With extraordinary DB brilliance, Riddler has got his picture on page 3 of a national newspaper.. The Daily Mail! And it must be said that this articlle rivals the famous *Sun* story "Freddie Starr ate my Hamster"!!!!!!!!
Sadly, we do not get to see the 'hamster toupe' but we do see his lovely daughter and Herman the Hamster. This *must* be a eulogy to the fated Bisquithead!
For you Americans who will not see the article ('tho I expect Riddler has bought the local newsagent out of the newspaper in order to fill the expected demand from overseas) Riddler tore his pub apart (and YES, Riddler OWNS a pub!) in search of a tearway hamster. In the process of tearing up the floorboards in search of said hamster, Riddlers handyman expertise failed slightly as he nailed a water pipe with devastating effect. The resultant flood drenched his clientele who were dining below. After chainsaw-massacring two walls in the desperate seach, the rodent was rescued and Riddlers business is now in jeopardy!
Way to go Riddler!
Leaf
the lengths some people go for a bit of publicity! (p.s. I got his autograph on my
t-shirt! Reproductions available for a mere $20 )
Date: 12 Jan 97
From: Binky
Riddler writes:
The story made it to the national paper The Daily Mail and the last I heard it was going to be in tomorrows edition (Sat. 11th Jan) The Mail picked up the story from our local paper and flew a photographer over. One of the pics he took was of me with a hamster on my head but I'm hoping they will use the one of my daughter, Fiona.And here it is!!!!
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By DAVID DERBYSHIRE However, he and his wife Alison at least mended the broken heart of their 13year-old daughter Fiona, who had been pining for her lost pet. 'If he ever escapes again, knocking the entire pub down would be simpler,' Mr Breadner said yesterday.'But she does love that hamster. Herman escaped into a timber-clad wall space at feeding time after being panicked by the family's pet dog in Fiona's bedroom at the Waterfall Hotel in Glennaye, near Peel, Isle of Man. All that night, the family tried in vain to lure out the four-month-old rodent. Then 42- year-old Mr Breadner tore up the floorboards all to no avail.'Fiona was devastated and I thought Herman was a goner,' he said. Next day, with still no sign of Herman -- despite the floorboards being left up --he bought his daughter another hamster. 'But it didn't placate her -- she kept looking at the wall where Herman had disappeared.' Reluctantly, Mr Breadner started replacing the floorboards, and pierced a water pipe as he hammered home the final nail. Knowing the now would leak into the restaurant below, he desperately tore up the boards again, wrecking a fitted dressing table in the process. It was too late. Downstairs, diners were already drenched. The panicked publican poked a hole in the ceiling to stop water building up and called out a plumber. Hours later, he was still mopping up. Herman's fate seemed sealed. But over the next two nights, Mr and Mrs Breadner heard scatching from the wall. Without telling Fiona, they got a handyman to cut it open with a chainsaw -- and found nothing. So they sliced into the other side of the wall.., and there was Herman. 'We shone a torch and saw a little bundle of fur out of reach,' said Mr Breadner.'I got his water bottle and poured a few drops on his head, then he blinked and shook.' Over the next hour, Mrs Breadner reached down the jagged hole trying to coax the hamster on to her Finally, to cheers from customers, she hauled him out.'He was very thin and dehydrated,' said Mr Breadner.'But by the time Fiona got home from school, he was right as rain.' He is now awaiting the final repairs bill -- and hoping Fiona becomes a horse-lover like her 16-year-old sister Maddy.'I thought stable fees were expensive. But I've discovered keeping hamsters can cost a great deal more.' |
