Delivery Van Becomes Kerris Bay’s Newest Tourist Attraction

A blind faith in technology leaves an online grocery order perfectly wedged between two 18th-century stone cottages.

There are several unwritten rules to surviving life in Kerris Bay: never trust a clear morning sky, never make eye contact with a gull while holding food, and never, under any circumstances, believe a GPS when it tells you a commercial vehicle can fit down Cobbler’s Lane.

An overly optimistic supermarket delivery driver learned this the hard way on Wednesday afternoon, confidently steering a large van into a passage originally designed for a single, moderately athletic medieval donkey.

The satisfying crunch of folding wing mirrors was reportedly heard as far away as the slipway.

The van remained perfectly wedged between the granite walls for nearly four hours, creating an impromptu roadblock that forced frustrated locals to divert their walking routes through the pub garden—a tragedy from which several residents took a very long time to recover.

While the driver sat in the cab reconsidering his career trajectory, helpful onlookers offered a highly unhelpful mix of synchronized teeth-sucking and creative advice involving dish soap.

The vehicle was eventually extracted with millimeters to spare, leaving behind two slightly buffed stone walls and a family at the end of the lane wondering if their frozen fish fingers would ever be delivered.