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- From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Tramp / Axe Murderer Story
- Message-ID: <BzM7o8.M8H@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:14:29 GMT
- References: <BzM6rz.Lyo@brunel.ac.uk>
- Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK
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- Once I went drinking with an American student who was doing a work
- placement with our firm while studying in London (UK). We had a good time,
- and weaved our way back to his flat to crash out.
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- His flat was at the top of a stairwell. The stairwell was inadequately lit
- by bulbs that were frequently out of order. His door was double, an
- *unlockable* door, then a gap, then a *lockable* door.
-
- When we reached the top of the stairwell it was pitch black. He was fumbling
- with the keys when we found we were treading on a bundle of rags that
- someone had left in the gap between the doors. The bundle started to swear
- and make some really disgusting noises - it seemed to be a drunk tramp /
- axe murderer crashed out on the doorstep.
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- The door opened outwards, but somehow we forced it open, fled inside, and
- locked the hideous apparition out. The tramp / axe murderer was flailing
- around, vomiting, farting and spitting. We were terrified. If there had
- been a phone in the flat we would have called the cops. The student had
- been to Germany recently, and smuggled back a butterfly knife - now he
- put it to good use, flicking it around and around, and muttering that he'd
- 'take the face off' anyone who tried to mess with him.
-
- I hope you've found this exiting, because this next bit is a bit
- anticlimatic. When the tramp / axe murderer sobered up enough to be
- intelligible (it was about 3am by this time), he proved to be a friend
- of another student from the same flat. After He'd pleaded with us through
- the letterbox for a while, we let him in. There was no vomit or mucus
- generally on the doorstep, he'd just been very drunk and snoring in a#
- horrible fashion.
-
- You can understand our suspicious natures, though. Earlier on that
- evening we'd been going down the Earls Court Road, and someone had thrown
- a turd in a paper bag at us from a hotel window. But that's another
- story ...
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- |Brian Milner, The Computer Centre, Brunel University , West London, UK |
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