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Naked man brings London to standstill

November 24, 2012

LONDON  - A naked man brought parts of central London to a standstill on Friday after he installed himself on a statue near Prime Minister David Cameron's office for nearly three hours.

He braved the November cold and gawking crowds to straddle the monument to Prince George, a 19th century military chief and one-time Duke of Cambridge, adopting various poses including balancing precariously on the prince's head.

Police were called to the statue on Whitehall, the street on which many government offices including Cameron's Downing Street residence are located, after reports that a man had climbed up and might have had a knife.

From midday to about 3pm, police cordoned off the area as they tried to persuade him to come down. Finally they got him into a police van, where he was detained under the Mental Health Act, police said. â€" Agence France Presse



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but is this really strange for great britannia?  isn't that country supposed to have the most number of eccentrics per capita?

here's more...


Mind that flame! A naked man disrupted the Olympic torch relay in Henley-on-Thames after jumping out in front of an unsuspecting runner while holding a fake flame.

http://www.standard.co.uk/

The UK’s confusion over the appropriateness of things sexual continues.

While the supposedly trend-setting Edinburgh Fringe gets more-and-more Puritan and this year â€" in a new move â€" is censoring ‘naughty’ words from their listings because “our Programme is read by families”, London yesterday paraded up to a thousand real-life fleshy bits-and-pieces unmentionable at the Fringe around the main streets of a sunny English capital city thronged with children, tourists, persons of a nervous disposition and, in Piccadilly, three nuns.

It was the annual London Naked Bike Ride.

-from One naked man among many (including Prince Philip) in London’s annual Naked Bike Ride, by John Fleming, June 12, 2012, http://www.wespeaknews.com/

Bwahaha! Rule, Britannia!