'I know you is the mayor... it was an accident': Bike-riding Boris Johnson confronts litter louts in 'souped-up Astra'

 

 

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Last updated at 11:42 AM on 30th March 2010

 

 

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Hot pursuit: Boris Johnson described how he went after the litter louts who threw a piece of rubbish at his head

 

Perched on his trusty bicycle he's fast becoming a one-man avenger of the city's streets.

From his trusty two-wheeled steed London Mayor Boris Johnson has already seen off a band of hoodies with violent intent, and now he's been at it again.

This time his foe, or rather foes, were a group of litter louts in a 'souped-up Astra'.

The stand-off unfolded when Mr Johnson was cycling home, as he put it 'at the speed of an elderly French onion seller' and felt the distinct sensation of a missile hitting him on the side of his cycling helmet.

Incensed, the Mayor - who has threatened 'enforcement measures' to clean up litter before the Olympics in two years' time - decided swift action was required.

So off set Mr Johnson in hot pursuit.

The politician wrote about the encounter in a newspaper column yesterday, describing how pedalling hard he managed to keep the car in his sight as it weaved along a central London street.

'Soon the bike had beaten the car, as it always does,' he wrote. As they waited at the next set of lights, I pounded on the window. "Open up!" I cried.

'There were three kids inside, and I could see the culprit goggling up at me with appalled recognition. They lurched off again in the hope of escape, but of course I had them at the next lights.'

The ensuing conversation must have made entertaining listening if it indeed unfolded as Mr Johnson - distinctive even with his trademark mop of blonde hair hidden under a cycle helmet - described.

It began with the irate mayor demanding the car's occupants open up, then him telling his assailant 'you aren't going to get away with it, I am the mayor!'.

Rolling down a window, the driver replied: 'I know you is the mayor, and it was a accident'.

The conversation then continued on the street, after the culprit offered to get out of the car.

Mr Johnson asked 'why did you throw something at my head?'

The response, was it seems: 'Please, Mr Boris sir, this wasn't meant to happen.

'We know you is the mayor, man.

'We gotta lot of respect for the things you are doing.'

Not normally one to be lost for words, at this point Mr Johnson appears to have lost his track.

After discovering two of the car's occupants were Derron and Erron, he failed to elicit the name of the third.

He erupted with rage when one of the men told him 'it was only a piece of litter', but only to warn them not to throw litter at people's heads.

All appears to have ended amicably, with the litter louts promising 'we won't do it again' and asking 'can we have a photo, Mr Boris?'

Whether he obliged, the mayor did not say.

What he did say, in his column, was: 'Only a piece of litter, he says, when we all know that the number one environmental concern of the British public - far ahead of global warming - is the tidiness of their neighbourhoods and the plague of litter.

'I don't know what the Astra passenger threw at my head, but whatever it was was, it wasn't just a piece of litter. It was a national disgrace.'

It was only four months ago that Mr Johnson saved a woman who was being attacked by a group of hoodies.

One of the gang was brandishing an iron bar, but that didn't stop Mr Johnson, who was cycling at the time, going to the aid of filmmaker Franny Armstrong when he heard her cry for help.

Shortly after signing the declaration of office at City Hall in May 2008, Mr Johnson outlined one of his key priorities was to make the streets of London safer.

Mr Johnson adopted a zero-tolerance policy against graffiti, fare-dodging and other minor crimes in the belief it will prevent more serious offending.

His clean-up campaign has had some soggy results. While cleaning up a river in South London last year, he tripped and fell in, getting wet up to his chest before stumbling away.

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1262091/Bike-riding-Boris-Johnson-takes-group-litter-louts-souped-Astra.html#ixzz0jelmhXKo

:shocked2: What next, Range Rovers in bus lanes

If there were more people around like him, maybe there'd be less anti-social behaviour.;)

There isn't a huge anti social behaviour problem everywhere you go in the UK, Boris is much better than the previous mayor though, hopefully no one ever votes for him again.

There isn't a huge anti social behaviour problem everywhere you go in the UK,

 

Maybe not, but in some areas it's virtually reached epidemic proportions.:dozey:

 

Boris is much better than the previous mayor though, hopefully no one ever votes for him again.

 

Red Ken? How that sycophant ever managed to become mayor, I shall never know.:dozey:

"'I know you is the mayor, and it was a accident'.

The conversation then continued on the street, after the culprit offered to get out of the car.

Mr Johnson asked 'why did you throw something at my head?'

The response, was it seems: 'Please, Mr Boris sir, this wasn't meant to happen.

'We know you is the mayor, man.

'We gotta lot of respect for the things you are doing.'"

 

"All appears to have ended amicably, with the litter louts promising 'we won't do it again' and asking 'can we have a photo, Mr Boris?'"

 

 

 

Oh my, Britain really is broken, this has to be the defining example of anti-social behaviour on an epidemic scale. They should lock those young louts up for life! They had no conscience and showed no remorse! String them up!!!

 

 

OH WAIT, it ended amicably and didn't end in him being threatened or stabbed. Britain really has gone to the dogs hasn't it.

This story just sounds like a load of bullshit, just like when he saved the climate change film-maker who voted against him in the mayoral election (And now she's "changed her vote because he was such a hero), she was paid off.

 

Johnson is such a hypocrite, in 1995 he ordered a fraudster to beat the shit out of a journalist who disagreed with his views, it was on tape, he's never been convicted of it. That's just one of the list of things that make Boris such a horrible ****.

If this guy were my dad, I would be horribly embarrassed.