I regret to inform you all that the Wombles have been moved on from Wimbledon Common by the Metropolitan Police exercising their powers under §60E of the Police, Justice and Public Order Act 1994, as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. Great Uncle Bulgaria refused to leave when requested to do so by a duly appointed constable, and is currently serving a 10 week sentence in HMP Wandsworth.
@tryst That was a sketch on some early 80's radio show I believe. They got Bernard Cribbins in and everything..
@tryst So Great Uncle Bulgaria will be walking a bit funny soon!
@tryst by “refused to leave” they mean “he wasn’t fast enough and we decided his cane was a lethal weapon”
@tryst @vfrmedia I am sorry... what?

@andrej @tryst

I guess ARD didn't repeat the Wombles after the 1970s? They were the original London environment activists (I have seen Paddington Bear on German kids TV, although it was the the modern version)

@vfrmedia @tryst I even know what the Wombles were roughly... this still made no sense to me :D

afaik, the wombles never featured on ARD. I know them indirectly via soviet womble.

@andrej I watched them as a kid so they must have been on *some* West German station (ARD, ZDF or WDR in my case) in the 70s. @vfrmedia @tryst
@andrej German WP says the Wombles ran on ZDF in 1977. @vfrmedia @tryst
@tryst I heard that Madame Cholet was deported back to France because she didn't have settled status, and had no evidence of stable income.
@tryst I await news of a WhatsApp group of Met officers sharing sexually explicit pics and discussions of Madame Cholet...
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Is it true that Orinoco was pepper sprayed?