Babbling Brooks: Imagine if he'd had a weapon

Monday, October 30, 2006

Imagine if he'd had a weapon

Babble on.

"They didn't get anything – except a bloody good hiding."

Who exactly? The four muggers who attacked a seventy-year-old former British soldier in Bielefeld, Germany, that's who (ht:FbL).

Picture for a moment the thrashing Douglas O'Dell could have unleashed if he'd been walking with a cane. The thought positively warms my heart.

Babble off.

2 Comments:

At 11:51 a.m., Olaf said...: Ha,

My favourite line from the story is "No you don't, sunshine." Brilliant.
At 1:00 p.m., Temujin said...: ""The last I saw of them they were limping down the pavement like a WW1 trench raiding party who got clobbered," said Douglas."

Glorious!

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