By Joe Johnson
A pickup truck crashed into a restaurant in downtown Athens Tuesday afternoon, and fortunately no one was injured.
The incident happened shortly before 4:30 p.m. when a 72-year-old man was failed to bring a GMC Denali to a stop while trying to park in front of The Globe at 199 North Lumpkin Street.
The resultant collision damaged the restaurants’s windows and brickwork.
The following message was posted Wednesday morning on The Globe’s Facebook page:
A beautiful morning! A limitless thank you to Zack and @character.built for being aggressively quick with their patch up last night. Words don’t express what several Guinness on the house might (they were off the clock at that point!).
We will be open today! Full service will resume upstairs (a great time to explore up there if you haven’t yet). Downstairs we can pour you a beer and you can pretend you are in Italy drinking cappuccino and smoking cigarettes and gossiping while some fellows build a new window bay. If you twist my arm maybe we will get you a diner burger. Ok maybe fish and chips but that’s it! Maybe globe chips but really that’s seriously all for downstairs. Maybe BLT. GO UPSTAIRS HOOLIGAN!
General manager Norman Scholz said that the incident marked a third time that The Globe had been struck by a vehicle.
There were parking mishaps involving the same parking space in August 2010 and August 2020, according to Scholz.
the third time is the charm !! LOLOL. Maybe time for a bigger curb, tasteflly done !
THERE'S NO FOOL LIKE AN
OLD FOOL!!!!