That stories true, read Dave Douglass's books, he was
NUM secretary at Hatfield Colliery.
Check his Miners Advice Centre webpage, the story is
related on there. URL is
http://www.minersadvice.co.uk/
--- Keith Ramsey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I hope Peter will let me get away with this...
>
> Yesterday's "Guardian" carried an article on the
> comedian Linda Smith which
> mentions a story that she liked to tell about
>
> "... the pickets who had built a snowman, only to
> see a police Land Rover
> deliberately smash into it. "Next day they built
> another snowman, and
> exactly the same thing happened. What the police
> didn't know was they had
> built this one round a cast- iron bollard."
>
>
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1721232,00.html
>
> A similar story appeared in "The Times" (5 March
> 1985, p 36), describing
> events at Cortonwood, only in this report it was a
> Range Rover, a concrete
> post, and the snowman was wearing a policeman's
> helmet. The story is
> described as "Strike folklore..."
>
> I'm intrigued by the way in which stories can become
> accepted at true even
> if they never happened, but does anyone know if this
> particular story is
> true or not?
>
> Keith Ramsey
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