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- From: S.S.B.Glover@bradford.ac.uk (SSB GLOVER)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: humor in England
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.114613.2734@bradford.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 11:46:13 GMT
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- Bruce Munro (bocmunro@bnr.co.uk) wrote:
-
- : If you take your car into Central London that's your look out. Use the
- : Underground, far more convenient, and full of friendly people.
-
- As a non-motorist, I'm afraid I *still* have to take issue with this.
-
- There's a rather nasty little scam I ran across on the Underground. It went
- something like this...
-
- I was sitting peaceably minding my own business when a woman asked me if I
- could change a fiver. Naively believing London to be full of friendly people
- I open my (zipped) pocket (I tend to wear a vest-of-pockets to confuse
- pickpockets normally) and check. I didn't have the change. Apologise to the
- lady and go back to my book...
-
- A few minutes later, just before Oxford Circus, this woman suddenly loudly
- accuses me of having grabbed her money and stuffed it in my pocket. A rather
- large gentleman (hitherto unconnected with her), then grabs me and holds me
- while she opens my pocket, grabs MY money and leaps off the train...
-
- I point out to the "gentleman" what he's done and he apologises profusely.
- He agrees to come with me at the next stop to find a guard or BT cop so we
- can lodge a description of the thieving bitch...
-
- We get off at the next stop and are heading for the elevator in the normal
- crush of "friendly people" when he suddenly does a 180 and heads for the
- other platform -- presumably to rejoin his accomplice...
-
- I eventually get to speak to an LT functionary who first doesn't believe me,
- and then (incongruously) says it happens all the time...
-
- I returned to the house of the friend I was staying with more than a little
- shaken -- only to be told I was lucky I was mugged painlessly!
-
- If that's London, you can KEEP any larger cities -- I lost nearly an entire
- giro...
-
- Steve Glover
- (okay so perhaps I should've sent this to alt.peeves)
-