I found this on another website about an incident that happended during the miners strike, it made for good reading!!


To the spirit of the rebel snowman

The Miners of Silverwood, having been told they were confined to six pickets only, built themselves a seventh comrade in the shape of a large snowman,wearing for good measure a plastic policeman's helmet.

Next morning, Chief Inspector Nesbitt appears on the scene and seeing the jeering miners and their steely eyed companion, ordered the constables to knock it down . This order brought rebellion to the police ranks as PCs declined to, "look so stupid knocking down a snowman". "Very well," shouts the irate Nesbitt, jumping in his Range Rover and charging off to demolish the snowman, as pickets ran laughing for cover.

Maybe it was a trick of the light, or maybe a twinkle glistened in the icy countenance on the snowman's fixed expression - we shall never know, as the Range Rover made contact and came to a dead stop, smashing front grill, bumper and headlamps and hurling the shocked Nesbitt into the steering wheel. PCs found excuses to walk away or supress body shaking laughter while pickets fell about on the ground with side splitting mirth. The snowman had been constructed around a three foot high two foot thick concrete post!

Dave Douglass - All power to the imagination!

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i made a similar mistake in the french alps

through no fault of my own or the copious amount a lager i had consumed i thought it would be funny to rugby tackle a snowman that we walked past everynight on our way home.

Only to find it was frozen solid and I just hit it knocked its arm off and fell straight down on the floor and got a lovely black/red bruise on my shoulder

to this day i'm convinced it must have had something inside it giving it strength

Nice story, but which miners strike? the Scargill 83 strike was in the summer, so a bit short on snow. Perhaps the earlier 74 one? my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
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It was the 84/85 strike. Black MY2013 SD4 GS Auto, Wood Company Armrest, Freel2 sticker.
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