Polite robbers in Barnet

Barnet and Whetstone Press: Shopper bought scarf from robber holding up store

Good to see that being a criminal is no barrier to providing good customer service

Cheers to Dave for finding this

Cathedral-licking wierdo comes to Ely

Cambridge News: Man aims to lick all cathedrals in UK - and says Ely tastes good


Ta to Richard for sending this in

Pie throwing wierdo in Burnley

Burnley Express: Man with Hallowe’en pumpkin in pie attack on woman

Top marks to the paper for correctly punctuating "Hallowe'en", good to see that level of pride in their work.

Thanks to Karen for sending that in

Not much to do in Hertfordshire eccentricity

Comet24: Wool you believe it! Residents knit their village

The nights must fly by in Pirton

Thanks to Russk from twitter

Taxi jousting awesomness in Basildon

Basildon Echo: "Jousting" taxi stopped by police in road crackdown

Police being spoilsports, as per usual. Thanks to Barry for the spot

Nothing to see here oddness

Move along now, nothing to see

Morecombe wierdness

"Silly string attack on boy carrying owl"

Awesomely bizarre story from The Visitor, Morecombe's weirdly-named local newspaper. Thanks to Monsieur Scaryduck for reminding of this; it's fair to say he's very much the inspiration for this blog (ie I nicked an idea he'd not got round to using yet). Tweet contributions to me on that twitter thing