Posted on 09/11/2017 7:58:14 AM PDT by Hojczyk
A Brit has become the first person to swim across the US's Hoover Dam
He escaped being dragged under during his 30-minute swim only because nine of its ten hydroelectric turbines were off.
Arron, 28, said: “It was so hot that as soon as we arrived I jumped in.
“Then I just thought, ‘Why not keep going?’
“I was sucked towards the wall and had to swim hard. At the other side I was exhausted. Then I heard police shout.”
The Hoover Dam, on the border of Arizona and Nevada, provides water and electricity for Las Vegas — but 275 people have died there in a decade.
But in the middle of a 37-hour booze bender, superhuman Arron, who fittingly has a Superman tattoo on his arm, paddled his way into the history books.
Forklift driver Arron, of Ruthin, North Wales, was handcuffed and fined £250.
The feat took him from Nevada to Arizona and took around half an hour
“I would say I was swimming about 50 to 100 metres from the wall of the dam and at one point I felt myself getting sucked towards it and had to swim away quite hard.
“When I got to the other side I was exhausted and had to sit down on the rocks. That was when I heard the police shouting ‘Oi, come here lad.’
“I was handcuffed and taken back to their office at the dam."
Cops watched in horror as Arron crossed the reservoir behind the iconic American structure – hailing him “the luckiest man alive”.
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“in the middle of a 37-hour booze bender, superhuman Arron”
Wow, just in the last 2 weeks I’ve been hearing about British travelers.
Once again, booze and drunkeness is mentioned.
Let him keep trying until he wins.
“But in the middle of a 37-hour booze bender...”
Well. It is near Las Vegas..........and at least he didn’t marry a stripper that he had just met. /s
Yeah, funnily enough they're called "trash screens," and they are part of those towers you see jutting up through the water on either side of the dam's center line on the deep side.
Maybe they should have been called "eurotrash screens."
I admire his liver - put that thing in a museum.
‘Oi, come here lad.’
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Got a chuckle out of imagining that coming out of the mouth of an American policeman.
Probably some kind of a screen to prevent debris and fish from entering. He would have been sucked down and pinned against the screen. He would have drowned. Someone would have had to swim down and pull his body off of the screen. What was left of it.
As a test of physical ability, I’d say he passed.
But he failed the Intelligence Test.
Wow! It’s a shame those genes for such good looks are accompanied by the let’s-act-stupid genes.
Mad dogs and Englishmen ...
I am guessing he would have been sucked under then gone thru the intake mesh and come out like hamburger. The fish would have been happy.
Ozzy was caught taking a whizz at the Alamo. The cop asked him if he liked it if someone did the same to Buckingham Palace. Ozzy replied “I don’t give a s—t, I don’t live there.”
He’s dam lucky that it didn’t suck him in like a Hoover.
I am sure many on Freepland,especially Vets,can say they dodged the Darwin Bullet. It makes me shudder thinking about exploits my buddies and I have done.
Well, no, I don't think that's what they shouted.
Darwin aside, that’s a pretty cool “What I did on my vacation” story.
In his defense, he probably had little or no idea of the danger he ran of becoming chopped liver.
And give the stripper his grandmother’s Holocaust ring.
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