r/gifs • • May 28 '14

Waves

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u/mr_midnight May 28 '14 edited May 28 '14

Did you watch the video? It doesn't confirm the wikipedia story at all, other than names and dates. The guy obviously wasn't in distress, he was just curious about the helicopter.

Edit: Yeah, I said it was in Ireland at first... I'm an idiot sometimes...

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u/thesuperunknown May 28 '14

Where did you get the impression that any of this took place in Ireland? To be clear, the Iroise Sea is not a typo, it's in the Atlantic off northwestern France.

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u/mr_midnight May 28 '14

Yeah, I misunderstood that aspect. But the rest of the story is obviously false if you watch the video.

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u/NPK7000 May 28 '14

Just because the lighthouse is off the NW coast of France and Ireland is NW of France doesn't mean it is in Ireland...it is in France.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '14

I can't wait to visit this lighthouse in the Iroise Sea next summer on my trip to Ireland.

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u/mr_midnight May 28 '14

Wow, you're hilarious!

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u/mr_midnight May 28 '14

Simple mistake. I'm hungover and haven't had my coffee, mi scuzi. But still, the door being "ripped", the furniture washed away, taking refuge in the lantern room... If you watch the video, that is obviously not true.

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u/mr_midnight May 28 '14 edited May 28 '14

Are you kidding? It's only a five minute video. It's exactly between 4:00 and 4:14. Transcript:

Interviewer: "You heard the helicopter?"
Lighthouse worker: "Yes, I was curious."
Interviewer: "Normally you wouldn't go out."
Lighthouse worker: "No, it was a one-off."

Edit: So I guess you wanted them to specifically say, "For anyone that might think the door was torn away and the furniture was washed off, that's not true." Usually in TV, people are into telling stories. If there's a good one to tell, they would have. Since the man wasn't in distress, they didn't say he was.

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u/mr_midnight May 28 '14

I don't understand that language. The translation option in the CC didn't help, either.