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If I remember correctly re the Rose Dougdale failed attempt which was on Strabane police station, the bomb (milk churn) did get stuck when over the "target" but was dropped into the river Mourne about 400/500yds past the station and did not explode.
I was working in an engineering shop adjacent to the station and though it was lunchtime I was inside on a homer while most of the lads were out playing football in the yard. They told me that they had just seen a yellow helicopter trying to bomb the police station to which I replied thinking it a wind up "pull the other one, a yellow submarine I would believe but a yellow helicopter".
It was only later when I saw the news that I realised what had happened.
We were lucky on two counts that day as a few seconds earlier it could have been on the workshop and a few seconds later it would have been a housing estate on the other side of the river.
Solar