Foot Loose and Fancy Free in the Park.
Ms Raccoon still has her head firmly embedded in another case and it has become obvious that it won’t be ready for publication today – so here is a little light relief to keep you amused in your tea-break.
You may have heard that in February, Bristol police were out with cadaver dogs in Weston Park following the discovery of one lone left foot.
Come July, and another left foot turned up in the same area. It only took our wonderful constabulary a few days to announce that they didn’t belong to the same body…
August, and yet another foot turned up – all three feet within the same yard…(sorry, couldn’t resist it).
This time the police are being more cautious and have not revealed whether they are looking for a three legged cadaver, the remains of a dancer with two left feet, or three separate bodies.
However, in New York, another park has yielded a spare left foot.
It appeared last night, and was at one point attached to a statue created by a ‘guerilla art movement’.
Purporting to be a statue of presidential candidate Donald Trump, it looked more like Liberace to me – but then so does Trump.
Within hours, parks officials had removed the statue on the grounds that it was ‘unattended property’. Similar statues appeared in parks in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland and Seattle. Someone had gone to a lot of trouble…
Last word must go to New York Parks department which issued a statement.
NYC parks department on naked Trump statue: “NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small.”
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) August 18, 2016
Enjoy yourself in the comments, play nicely, I’m going back into the Hansard records…
- Ho Hum
August 19, 2016 at 11:59 am -
Thank goodness! He won’t be wearing a kilt…..
- Joe Public
August 19, 2016 at 12:13 pm - suffolkgirl
August 19, 2016 at 1:15 pm -
It’s brilliant! Id like a mini version to attach to my rear view mirror!
- Ted Treen
August 19, 2016 at 2:39 pm -
Who decides whether an erection is permitted or unpermitted? And how much advance notice do they require?
- The Blocked Dwarf
August 19, 2016 at 3:40 pm -
And how much advance notice do they require?
24 hours if your name is John O’Neill (Apologies to John if he reads here, I would not want to make light of the appalling makes-you-ashamed-to-be-British injustice he has suffered…but that one was just too good to miss!)
- JuliaM
August 19, 2016 at 5:46 pm -
Well, I lol’d….
- The Blocked Dwarf
August 19, 2016 at 6:35 pm -
Unfortunately the judge didn’t but “He (the Judge)was particularly critical of the “disproportionate” requirement for Mr O’Neill, 45, to give a day’s notice before starting sexual contact with a new partner.” So perhaps the Amendments will allow JoN the bare (did you see what I did there) minimum of a ‘normal’ sex life….
- The Blocked Dwarf
- JuliaM
- The Blocked Dwarf
- decnine
August 19, 2016 at 5:55 pm -
Reminds me of a (possibly apocryphal) headline in the Oxford Mail some time in the early 60s. “Councillor fights erection in High Street”.
- Wigner’s Friend
August 19, 2016 at 7:40 pm -
Talking of left feet, I recall sometime in the mid 70s during the “troubles” in NI, there was an explosion in an IRA bomb factory and although only 3 bodies were identified there were 4 left feet found. During the press conference, when asked what actions the army were taking, the press officer said they were looking for a man with a limp. Said press officer was on the next flight back to his regiment.
- Ho Hum
August 20, 2016 at 1:30 am -
@ Wigner’s Friend
August 19, 2016When they find the 4th this time, he, or she, will be a shoe-in for Strictly
- Mudplugger
August 20, 2016 at 8:35 am -
No doubt doing the foxtrot to sole-music.
- Mudplugger
August 20, 2016 at 8:36 am -
Keeping in-step.
- Mudplugger
August 20, 2016 at 8:37 am -
Tongues wagging.
- Mudplugger
August 20, 2016 at 8:37 am -
Down on their uppers.
- Mudplugger
August 20, 2016 at 8:38 am -
This is the last.
- Mudplugger
- Ho Hum
August 20, 2016 at 8:29 am -
@ Anna Raccoon
August 20, 2016They’ve got their own theme song, though…
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