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This is the hilarious moment a determined drinker sprints to save his beer from a ‘dust devil’ that rampaged through the car park of a Pembrokeshire pub.
CCTV footage captured the moment a swirling cloud of dust moved towards The Begelly Arms in the village of Begelly on Sunday.
Two drinkers saw the whirlwind coming their way and rushed to take shelter indoors, but one gambler had other priorities.
The man, who is on his way to his car, immediately turns around and rushes to save his newly poured pint.
The footage was shared by the pub on Facebook with the caption ‘our own mini tornado at Begelly today’.
But the Met Office says the phenomenon was not a tornado, but a ‘dust devil’ – also known as a ‘willy willy’.
You can see the man sprinting to his pint on the sofa as the dust devil walks towards it (pictured)
Other punters ran to the pub for shelter (pictured)
The Met Office says the phenomenon is known as a ‘dust devil’ or a ‘willy willy’
People were quick to comment on the man rushing to save his pint, joking about his ‘priorities’ and calling him a ‘legend’.
One said: ‘I love how that man’s mind was focused on his pint.’
Another wrote: ‘He did the Morecambe and Wise dance as he ran through the tornado to save his pint!
“That legend who went there to save his drink.” another added.
The Met Office describes a dust devil as an ‘upward spiraling, dust-filled air vortex that can vary in height from a few meters to more than 1000 metres’.
Officials say a dust devil is forming from the ground, while a tornado is forming from the clouds and growing toward the ground.
Dust devils normally occur in the desert, last only a few minutes and are much less powerful or destructive than a tornado.
But the sight of it outside The Begelly Arms, near the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, scared customers.
Pub owner Peter Adams, 66, said the dust devil ‘came out of nowhere’ on a sunny and still day and lasted for about 30 seconds.
“My wife and I were sitting outside talking to one of our customers. We just sat there quietly having a drink under the canopy,” he said.
‘Then we heard a car alarm go off, looked around and… [the dust devil] is the first thing we saw.’
He added: ‘We didn’t know what to expect… we all quickly braced ourselves and put our hands on the tops of the drinks.
‘It touched reality [canopy] where we were sitting, and I think it must have stopped him.’
He explained that at first they thought it was a funnel cloud – which forms in the sky and turns into tornadoes when they reach the ground – as there had been a few sightings in the area previously.
He added: ‘I’ve never seen one like it. You see gusts of wind every now and then, but I’ve never seen one come across the parking lot like that, moving like it was radio controlled… It was quite strange to see.”