London randomness

Does being taken from a sewer into Romford count as being 'rescued'?

Ones a foul-smelling, excrement laden, rat infested, dank, dark, grim area that most people prefer to pretend doesn't exist, the other is an underground network of tunnels and conduits etc, etc.

Don't think your excellent quote there went unnoticed

From a fellow Repo Man fan.

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I suppose one could make a 'from the frying pan into the fire' type of point. :)

(Most of Romford is fine, of course, it's just the central one-way system that has damaged the town centre, but it's hardly unusual in that.)

London and Chennai randomness:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/norbiton-sandwich-shop-owner-embroiled-in-bizarre-plagiarism-row-with-cafe-nearly-5000-miles-away-in-a3861616.html

Collapsing parts of buildings feature occasionally in what I'd call randomness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmUp3e6lSE8

There but for the grace of God, etc.

Evening Standard story:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/shocking-moment-man-narrowly-avoids-being-crushed-by-collapsing-roof-on-busy-high-street-a4087906.html

And this is why it's important to check the strength of trees:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/florist-inches-from-death-as-75ft-tree-crushes-van-in-soho-square-a4138921.html

Indeed a very lucky escape.

I've already posted this in the news thread, but as it is very random, as the motive of the man for jumping is apparently unclear, I thought I might as well post it here. He landed on a trainee doctor, Grace Spence Green, and only suffered a broken leg, while she was paralysed.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/01/experience-i-was-crushed-by-a-falling-man

Fingers crossed for her that she manages to limit the effect of her paralysis further.

Cross-posting from the commute thread:

@andrewd531

Camberwell, yesterday 8:15 ish. Rider knocked off by falling bed.
Bed base and mattress blown onto road. Rider got up, obviously in pain holding wrists. Assisted by passerby's. Hope it wasn't too serious.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15121937/

Not sure if random or inevitable, but there you go:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/naked-man-oxford-street-face-mask-genitals-a4508041.html

I somehow get ads for underwear and facemasks after clicking that link.

That's just Internet non-randomness.

London mudlark randomness, possibly a dildo used on corpses to prevent the chi from escaping the mortal remains:

https://twitter.com/LondonMudlark/status/1285998697084416002