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Brilliant! Although I’m an animal lover, I could barely catch my breath for laughing.
Toni | 24.04.21 - 7:10 a.m. | #
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An alternative view is that Harrow, Kingston, Merton and Sutton have the most heartless residents, or have animals that lack curiosity.
Trumpton - they never had the fastest fire engine, so most calls resolved themselves.
Still Anon | 24.04.21 - 7:24 a.m. | #
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I suspect we trump Trumpton now.
"Mayor trapped on zip-wire"
"Statue's head adorned with strip of grass"
JonF | 24.04.21 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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I think this is the best blog post I have ever read.
ganching | Homepage | 24.04.21 - 8:22 a.m. | #
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This has to be a contender for DG's best ever post.... which is really saying something!!
cau1khead | 24.04.21 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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I come for the stats. I stay for the Trumpton references
Great work
AndrewF | 24.04.21 - 9:00 a.m. | #
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Love this post.
I think the nearest Trumpton’s fire brigade got to a real fire was a bonfire!
Hadders | 24.04.21 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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I should think making a fire out of plasticine would be pretty tricky...
Joho | Homepage | 24.04.21 - 9:20 a.m. | #
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Brilliant! Was not expecting todays post at all!!
All I can say about us Harrovians, is when we do something we at least do it in style!! I can imagine the call.. "the horse is trapped how????"
Cornish Cockney | 24.04.21 - 9:44 a.m. | #
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Goodness, could this be the best post ever.
Absolutely fantastic DG.
From another, bottom of the table, non pet owning Harrovian!
MikeK | 24.04.21 - 10:16 a.m. | #
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wow brilliant DG ... how on earth did you come across this
Caroline | 24.04.21 - 10:26 a.m. | #
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Gosh! I would never have realised the total was so high. What a waste of the public's money - the owners should be charged I reckon.
Danni | 24.04.21 - 11:17 a.m. | #
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No comment from the Debster yet about the poor little kittens.
Mike | 24.04.21 - 12:20 p.m. | #
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Given London’s not overly-rural, it’s slightly surprising how many incidents involve farm livestock. Or are there carefully-concealed farms or people rearing livestock (like the geese in Sherlock Holmes’s Blue Carbuncle story) in central London?
Labourer | 24.04.21 - 12:48 p.m. | #
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Trumpton call centre statistics should show that all calls were answered personally by the chief fire officer. Impressive, or perhaps Pugh, Pugh, Barny McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub had not passed the health and safety investors in people ISO 2000 telephone answering course.
kev | 24.04.21 - 12:52 p.m. | #
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Mike - I think there should have been at least one picture of a kitten in a tree - don't you?!!
Cornish Cockney | 24.04.21 - 2:34 p.m. | #
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Oh this gave me a smile DG Well done to the Fire Brigade
Cornish Monkey | 24.04.21 - 4:02 p.m. | #
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Cornish Cockney - Kitten with head stuck in bongo drums would be more interesting. One of our cats was in a tree when we went to pick him up as a kitten. him and his siblings used to play in in it.
Mike | 24.04.21 - 5:08 p.m. | #
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My mate, a fireman, recently spent a whole night with his colleagues in woodland trying to dig a dog out of a fox hole. They eventually reached the poor animal at dawn to find his collar stuck by a tree root (very common apparently). The Jack Russel had been missing for a few days so it must have been quite an ordeal, his cries where heard by a passing runner. Alls well that ends well.
Johnny C | 24.04.21 - 7:05 p.m. | #
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I have a photo of my fireman nephew with an injured goose he rescued from a tree in Kensington Gardens.
His name is Sam, and his brother Robert is in the construction industry. Who says nominative determinism isn't a thing?
timbo | 24.04.21 - 9:56 p.m. | #
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Can't speak for the other boroughs with lower numbers, but both Kingston and Sutton have well-publicised local animal rescue groups. They would be the first port of call in many cases, with the FD called if a ladder was needed.
Chz | 26.04.21 - 9:20 a.m. | #
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I see you have just been linked to in Benedict Evans newsletter. I wonder what that will do for the number of visitors.
dg writes: over 500 extra visitors so far.
Paul Kelly | 04.05.21 - 4:12 p.m. | #
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Popbitch too!
Richard DeDomenici | Homepage | 07.05.21 - 10:56 p.m. | #
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