Pensioner arrested on suspicion of murder after a suspected burglar was stabbed to death.

[Wilf]

To the tune of the Hokey Cokey

You put the flowers up
They take the flowers down
Up down up down chuck them on the ground
Then terrorise the neighbours driving round and round
Thats what it's all about
Oooh flowery confrontation
Oooh teddy bear situation
Oooh balloon and scissor deflation
Up down round and round, you couldn't make it up

 

[Wilf]

To add to the surreal nature feel of all this, I've just noticed that events are taking place in 'South Park Crescent'.

 

[Treacle Toes]

To the tune of the Hokey Cokey

You put the flowers up
They take the flowers down
Up down up down chuck them on the ground
Then terrorise the neighbours driving round and round
Thats what it's all about
Oooh flowery confrontation
Oooh teddy bear situation
Oooh balloon and scissor deflation
Up down round and round, you couldn't make it up

Knees bent, arms stretched, rah, rah, rah!

 

[Wilf]

Finally, we are going to get some official involvement in this standoff! So far the police have kept an eye on things powerless to intervene. But now things have got to change:

Lewisham resident Ian Gordon today turned up to rip down the flowers, cards and balloons in South Park Crescent, Hither Green, kicked them down the street and later threw them in a passing bin lorry.

Lewisham Council are locked and loaded - this isn't a green waste collection week!

 

[MickiQ]

Lewisham Council are locked and loaded - this isn't a green waste collection week!

He probably didn't properly sort the waste into recyclable and non-recyclable piles, some people are thoughtless like that.

 

[Wilf]

He probably didn't properly sort the waste into recyclable and non-recyclable piles, some people are thoughtless like that.

That's true. In my experience, vigilates are very rarely up on recycling protocols. For example when Charles Bronson and Liam Neeson have a get together they often hurl any leftover Potnoodle in with the non-food waste.

 

[T & P]

The media are fucking loving this circus aren’t they.... (see video)
Hither Green standoff continues as tributes to intruder removed again

 

[Wilf]

To the tune of the Hokey Cokey

You put the flowers up
They take the flowers down
Up down up down chuck them on the ground
Then terrorise the neighbours driving round and round
Thats what it's all about
Oooh flowery confrontation
Oooh teddy bear situation
Oooh balloon and scissor deflation
Up down round and round, you couldn't make it up

I've just heard from a well place source, so I'm reliant on your discretion here, that William and Kate have got this on the shortlist for their new national anthem.

 

[Wilf]

The media are fucking loving this circus aren’t they.... (see video)
Hither Green standoff continues as tributes to intruder removed again

'I'm sorry lovely, we got the flowers hitting the wall and the petal scatter was great, but your snarl wasn't quite right. Can we go again?'

 

[twentythreedom]

It's war

Hither Green standoff continues as tributes to intruder removed again

(Link is Graun not DM fwiw )

 

[Wilf]

The media are fucking loving this circus aren’t they.... (see video)
Hither Green standoff continues as tributes to intruder removed again

Ring! Ring!

'Oh, Hi Editor, what can I do for you? Just about to catch the plane to Damascus'.
- We need you back here, get your ass over to Hither Green!

 

[twentythreedom]

It's pretty much the perfect storm of suburban criminal drama for the DM

 

[Wilf]

It's pretty much the perfect storm of suburban criminal drama for the DM

'Menacing children's teddies and Lewisham Labour Council: the Corbyn link'.

 

[twentythreedom]

We can be only a short step away from media-incited violence tbh. Hopefully it doesn't happen. This case has really shown the DM at their toxic insidious worst. Depressing.

 

[not-bono-ever]

someone should install a live web cam of the fence so the rest of the world can watch this spectacle

 

[Wilf]

We can be only a short step away from media-incited violence tbh. Hopefully it doesn't happen. This case has really shown the DM at their toxic insidious worst. Depressing.

I've managed to avoid direct links to the DM till now, but in the latest development a burglar alarm company has decided to blitz the street with salesmen:
Fire brigade fit four smoke alarms at home of pensioner who killed burglar | Daily Mail Online
Fold Devils and Moral Twats. Christ.

 

[T & P]

someone should install a live web cam of the fence so the rest of the world can watch this spectacle

We're closer to WWIII today than at any other time since the end of the Cold War, so it is good stories like these are keeping developments in Syria off the front pages and out of people's minds.

 

[not-bono-ever]

it is fuckin nuts isn't it.

 

[Wilf]

Predict the next headline:

'Conor McGregor given community service on condition he trains up the residents of Hither Green to combat the teddy wielding menace'

 

[andysays]

It's war

Hither Green standoff continues as tributes to intruder removed again

(Link is Graun not DM fwiw )

And the inevitable Guardian angle

The family, who have identified themselves as Gypsies, said they were being treated differently because of their backgrounds...

Some of the media coverage has mentioned/emphasised the traveller/gypsy aspect, but from what I've seen, it was the Vincent family who first brought this up as if they felt it was somehow significant

 

[cupid_stunt]

I've managed to avoid direct links to the DM till now, but in the latest development a burglar alarm company has decided to blitz the street with salesmen:
Fire brigade fit four smoke alarms at home of pensioner who killed burglar | Daily Mail Online
Fold Devils and Moral Twats. Christ.

The 'battle of the bouquets'.

 

[cupid_stunt]

What gets me is these people ripping the flowers down, letting themselves be photographed and named in the press, surely inviting trouble?

 

[Wilf]

What gets me is these people ripping the flowers down, letting themselves be photographed and named in the press, surely inviting trouble?

The bloke who ripped them down in phase 2 is, literally, a florist. He has a strange business model where he simultaneously increases repurchase demand for his products whilst encouraging a boycott of his shop.

 

[T & P]

I'm disappointed Terry Pratchett has somehow managed to come back from the dead and instead of writing a new novel he chooses to spend his bonus time on Earth ripping bouquets of flowers from fences

 

[bemused]

Is there some sort of fancy dress competition between these flower-pull-a-downers?

This guy gets extra marks for wearing a hi-viz vest - safety first.

 

[Teaboy]

I won't be fully happy till someone starts a bonfire with all the tribute flowers.

 

[Wilf]

I won't be fully happy till someone starts a bonfire with all the tribute flowers.

((((Britain's Shrine Immolation Related Carbon Footprint))))

 

[Teaboy]

Its OK burning flowers is carbon neutral. Teddy Bears less so.

 

[Wilf]

I'm disappointed Terry Pratchett has somehow managed to come back from the dead and instead of writing a new novel he chooses to spend his bonus time on Earth ripping bouquets of flowers from fences

Looks like he's angrily waving a flag made up of the shirts of Sunderland, Nottingham Forrest, Leeds and Chelsea. The sort of thing John Terry has to hand if he's called upon to collect a trophy in any of the 4 Divisions.

 

[editor]

I passed a newsstand and sighed when I saw the tabloids' GYPSY! angle.