Thursday 23 September 2010

Sometimes you've got to scroll down for the best bit...

But I'll save you the bother. From The Daily Mail:

... a barman at the Bugle, who refused to give his name, said: 'I had nothing to do with [setting fire to some books]. I smelt the smoke so I went outside to put it out. They took my mobile phones, some empty boxes the phones had been in, some CDs and DVDs... and all the tea towels.

PS, apparently this amounts to "inciting racial hatred". Doesn't the BBC constantly broadcast footage of people in Islamic countries burning effigies of western politicians and/or flags of western countries?

UPDATE: far be it for a responsible blogger like to make it easy for people to track down the video on YouTube but it's worth watching for the classic line "Has anybody got a match?"

3 comments:

JuliaM said...

Were they perhaps looking for DNA, since they had towels round their heads in the video?

If so, what an absolutely STUNNING waste of resources.

Mark Wadsworth said...

JM, maybe?

VFTS I've no idea what race, but whatever it is, they appear to be coming last.

Bayard said...

"PS, apparently this amounts to "inciting racial hatred"."

Even if it did, and it doesn't, as VFTS points out, the people responsible are those who fabricated a national news story out of a drunken prank.