Ireland - 1
My daughter had a project on drumlins… hill formations left by the ice age.
There is a string of them just south of the Irish border with the north.
Driving westwards, just south of the border, we proceeded along the string.
At every Drumlin, we stopped and took soil samples.
North west, end of the string, Kinlough, was overtaken by a Garda car and forced to stop. A second Garda car stopped close behind us.
“What are you doing?”
“Collecting soil samples.” We said.
“Show me.”
“We thought you were planting bombs, we have dug up every hole you made!”
- Category: True Stories Told As Fiction
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Richard Hunt about 2 years ago
In case you don’t know, the Garda are the Irish police.
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Neville Hunt almost 2 years ago
Funny now, but must have been pretty scary at the time!
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Richard Hunt almost 2 years ago
Yes, it was, we were driving right along the border with the North and these two police cars literally made it impossible to move forwards or backwards. But they were convinced when they saw the samples and the extensive notes that Colette had made about each.
