STAN BOWES, from Diggle, has uncovered some more interesting and entertaining, strange but true facts for us – you just couldn’t make them up.
LILLE HOUSEWIFE Rochelle Vignal was sick and tired of people parking their cars outside her home. In February 1982 she finally snapped and set to work on the gleaming Citroen in front of her gate.
She scratched the paintwork, poured three tins of paint over it, and then slashed the tyres, after which she settled down to a satisfied sleep.
Her husband awakened her later to announce his anniversary present to her: a brand-new Citroen.
IN JANUARY 1983, Magistrates in Barnsley rejected a licence application for a Sports and Social Club because the building was a potential fire hazard. There was no fire-escape, insufficient fire-fighting equipment, and inadequate emergency lighting. The application was from the local fire brigade, who owned the building.
Improve your vocabulary
Staddle: The indent you leave in your mattress when you get out of bed.
Quobbled: When the skin on your fingers become wrinkled by immersion in water.
Thrumbles: The bubbling sound made by a kettle when the water is boiling.
Fudgel: To make a public show of doing something to no purpose.
Duffifie: To lie an almost empty of bottle – of shampoo, for instance – on its side, in order to get the most possible out of it.
Apophthegms
Don’t worry about what people think: they don’t do it very often.
