I'm unduly irritated by the meat pie couple story going viral via the Gazette. A THREAD.
I thought this pair looked familiar, and then I realised it's the same couple I had on the side bar of the local news blog I ran from 2010 called The Nether Regions. Tony and Linda Gilkes.
I thought this pair looked familiar, and then I realised it's the same couple I had on the side bar of the local news blog I ran from 2010 called The Nether Regions. Tony and Linda Gilkes.
The whole point of the blog was to celebrate the way local newspapers have to resort to reporting on tedious local happenings which are strangely entertaining, often funny, and kind of charming. This story is none of those things. It's just crap.
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Here are a couple of the Gilkes' previous local news appearances, when they were given a court injunction for harassing their neighbours with endless complaints (106) and filming them on CCTV. They're probably not nice people. They're serial complainers.
When serial complainers win a complaint, especially via the media, they feel vindicated and will complain more. Now pies are on sale pre-9am, how long until the Gilkes are back harassing their neighbours? This time with pies thrown at neighbours' windows at the crack of dawn.
It's contrived bumph fed to the Gazette by two egomaniacs with a track record of trying to get in the local paper. The Gazette have lapped it up and written a story with the aim of going viral for the Paddy Power timeline demographic. Sad!
In summary this story - which is being held up as another example of 'haha tee hee' local news - is nothing of the sort. It's cynical and depressing. Come back to me when there's a visible face of Jesus in the pastry lid. END.
