or the guy using them afterwards.

ant

Were there people in them?

*comedy *fail *wtf

Adding video to channels (Comedy, Fail, Wtf) - requested by ant.

According to this article they were vacant at the time

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-36232084

(I've edited the original description)

ant

Were there people in them?

Chaucer says...

This, weirdly, illustrates why rescue services (e.g. the Coastguard) will ask how many people the potential rescue might involve. Assuming the trouble is within the range of a smaller bird, they'll want to dispatch the smallest, most efficient helicopter for the lift, because the downwash of a big chopper's rotors does...well, this to the folks needing rescuing.

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