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found this today http://video.uk.msn.com/watch/video/dru ... /1j4uptxe6

i will hopefully avoid any sort of drama like this when i arrive tomorrow.

Funny!
My brother fell in my canal within the first 5 mins of arriving at my home when he came to visit..

veilige vakantie!

oh man... that was pretty funny to watch

The boat was just slightly overloaded.....

I love the slow motion at the end.lol

yeah the slow motion replay lmao

saw 3 people fall into the canal yesterday all off boats! so funny.

Tetanus shots anyone?

I hope people know the canals are the sewer system for houseboats...
Might as well take a dip in a sewage/waste treatment facility.

Nothing happy about falling into an Amsterdam canal...

Hahaha Sick!

Tons of cars each year end up at the bottom,A barge has to fish them out every now & then,KD.

Hey KD, "tons of cars"? WTF??? I don't think so! Maybe (read definitely) bicycles, not cars.
In addition, on the rare occasion they pull out a body. Statistics show that most were junkies. Sad regardless...

Nothing happy about falling into a canal... simply nasty...

have a feeling this will be me in 5 days after being floored by the damn gear..... im silly when it comes to things like this see thinking reins and rope are so gonna be in my hand lugage

Lol Boner a friend of mine fell in a canal with his car last year, while parking on a spot on the edge of the canal

Uncle Ron wrote:Hey KD, "tons of cars"? WTF??? I don't think so! Maybe (read definitely) bicycles, not cars.
In addition, on the rare occasion they pull out a body. Statistics show that most were junkies. Sad regardless...

Nothing happy about falling into a canal... simply nasty...

Well ive been told by local people that lots of cars DO end up at the bottom each year! dono about the numbers thou as i never asked,KD.

Kingdoc wrote:

Uncle Ron wrote:Hey KD, "tons of cars"? WTF??? I don't think so! Maybe (read definitely) bicycles, not cars.
In addition, on the rare occasion they pull out a body. Statistics show that most were junkies. Sad regardless...

Nothing happy about falling into a canal... simply nasty...

Well ive been told by local people that lots of cars DO end up at the bottom each year! dono about the numbers thou as i never asked,KD.

From research, I've only found a few articles mentioning cars being pushed or thrown, mostly about the Smarty craze in 2009. Search Amsterdam, Canals, Smart Car. As for bicycles, do the same. Approximately 36,000 bicycles a year are fished from the canals. Now that's tons... as compared to a handful of cars at best.

http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/707-amster ... car-canals
http://www.ghumakkar.com/2008/11/27/wal ... amsterdam/ "...around 18000 bikes are retrieved from the canals twice a year."

I'm bumping this specific topic because erroneous information is being stated without fact. Do cars end up in the canals, yes, but not tons, figure of speech for an enormous amount. A few a year does not make tons, unless the weight of the vehicles are what's being considered. Now, 36,000 bicycles in measurement of quantity, that's tons...

Fact checker anyone...?

Nothing happy about falling into a sewer system...

Uncle Ron wrote:

Kingdoc wrote:

Uncle Ron wrote:Hey KD, "tons of cars"? WTF??? I don't think so! Maybe (read definitely) bicycles, not cars.
In addition, on the rare occasion they pull out a body. Statistics show that most were junkies. Sad regardless...

Nothing happy about falling into a canal... simply nasty...

Well ive been told by local people that lots of cars DO end up at the bottom each year! dono about the numbers thou as i never asked,KD.

From research, I've only found a few articles mentioning cars being pushed or thrown, mostly about the Smarty craze in 2009. Search Amsterdam, Canals, Smart Car. As for bicycles, do the same. Approximately 36,000 bicycles a year are fished from the canals. Now that's tons... as compared to a handful of cars at best.

http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/707-amster ... car-canals
http://www.ghumakkar.com/2008/11/27/wal ... amsterdam/ "...around 18000 bikes are retrieved from the canals twice a year."

I'm bumping this specific topic because erroneous information is being stated without fact. Do cars end up in the canals, yes, but not tons, figure of speech for an enormous amount. A few a year does not make tons, unless the weight of the vehicles are what's being considered. Now, 36,000 bicycles in measurement of quantity, that's tons...

Fact checker anyone...?

Nothing happy about falling into a sewer system...

Yawn.