TWO FAT CROWS AND A FATTER CANARY



A story that comes to mind from under the tree is as follows, as a lot of you would know at Boomerang our club colours were black and gold, most of the male players purchased black track suits with a bit of gold stripe on them, but George Nuss had to be a bit different, he bought black pants and a gold track suit top. Anyhow on one "off fixture night" George, Joe Williams & Peter Creevey took a few stubbies under the tree after the courts had closed.

They were hoping that the local police officers didn't come and pay them a visit that night, the usual practice was to take a few extra stubbies out in case we had a call from either Paul's Security Officers or the local boys in blue, sometimes they got a bit thirsty while out on patrols and they knew where they could quench their thirsts, and on normal fixture nights there was always a few extra taken out just in case we had a visit.

This night we didn't have any extra stubbies and of course the police car went past and did a U-turn obviously coming back for a thirst quencher, so George, Joe and Peter climbed up the tree, hoping they hadn't been seen, when the police car pulled up under the tree the sarge said I was sure I saw the squash boys under here.

One of the constables got out of the car and Nussy couldn't stop giggling, and of course he shone his torch up the tree and said no sarge no squash boys here but there two big fat crows and an even fatter canary up here.

We all had a laugh and explained it was an off fixture night, and that we would see them the next night if they were in the vicinity, and the next night they were in the area again, and the whole mob under the tree had another laugh when the police sarge told the story of what happened the night before.