keo
8th September 2006, 12:26
Read this in the Dockers Dandy (Daily Record) yesterday, made me laugh!
PLANS FOR M8 BUCKIE TOWER
A RECOVERING alcoholic wants to make a 40ft tower from empty Buckfast bottles.
Terry Kerr plans to stand the landmark in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, as a warning against Scotland's binge drinking culture.
If it goes ahead, the tower will go up on Black Hill, overlooking the M8 near Airdrie.
Coat bridge has been dubbed Europe's Buckfast capital because of its high sales of the tonic wine.
Terry, 41, of Airdrie, said: "Our intention is not to create a monument to Buckfast, or to drink. It's to kill that image.
"If ever we want to get rid of the Buckfast image in Monklands, then this is it."
The landmark would have steel supports with the bottles held in metal baskets around it and a viewing platform near the top.
Terry plans to approach Nor th Lanarkshire Council for planning permission and funding.
But Central Scotland MSP Margaret Mitchell said: "I don't think this should be supported."
Fuckin hell Terry Kerr, all those years of hitting the bottle must have really fucked up your brain if you think building a tower out of empty buckfast bottles is going to give a warning against binge drinking! Unbelievable!
PLANS FOR M8 BUCKIE TOWER
A RECOVERING alcoholic wants to make a 40ft tower from empty Buckfast bottles.
Terry Kerr plans to stand the landmark in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, as a warning against Scotland's binge drinking culture.
If it goes ahead, the tower will go up on Black Hill, overlooking the M8 near Airdrie.
Coat bridge has been dubbed Europe's Buckfast capital because of its high sales of the tonic wine.
Terry, 41, of Airdrie, said: "Our intention is not to create a monument to Buckfast, or to drink. It's to kill that image.
"If ever we want to get rid of the Buckfast image in Monklands, then this is it."
The landmark would have steel supports with the bottles held in metal baskets around it and a viewing platform near the top.
Terry plans to approach Nor th Lanarkshire Council for planning permission and funding.
But Central Scotland MSP Margaret Mitchell said: "I don't think this should be supported."
Fuckin hell Terry Kerr, all those years of hitting the bottle must have really fucked up your brain if you think building a tower out of empty buckfast bottles is going to give a warning against binge drinking! Unbelievable!