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setting of the alarms outwide Bullwood Hall Womens Prison in Essex, age 16 place lit up like a Christmas tree while we were showing our bits to the screaming ladies. 4 police Cars turned up very quickly thinking the ladies had done a bunk.


oh how we laughed done the station at that one

setting of the alarms outwide Bullwood Hall Womens Prison in Essex, age 16 place lit up like a Christmas tree while we were showing our bits to the screaming ladies. 4 police Cars turned up very quickly thinking the ladies had done a bunk.


oh how we laughed done the station at that one

I spent about three hours in a police cell aged 12. I had been caught bunking off school (my mother actually would call the police on such occasions) and they found me in Leicester Square Empire cinema watching A Chorus Line. I think she must have told them to lock me up to scare me..... I got the full works - stripped of my hairband and my money belt. I refused dinner and instead spent the entire time turning pirouettes like some crazed thing - don't think the cell had ever seen such action.


Five years later I came into regular contact over three summers with the old bill as a tap dancer busking in Leicester Square and Covent Garden.... that film had a lot to answer for.

I spent about three hours in a police cell aged 12. I had been caught bunking off school (my mother actually would call the police on such occasions) and they found me in Leicester Square Empire cinema watching A Chorus Line. I think she must have told them to lock me up to scare me..... I got the full works - stripped of my hairband and my money belt. I refused dinner and instead spent the entire time turning pirouettes like some crazed thing - don't think the cell had ever seen such action.


Five years later I came into regular contact over three summers with the old bill as a tap dancer busking in Leicester Square and Covent Garden.... that film had a lot to answer for.

Tis not quite the "southbank" (over side of bridge and all that and not the same complex)


I deviate away from this thread.


Am I considered hard core if I say me m8 got arrested for setting a bin on fire whilst under the influence of slightly illegal substances when he were a teen? ;-)

Tis not quite the "southbank" (over side of bridge and all that and not the same complex)


I deviate away from this thread.


Am I considered hard core if I say me m8 got arrested for setting a bin on fire whilst under the influence of slightly illegal substances when he were a teen? ;-)

giggirl Wrote:

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> > The worrying thing is the number of self-confessed

> piromaniacs in ED. I'm sure we have way more than

> the national average. Scary.



Scary and also extremely dangerous. Good job we have a world-leading fire service to protect us...;-)

giggirl Wrote:

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> > The worrying thing is the number of self-confessed

> piromaniacs in ED. I'm sure we have way more than

> the national average. Scary.



Scary and also extremely dangerous. Good job we have a world-leading fire service to protect us...;-)

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