Ukulele vs Pitchfork [UPDATED]
Yesterday, the mild-mannered world of the Brockley Christmas Market bumped up against the dark underworld occupied by the rail cops. A man (said to be wielding a large fork) was chased by transport police and a police helicopter across the railway line near Brockley Station, causing delays to rail services and livening-up proceedings at the market next-door.
Transpontine has a good summation of the available facts and a three-minute recording of the sound clash between the ukuleles, the sirens and the rotor blades as a scene from Chris Morris' Jam unfolded.
UPDATE: Apparently, yesterday's fork-wielder managed to temporarily evade the police but stuck around in Brockley. At time of writing (2.30pm) he is reported (by reliable BCer Andrea) to be on a roof on Harefield Road. The property is surrounded and the eye in the sky is back. And now, end game.
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Fiddling while Brockley Burns - http://audioboo.fm/boos/1115706-brockley-christmas-market
Does rather describe the post-2005 influx's attitude to the area.
And what would you have people do? Not throw markets lest a police chase breaks out? Not get together and organise enjoyable local things? Not play music on the streets?
And what would you like people to do instead? What do you do?
completely honest pitchfork owning residents versus the new dishonest grissini-eating, giving-birth-to-hugo influx - I know who's corner I'd be in
You'd be in prison right now.
In fact maybe you are.
speaking from experience Welcome?
Yes, I have some experience in helping to convict weapon-wielding maniacs - and their accomplices.
Do you want me to explain it to you?
Good to see the BXAG Stormtroopers quashed the peasant revolt.
sounds like regular life in the metropolis - all calm when I passed by, good that the police getting on with their work. Singing sounded lovely on the audio. Now where is my garden fork?
The police helicopter is still flying over Brockley. Is Forrest Gump still running around the station?
Latest on twitter says the garden fork lunatic is on a roof on harefield road....
Any chance he could pop round and turn over my veg patch before they cart him off?
He's not the hero Brockley deserves - he's the hero Brockley needs. A hero for honesty, fighting for the right thing for once! Not olives and grissini!
This news will no doubt upset dinner tables on Geoffrey Road tonight.
I love the idea that Geoffrey Road is the height of bourgeois Brockley. Someone doesn't get out much.
I like that idea too and I live on Geoffrey Road! I haven't actually got a dinner table though.
If you want to hear what we sound like without sirens in the background, we're playing at the Amersham Arms tonight from around 8pm. We are celebrating our 100th gig!
"olives and grissini"? Is your hero from the eighties? Battling his foes with the aid of a Filofax and a VW Golf?
I just moved in to Geoffrey Road & I don't have a dinner table either...or a pitchfork, I do have a shabby looking MOT garage across the road though, and I have no idea what grissini is so this Geoffrey Road Bourgeoisie thing seem somewhat misplaced to me.
Surely I can't be the only BC reader that finds the honest commenter hilarious. Great stuff!
You need to get out more.
It's dishonest to go out
Ready meals 'healthier' than TV chefs' fare
The 'honest food' quips do make me laugh, I have to say.....
^This explains why My Family made it to 11 series..
Yes because people in the conservation area thought it was a documentary.
honestly?
I was wondering what was happening with the trains from Brockley Station that day. Thanks to your post, I now know why I couldn't get to work that day. I was trying to find out on social medias, what was wrong.
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