Oops… looks like I’ve made the news!
May 5, 2008
Well, ok, maybe not major international front-page headlines. In fact, little more than a snippet on the inside page of one of our local freebie papers. But in fairness, it is only one of two newspapers serving Bedford, and who’d want to deny me my brief moment in the spotlight (albeit rather dimmed)?
The article in question refers to my recent adventure that I blogged here.
And as for the cops denying it (if indeed they were cops)… well, they would, wouldn’t they?
But their denial’s quite interesting. The fact that they denied the existence of any such “training exercise for contingency planning” isn’t surprising. As I said in my original post, that was probably just an excuse made up on the spur of the moment.
And regarding the second part of their denial… well, who suggested a call had been made on the emergency 999 line? What about the direct line to the local cop-shop? No denial there I notice.
What I really find interesting though is how the hell did the reporter stumble across my blog post in the first place? After all, its not as though this is one of the most active or highly-rated blogs. Curious. (I did ask him, but he wasn’t telling.)
[Mandatory credit: Article appeared in the 4th May print edition of "Bedfordshire on Sunday"]
8 Responses to “Oops… looks like I’ve made the news!”
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May 5, 2008 at 6:58 34
this sounds like an episode of the X files…. you know one of those stand alone episodes that were funny and starred Charles Nelson Reilly
May 5, 2008 at 14:52 42
Alright….it was me. I knew you would be out and about in Ravensden and I thought it would be rather clever to phone up the local constabulary and tell them that some stranger was taking pictures of local infrastructure (got to use the right nomenclature to get their attention - they’re rather thick otherwise).
I really thought they would send a uniformed officer or two…I never really expected it would turn into something so big (and cool!) as to warrant plain clothes coppers as well as a van!
And for my next trick….
May 5, 2008 at 18:04 41
Lemme guess… me getting snatched off the street and sent to somewhere ‘orrible?
(Btw, you do know they’ll be knocking on your door next, for wasting police time?)
May 6, 2008 at 4:00 25
YIKES! Interesting article. Does make one wonder how the reporter found you… and to quote you from your blog.
Loving the banter between you and forkboy in comments. You two make me laugh.
May 6, 2008 at 6:10 06
Heh heh… I think we’re slowly beginning to plumb the depths of mutual ribbing and insult. We can occasionally be serious… hard though it may be to believe. But from such are friendships born. Sort of makes the whole web caper worthwhile.
May 6, 2008 at 16:02 59
Oh please. Don’t think that being all nice and mushy is going to get you out of trouble!
And regarding “…snatched off the street and sent to somewhere ‘orrible?”…..I’d say that’s already been taken care of.
May 6, 2008 at 21:26 35
Heh heh… yeah, on second thoughts, you’re right. The good old “13th circle of hell”.
May 7, 2008 at 20:32 55
Just change the name from Bedford to Badford.