Salvaging the cliff-wrecked car

Salvaging the cliff-wrecked car
Originally uploaded by redwelly.

Several weeks ago I heard the news-cum-hearsay that a car had been pushed off Consti. Apparently a Ford dealership had been broken into and five cars systematically joy-ridden and returned, before this Mondeo was taken to the top of Constitution Hill and pushed over the edge.

Despite a couple of half-hearted attempts to see the remains, I never spotted more than a piece of non-descript bumper on the cliffs.

But this evening the sound of a helicopter was heard, flying very low around the beach area. Natrally the response is to run outside with one's camera handy.

The insurance company (we suppose) has at last hired a helicopter salvage firm to remove the car wreckage from the base of the cliffs. So there, for all (around fifty more curious souls on the windswept prom) to see, was a curiously beautiful sight: A brand new, never-been-owned car, reduced by the sea to a bundle of rust, dangling forlornly below a small helicopter, over the beach of Aberystwyth.

It's still there (as of 11pm). Any takers?