Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
nut 'em.subversplat said:People keep coming up to me in the pub and going on about crack squirrels now. Over and over.
Thanks a lot.
Can squirrels get addicted to crack?
- Thread starter Bob
- Start date
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/10/london_squirrel_terror/
They've stolen the same quote too.....
They've stolen the same quote too.....
dogmatique
merde alors
there was a cartoon in the sun today, making a tenuous pete doherty reference, with him as a squirrel jacking up in Brixton.
Pot-Bellied Pig said:
Perhaps now they've been unmasked they can join the regulars and replace the drug dogs - save a bob or two on feeding and they wouldn't have to be transported about in vans; they coould just sit on their handler's shoulder, pointing an accusatory claw as the need arises.
It's true. I noticed it because it was digging so frantically.Mrs Magpie said:
That could so easily be the cover of an 'edgy' 'art' magazine. 
Too lateTeeJay said:
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Does eating crack acutally do anything?
It does if you're a squirrelPacificOcean said:
dogmatique
merde alors
Local junkies have resorted to sucking squirrels to get high when desperate.
dogmatique said:Local junkies have resorted to sucking squirrels to get high when desperate.
Awesome 
Not wishing to be left out of any photoshopping:
http://www.memespring.co.uk/photos/uncategorized/cracksquirells.jpg
http://www.memespring.co.uk/photos/uncategorized/cracksquirells.jpg
maximilian ping
Grrrrr
edited cos found it
bmd
Island in the stream.
There's an article on this in the Nov/Dec Druglink magazine, it mentions Urban and quotes Bob as the source of the story, it also names the journalist who nabbed it off here, chief reporter of the SLP apparently.
He says "I'm happy to admit it's an exaggeration of the truth."
He says "I'm happy to admit it's an exaggeration of the truth."
bmd
Island in the stream.
Bob said:
Sure, I'll have to type it out as I'm at work but here goes.
Crack squirrels: the making of a bushy tale.
It was the drug tale that had legs - and it ran and ran. The eye-popping revelation last month that squirrels in Brixton, south London were hooked on crack cocaine was reported all over the national media.
SQUIRRELS JOIN THE DRUG WAR screamed the Daily Mail, while rival Daily Express devoted 400 words under the headline SQUIRRELS GO NUTS FOR CRACK COCAINE. Tourists photographed each other standing under billboards advertising the story. But where did it come from?
Druglink can reveal that the source of the story was a tongue in cheek comment on an internet based chat forum. In a post on the Brixton-based web community, urban75 - which made headlines in 2002 when the then commander of Brixton Police Brian Paddick wrote on the forum that he found the "concept of anarchism" appealing - 'Bob' asked 'Can squirrels get addicted to crack?'
Bob explained that one of his neighbours had told him that crack dealers were hiding stashes of the drug in his front garden. "An hour earlier I'd seen a squirrel wandering around the garden, digging in the flowerbeds... do I face the prospect of dreaded crack squirrels? I'm worreid by being done over by a twitchy squirrel."
The thread was spotted by Greg Truscott, chief reporter of local newspaper the South London Press. "It was an interesting story and I'm happy to admit it's an exaggeration of the truth," he said. "I doubted there were drug-addicted squirrels out there, but our paper had murders on pages one to five - so I thought if we have some fun and make people laugh then why not." Four days later the story appeared on the paper's front page and the next day it was in every national newspaper, Radio 4 and the Jonathon Ross Show.
'Bob' told Druglink: "My squirrels are still happily scampering round the garden unaware of their celebrity status. And the local cats are stil lchasing the crack squirrels, without any fear. I've had a few happy weeks of seeing my jokey speculation become a major national story. It seems that furry animals and drugs are an irresistible combination."
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
oh dear oh dear....I am nearly weeping with laughter.
First paddick, then me 'n' bob duffing up michael howard, and now this.
I could fucking piss myself. One jokey post and within 2 weeks flat it's a national news story.
<salutes Bob>
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Red Jezza said:
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
OK, who included the squirrel story on the Brixton Wikipedia page while I was on my hols ... 
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
during the barney between dracula and Polly toynbee, bob dug out a link leading to a speech, made in brixton the year, before showing that letwin had said virtually identical things to PT; I got the link across to PT-she ran it the next dayOrang Utan said:
dogmatique
merde alors
To be forever known as "Crack squirrel Bob".
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