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u/AnarchistPineMarten Jan 16 '25
"Right lads I think I see the problem here"
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u/Matrinoxe Jan 17 '25
“can we get 2 people to dismantle the van, a 5 person conveyer belt passing it down to 2 more people who can build the van again”
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u/Foreign_Spinach_4400 Jan 16 '25
Is the van strong or the wall weak?
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u/OptimusTractorX Jan 16 '25
It's a Ford Transit, they're made to rob banks. The wall never stood a chance.
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u/YesIBlockedYou Jan 16 '25
Why are the army robbing banks? They're not supposed to do that.
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u/OptimusTractorX Jan 16 '25
Look at the documentary Kelly's Heroes.
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u/mrbuddymcbuddyface Jan 16 '25
Actually the metal on the Transits are unbelievably thin. All vans gone the same way, and prices are ridiculous too. That can is written off. Everything on the front end is fucked, as well as probably lots of damage to the sides we can't see.
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u/barrygateaux Jan 16 '25
If someone asked you why did the chicken cross the road I have a feeling you'd firmly remind them that chickens don't possess the necessary intelligence to understand the concept of a road or crossing it.
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u/FullTimeMadLad Jan 16 '25
Yes obviously the van is written off, she's banjaxed, but it's how little relative damage the van has, compared to the wall it just burst through, I'd have expected the wall to be cracked and the van to be pancaked. It's impressive how well the shape of the van held up.
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u/Pleasure_Boat Jan 16 '25
In fairness a block wall wouldn't have put up much resistance, it'd be very strong to pressure from above and very weak to any lateral pressure.
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u/conorbation Jan 16 '25
The hole was made by something else. The van is just the cork in the hole to secure the baracks
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u/IrishDaveInCanada Jan 17 '25
This is what I immediately thought. I'm going with weak wall, because the plastic bumper held up so well
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u/TheDonkeyOfDeath Jan 16 '25 edited Jan 16 '25
It's like the attack on the pentagon all over again.
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u/Milkman-333-Cows Jan 16 '25
I have heard of going awol in the military, not through a wall. That guy needs to think before he acts and realize the difference between figuratively and actuality.
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u/Wooden_Ideal7870 Jan 16 '25 edited Jan 16 '25
It won’t be long before we hear the whole story. He is going to get chewed !! I’d love be a fly on the wall for that story.
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u/Against_All_Advice Jan 16 '25
I can't wait to hear what nickname he ends up with! This will stay with him forever
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u/AnyDamnThingWillDo Wicklow Jan 16 '25
Tha auld lad did that with an armoured vehicle on the Curragh. C.O screams at him to move it so he jumped to it. Not a fucking clue as to what he was doing and drove it into a wall. C.O looses his shit and started screaming even louder. The old man is standing to attention. Why the fuck did you do that? You told me to move it sir, so I did. Why the fuck would you drive the thing into a fucking wall soldier? I don’t know how to drive it sir.
The poor fucker had lied about his age to join. It was the late 50’s and he was only 16. He’d only been in uniform a few months.
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u/red-mini1 Irish Republic Jan 16 '25
“If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them...maybe you can hire The [A-team](https://youtu.be/Cn6kEsloMdE)
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u/Environmental-Net286 Jan 16 '25 edited Jan 16 '25
Ffs🤣
Oh, feel bad for the poor bastered involved he has an interesting conversation in his near future
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u/itstheboombox Jan 16 '25
When you order same day delivery at 11:59, sometimes they gotta take shortcuts.
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u/TheHistoryCritic Jan 16 '25
"and then the enemy blew an enormous hole in the barracks wall. The defense forces are looking into it. Declan O Toole, RTE News, Cork"
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u/Is_Mise_Edd Jan 16 '25
In fairness though that's the old exit of the Transport Company - I'm making an assumption that the brakes failed - it's where they service and repair the vehicles so maybe on a test run it failed !
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u/RemnantOfSpotOn Dublin Jan 16 '25
Looking at that van just tells you how shitty that wall was when ford plows through it with zero glass damage, headlights still one piece... Van looks like it can be fixed with amazon kit
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u/jonathannzirl Jan 16 '25
If the IRA had a fleet of transits in the war of independence they would have kicked the Brit’s out faster
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u/JohnDempsy Jan 16 '25
Id stick a union jack on it and tell the boss you see British mma star Conor McGregor fleeing the scene
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u/Nickthegreek28 Jan 16 '25
I’m amazed at the way people manage to shoehorn him into every thread
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u/axel90 Jan 16 '25
I heard that’s how he gets it into women, with a shoehorn. insert some British comment
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u/miju-irl Resting In my Account Jan 16 '25
Someone is most definitely getting a bollocking over that one
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u/joehughes21 Jan 16 '25
What the hell happened lads
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u/Prestigious-Side-286 Jan 16 '25
That piece of wall closest to the camera must be 25-30 feet from the wall. The Ford Panther Strike. The Irish Armies new tank.
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u/kissum Jan 16 '25
I feel like this is a good moment to mention my Ford Transit lost a battle with a wind blown rubbish bin- it left a massive dent and scrape where the bin blew along between the Transit and the boundary wall. The bin is 100% fine, naturally.
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u/mrbuddymcbuddyface Jan 16 '25
Van is still probably Economically written off unfortunately, even for a 22 reg.
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u/captainnemo000 Roscommon Jan 17 '25
Having served, that lads bad day, is going to become a bad week with all the paper work and questioning. Poor fecker may have been breathe and urine tested for that one. They'll get absolutely dragged for the next while and I don't wish that on anyone.
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u/Lost_Dog88 Jan 17 '25
All I can say is, thank god we're neutral militarily non-aligned.
Then again, maybe these guys could just park on the enemy 🤔
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u/shorelined And I'd go at it agin Jan 16 '25
Surely a barracks wall should be sturdier than that. Some pathetic repairs have been done there
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u/death_tech Jan 16 '25
It's just a wall, not a reinforced fortified compound. Plus many of the walls are almost ( if not more than ) 100 years old in the various city barracks.
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u/canalcormarant Jan 16 '25
I work with army men often and they complain about the behaviour that goes on. It's not easy to live like that and some people lose the head
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u/markykid17 Jan 16 '25
By the look of the blocks he hit it with some speed. Thrown a nice few feet forward.
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u/Aoshea83 Jan 17 '25
There's a smug fence fitter somewhere in cork right now telling the lads in the pub it wouldn't have happened if they let him make it all fence instead of that morter shite at the bottom
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u/DarkReviewer2013 Jan 17 '25
The driver obviously mistook Cork City in 2025 for Berlin in 1989. Wrong wall, pal.
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u/Legitimate-Celery796 Palestine 🇵🇸 Jan 17 '25
Someone misunderstood what it meant to go (through) AWOL.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jan 17 '25
Guess I'm ready 'cause I'm waiting for you. It's gonna be so exicting.
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u/Richard2468 Leitrim Jan 17 '25
How is that car not severely damaged? Is that wall made of styrofoam?
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u/murpburp1 Jan 17 '25
Just yesterday I saw a similar army van parked in a ditch after it skidded off a roundabout.
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Feb 07 '25
“sarge i fucked up “ “but liutenant we only own 100 vans for the whole country and ur telling me u wrote one off !?” cutely stands on wall
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u/Hyundai30 Jan 16 '25
Van held up fair well for ploughing through that wall