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on May 26, 2018

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'The Plerick Incident', Sunday, July 6, 2014

On Sunday, July 6, 2014, a black Chrysler PT Cruiser, HY05 VWF, was witnessed lying berthed and becalmed in the Plerick, that basin of no-man’s land between the back of the Nethertown and the Uppertown of the Braehead. It is believed this was the first, and, to date, the only time a motor vehicle had been upon this ground. This probably not by choice but by common sense, in that there is no real entry or exit point to this urban howe for anything other than pedestrians and any arrival of carriages by way of the brae makes departure nigh on impossible without external aid. Therefore, any attempt at such mechanical manoeuvre would be a fruitless exercise, and total folly. In short, the action of a dullard. So it can be acknowledged, with little doubt, that the driver of this particular vehicle has achieved some status within the village. It would be fair to say not ‘celebrity status’ but a position, certainly at the time, more akin to that of ‘village idiot’. While ...

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