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Kandor
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It was March 31st 1974...I remember it quite clearly as it was also my 22nd birthday.
The weather was really lousy that night, cold, dark, pouring with rain.
It didn't matter though, I had a great time down the Costermongers where not only had I thrashed my buddy Steve on that old Shuffleboard table, I had also gotton off with a lovely young Nurse called Wendy.
Well Steve and me walked these two girls off to the bustop then walked through the market area at the back of 'Oasis' to catch the 55 bus home..(no car in those days I'm afraid)
I remember bursting out into a John Denver song called 'I am the Eagle'
I think I'd got as far as 'am' when two coppers stepped out of a doorway and said to me..'you're nicked'
Well ok, I DO sound like a duck farting in the fog but to be arrested for singing just two notes? even I didn't think I was THAT bad.
They took me down to Steelhouse Lane where they charged me for disturbance of the peace in a residential area..
I had my belt and shoelaces taken off me so I couldn't hang myself
(like THATS going to happen!) then they threw me into Chokey...(made it Ma, top of the world)
I was bailed to appear before 'da beak' the very next morning..hmm..I only have to think about crime and I start writing like a criminal..
Now the next day in court I noticed while waiting if you pleaded guilty you were bound over to keep the peace for a year and fined a tenner...
yet if you pleaded innoncence you not only lost that days wages but you had to appear another day which meant the loss of TWO days wages plus of course you could still be found guilty.
So the Cloik to da justices....(hmmm) asked how I wished to plead..Mrs Robinsons beautiful child...answered back 'not guilty'
I had to re-appear a few weeks later where I stood up in court glared this idiot of a JP right in the peepers and asked him 'how long had the back of Oasis been a residential area?'
I also told him that if it was a crime to sing two notes on a mans birthday then we lived in a sorry country indeed..
Da Boy got off with it...'Lefty Robinson' departed from the coight..(?)
a free man...Mea Culpa? nah...I was innocent.
The weather was really lousy that night, cold, dark, pouring with rain.
It didn't matter though, I had a great time down the Costermongers where not only had I thrashed my buddy Steve on that old Shuffleboard table, I had also gotton off with a lovely young Nurse called Wendy.
Well Steve and me walked these two girls off to the bustop then walked through the market area at the back of 'Oasis' to catch the 55 bus home..(no car in those days I'm afraid)
I remember bursting out into a John Denver song called 'I am the Eagle'
I think I'd got as far as 'am' when two coppers stepped out of a doorway and said to me..'you're nicked'
Well ok, I DO sound like a duck farting in the fog but to be arrested for singing just two notes? even I didn't think I was THAT bad.
They took me down to Steelhouse Lane where they charged me for disturbance of the peace in a residential area..
I had my belt and shoelaces taken off me so I couldn't hang myself
(like THATS going to happen!) then they threw me into Chokey...(made it Ma, top of the world)
I was bailed to appear before 'da beak' the very next morning..hmm..I only have to think about crime and I start writing like a criminal..
Now the next day in court I noticed while waiting if you pleaded guilty you were bound over to keep the peace for a year and fined a tenner...
yet if you pleaded innoncence you not only lost that days wages but you had to appear another day which meant the loss of TWO days wages plus of course you could still be found guilty.
So the Cloik to da justices....(hmmm) asked how I wished to plead..Mrs Robinsons beautiful child...answered back 'not guilty'
I had to re-appear a few weeks later where I stood up in court glared this idiot of a JP right in the peepers and asked him 'how long had the back of Oasis been a residential area?'
I also told him that if it was a crime to sing two notes on a mans birthday then we lived in a sorry country indeed..
Da Boy got off with it...'Lefty Robinson' departed from the coight..(?)
a free man...Mea Culpa? nah...I was innocent.