alcazar

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...carrying a burning torch, just ran past my house.

I think it might have been an escaped lunatic, since the Police helicopter was tracking him/her.

Seriously: roads closed, council workers everywhere, police everywhere, local school kids sanctioned a day off to watch, (but they can't have time off to go on holiday with their parents....)


What the hell is this COSTING????

Coffin Dodger

Klu-Klux-Klan gathering nearby?

Jamie

Was it him

Jamie

Is that you john wayne is this me.

chocolate_o_brian

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Came past my house off Queensway too, Jezza. I was on 2-10 though

Leslie

Most of it is sponsored anyway.

No point in being a miserable fellow about it really!

Les

JTaylor

I thought this thread was going to be about BugSti Malone.

alcazar

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I look at it, sponsorship and all and I think:
What do normal people in this country get out of it, apart from paying for it?
And what does the north of England get, yet again?

I can think of hundreds of ways that amount of money could have been better spent.

JonMc

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But as the PM says, it will generate £13bn for the UK. It's only cost us £9bn that we know about

jameswrx

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Great picture lol

I was trying to work out who it was until I realised the torch bearer is completely blocked by the security runner.

Also, the man in the background is quite funny, the one who's under the torch handle. I had to double take, looked like something out of wallace and grommit until I realised it was his hands and a camera. Looked like cartoon eyes and huge ears.

urban

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**** all, just the bill

Tower bridge rings - 300K!
Another example
Those torches - 8000 of them
Cost to produce is £495, and the bearers are allowed to purchase them for £215
There's another two and a quarter million wasted.

DYK

Why am i not surprised by the fine....
Does anyone wish this Olympics was already over with...