tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post8294109628850403259..comments2024-02-13T10:20:04.888+00:00Comments on David Hepworth's blog: Black sabbathDavid Hepworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973053694541321308noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-54628136546746809032008-05-06T11:49:00.000+01:002008-05-06T11:49:00.000+01:00Danny Baker had a recent caller who said he'd been...Danny Baker had a recent caller who said he'd been on the tube when a 'hard looking bloke' started to make a roll-up. He finished it, flicked his lighter on & then faced down all the disapproving starers by pulling out a cardboard bog roll cylinder from his pocket, aiming it at them, one by one and making a trigger-pulling motion with his fingers. No-one said anything. When the caller got off, the nut said to him, "didn't fool you mate, did I?". <BR/>Danny asked him why - "cos I'm an ex-boxer" was the answer.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14982707315074309733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-12089294616330453752008-05-06T11:23:00.000+01:002008-05-06T11:23:00.000+01:00I shared my - usually silent, commuter-filled - jo...I shared my - usually silent, commuter-filled - journey with a Electric Soup-swilling, ranting, sweating Scotsman the other morning. He wasn't threatening <I>per se</I>, but he did make every muscle tense in that carriage purely because his behaviour was so abnormal in that context. When he started talking about how he'd been in prison for decapitating the man who killed his sister (at a fairground, no less) I mentally applauded his move into hilarious self-parody.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338991522618100015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-56874258102538730352008-05-05T22:54:00.000+01:002008-05-05T22:54:00.000+01:00Oh, please don't waste your sympathy on me. I reck...Oh, please don't waste your sympathy on me. I reckon one aggressive loon in forty years is pretty good odds. How many people live in London? The overwhelming majority of them are perfectly civil. I don't see any regime that could be expected to do anything about the odd one who isn't. Mugging's a different thing altogether.David Hepworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03541581777824775884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-82817482469455279472008-05-05T21:12:00.000+01:002008-05-05T21:12:00.000+01:00don't worry boris will have a copper on every carr...don't worry boris will have a copper on every carriage and this sort of thing will be a thing of the past.Seriously sorry you had a shit journeyBLTPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06564846497205095201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-17337866919829969312008-05-05T20:53:00.000+01:002008-05-05T20:53:00.000+01:00And that's the trouble with telling people to be g...And that's the trouble with telling people to be green, leave your car behind, and take public transport. My parents, both pensioners, would never, ever take public transport precisely because they're convinced that something appalling would happen to them.<BR/><BR/>I can't even drive, so I take public transport in London every day. I was mugged at knifepoint on the tube twenty years ago, nothing since, touch wood. It takes a while to get over it. I was nervous on the tube for a long time afterwards.<BR/><BR/>JohnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-30442205405225749522008-05-05T17:56:00.000+01:002008-05-05T17:56:00.000+01:00Exactly the sort of incident that my own CEO dread...Exactly the sort of incident that my own CEO dreads and which makes her reluctant to travel into/around London at all let alone at night. <BR/><BR/>Hopefully that's you had your "30-year gust" and you're not too spooked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com