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A: They both hijacked buses without facing criminal charges.

True fact.

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Date: 2013-02-04 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com
Simon Cowell hijacked a bus? Was he in college at the time too?

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Date: 2013-02-04 07:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
According to today's The Unbelievable Truth (Listen Again available in an hour or so), he was twelve, and held the driver up with a toy pea gun.

Of course, I immediately thought of Tolkien's rag-week stunt. The account in Carpenter's biography only has him "capturing" a bus, which I suppose might be a case of stealing an unattended one rather than actually taking it by force, but the latter seems more in the Town vs. Gown spirit.

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Date: 2013-02-04 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malkhos.livejournal.com
Are you sure? I though they were both kings of the beavers.

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Date: 2013-02-04 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
Only at the weekend.

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Date: 2013-02-04 07:33 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com
Fancy that! I too was listening to The Unbelievable Truth, but had no idea which of the truths also applied to Tolkien.

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Date: 2013-02-04 07:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
There's nowt so queer as folk, as Richard III used to say.

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