[L i b]

Brilliant!

London mayor Boris Johnson has rescued a woman who was being attacked by an armed group of young girls, chasing them down the road on his bicycle.

Franny Armstrong called for help as she was surrounded and pushed by the girls, one of whom had an iron bar, in Camden, north London, on Monday night.

The mayor, who was cycling past, stopped and chased the girls down the street, calling them: "Oiks".

Ms Armstrong said: "He was my knight on a shining bicycle."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8340865.stm

What a guy.

[secretmessages]

Read this earlier today . You gotta love him .

[Student2806]

Good on him.
On another note - the mayor was allowed to cycle through the middle of London on a Monday night with no protection whatsoever?

[L i b]

Originally Posted by Student2806

On another note - the mayor was allowed to cycle through the middle of London on a Monday night with no protection whatsoever?

Oo-er.

Still, yeah, plenty of Cabinet Ministers don't get security, so I don't see why the Mayor would. Didn't Ken ride the Tube to work every morning?

[Fusion]

I'm loving the "oiks" part.

from the Oxford English Dictionary: oick, oik (OIk). slang. Etym. obscure. Depreciatory schoolboy word for a member of another school; an unpopular or disliked fellow-pupil. Also gen., an obnoxious or unpleasant person; in weakened senses, a 'nit-wit', a 'clot'. Hence 'oikish

[TheTallOne]

Profile of the woman is perfect: Film maker and climate change activist.

[I'm_Unsafe.]

Olol. I admit the idea of an 'armed group of young girls' did make me laugh at first, thoughts of 10 year olds with machine guns/machetes.
But...oiks...you don't hear that one very often. Good on him.

[grape:)]

He's one cool dude

[Democracy]

Nice one, good on him

But he's still a bastard and I'm still not voting for him

[Intheshadows]

Nice one, good on him!

[Antonia87]

What a legend.

[rockrunride]

Good show, he's saved one person. This man:



will save everyone.

[Stettin]

What is Ken up to anyway? Last thing I heard he made a comment on the paper about how Boris somehow wasted £1.5 billion in 18 months they he saved up.

[milesofsea]

Originally Posted by Student2806

Good on him.
On another note - the mayor was allowed to cycle through the middle of London on a Monday night with no protection whatsoever?

I literally walked into him today at oxford circus before the christmas-light-switching and he was just wandering through the crowds, with no security

[Christian_j]

Good old BoJo, I don't know a lot about his policies or anything but I think he's hilarious.

The oiks bit is the best, we need more people like him around, it's a word that needs to be bought back.

[Craig_D]

Originally Posted by rockrunride

Good show, he's saved one person. This man:



will save everyone.

He had 8 years to do that, it didn't happen.

[La Môme]

Haha, he sounds ~badass.

[fire2burn]

This is expected from Boris, but would Dave have reacted in the same way?

[Malsy]

ahahahahahahHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH i actually lold out loud
brilliant.
chasing them down the road on his bicycle.

[rockrunride]

Originally Posted by Craig_D

He had 8 years to do that, it didn't happen.

Sorry, I didn't know his influence was felt in Nottingham.