When 46-year old Andy Johnson of Lancashire, England decided to take his jet ski out for a spin on the flooded roads in his village, he didn’t expect a video taken of him to end up going viral on the Internet. The flooded roads of Lancashire were just too tempting of a playground for Andy to turn down. He was filmed racing underneath a railway bridge before doing a U-turn by a bus stop in the floodwater on Euxton Lane, near Chorley. Since being posted on Facebook, the video has been viewed more than 114,000 times!
The footage was captured by Kieron McLaughlin, 46, who was canoeing down the road on New Year’s Eve. “’My house backs onto that water. My wife said it sounded like they were pumping the water but when she looked, she saw the guy on the jet-ski. I went out and filmed him and the video has gone viral”, shares Kieron.
“I knew where it was flooded and it looked safe enough to jet-ski, so I was in there for about an hour. I decided to get into Euxton village because I knew it was deep enough to ski in, but wouldn’t be near homes which had been destroyed by flooding like in the village of Croston. It was just a quick blast and while I know some people weren’t too happy about it. I’ve seen people saying the video could get them to sort it out quicker. The council or whoever it is involved in sorting it out might see this,” says Andy who can’t help but point out the slow response to deal with the flooded roadways.
