Could we borrow a digger to, er, dig out our digger? BUILDERS DROP THEMSELVES IN IT HOLE LOT OF TROUBLE 1.Byline: BY MAGGIE BARRY Barry, Welsh Barri, town (1991 pop. 45,053) and port, Vale of Glamorgan, S Wales, on the Bristol Channel. Once a major coal-exporting port, its more diversified export products include cement, flour, and steel products. THESE builders got stuck in a rut yesterday when they dug a ditch... and then drove straight into it. The dozy do·zy adj. do·zi·er, do·zi·est Half asleep; drowsy. doz  i·ly adv. workmen tried to pull out the mini-digger, but after
several failed attempts they had to fetch help.
They were part of a team carrying out renovation work on the town hall in Kinghorn Kinghorn (Gaelic: Ceann Gronna) is a burgh in Fife, Scotland. A seaside resort with two beaches, Kinghorn Beach and Pettycur Bay, plus a fishing port, it stands on the north shore of the Firth of Forth opposite Edinburgh. , Fife, when they made the blunder. Resident Tom Brown, 75, said: "I was just going down to get my paper when I saw them using a digger in the small piece of ground outside the town hall. "They somehow managed to dig a hole then drive the digger into it. I have no idea how they managed to do that. "After a while one of them got in to give them some leverage but he almost got his foot trapped underneath." The work was being carried out by builders from Perth-based Cumming and Co. The company confirmed they had been working at Kinghorn town hall. A spokeswoman added: "I haven't heard of this happening before." CAPTION(S): OOPS! Driver struggles to get out of machine; DIG IT Builders desperately try to release the mini-digger |
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