A Slow News Day In Bournemouth
SLOW times in Bournemouth where disabled armed robber Kevin Staples is at the till.
As the Mail reports:
He had hobbled up to the counter at the gift shop Past Times, in Crawley, West Sussex produced a 12-inch bread knife and demanded the cashier empty the till.
He is then said to have “tried to lunge” towards the till.
But when the shop assistant shouted at him he carefully put the weapon in a bag hanging on his zimmer frame before hobbling out.
No joy in Crawley. But in Bournemouth…
Two days previously, he had help up a Bottoms Up off-licence in Bournemouth, Dorset, by waving a walking stick in the air.
He told staff: “Give me all the money from the safe or I’m going to batter you.” When an assistant said he did not have access to the safe or till, Staples mumbled ‘give me some fags then’ before hobbling out of the shop with the stick.
In other Bournemouth news, a “slow art” project called Real Snail Mail at Bournemouth University, features Muriel, Austin and Cecil, “snails for the electronic age”:
The gastropods have been fitted with equipment to allow them to send e-mails on behalf of visitors to a website. Instead of instantaneous communication, sent messages will travel at 0.03mph (0.05km/h) and could take days, weeks or even months to arrive.
And what news? Why, a man in the offie is brandishing a stick and threatening…
June 19th, 2008 at 10:25 am
It took 2 days to get from Bournemouth to Crawley? Ghent to Aix was about that time?
June 19th, 2008 at 10:48 am
With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim,
And with circles of red for his eye-sockets’ rim.
It’s draught sherry from Threshers
That’s caused him to sin
June 19th, 2008 at 11:31 am
ooh no, not sherry - gives you a shocking hangover in the morning….
June 19th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
‘A Slow News Day In Bournemouth’
Are there any other?
M and A
There are, yes, we went for a long w/e in Bournemouth about 6 years ago, a Ladies Night shindig. In fact we held two, never going back to Bournemouth again…the hangover, and the oneway system grrrrr
June 19th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
was the incident in Bournemouth classed as a stick-up…?
June 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Stick of rock up