That’s pretty incredible. Just the planning and the timing alone.
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This sounds too good to be true, but I promise you it happened. We went to Standen, a National Trust property, yesterday. The entrance to the house is in a courtyard. The following link has photos - in a couple you can just about make out an archway on the far left corner of the photo - that’s how you access the courtyard.
Yesterday the archway was all but blocked by a - I would say “lorry”, perhaps “semi” in US English - which we had to squeeze past to get in. What had happened, we were told, was that it had just dropped off a delivery of “biomass” (wood chip for heating). Loaded, it could just barely make it through the archway. Unladen, it was a smidge higher and now unable to get back out. When we walked in, they were letting air out of the tires (!) to lose some height; on our way out, it had got out of the courtyard, and a commercial breakdown van was pumping air back into them. I shit you not - you can’t make this stuff up. An awful lot of people had a laugh at that.
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Actually, I remember that as a lateral thinking exercise from decades ago. A truck is stuck under a bridge until a 5-year old kid suggested deflating the tires.
I always wondered where that song came from. Did not expect it to be coming from two grown adults! I hope they make out later.