Friday, September 22, 2006

It's all kicking off in Blackpool...

Very bizarre story today about a guy who was trying to commit suicide by jumping off Blackpool Pier. I don't know why he was, but can you imagine... It's all got too much for you. You're at your wits end. You see there is no other way to go, you really feel that it just can't get any worse... And then your rescuers arrive, and it's Lionel Blair and Alan Carr.











How would you react like that? It would either be enough to make you jump or just so surreal that it would perhaps wake you up to what the hell you are doing. Just goes to show that sometimes guardian angels come in the strangest forms.

My favourite quote from this story...

'He just kept saying he wanted to end it all,' said Blair. Then someone said it was Lionel Blair from TV and he did a double take.

And then in a separate incident, a man threatened to jump off a shop roof after arming himself with a vacuum cleaner. Police negotiators were drafted in to talk him down as he threatened to harm himself on top of the Bananarama fruit and vegetable store. After a few hours, he surrendered the vacuum cleaner but still refused to come down. Finally after 3 hours, Police talked him down.

No wonder it's the UK's top holiday destination. It's rock n roll from noon til night.

4 comments:

Rick said...

Mmm... perhaps sometime I'll tell you my own Bananarama-and-a-vacuum cleaner story... (when little zoe isn't listening in...).

Anonymous said...

I work with the military. Trust me, I've heard worse.

But, uh, some stories you really should keep to yourself.

Chez Guevara said...

Hehe, Bananarama and a vacuum cleaner sounds just like the sort of party I never get invited to.

Anonymous said...

This vacuum cleaner would'nt by any chance answer to the name of Henry, if so I know him well.