McCartney angers area cat

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From CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/13/britain.mccartney.ap/index.html):
"I thought someone was listening to a ghetto blaster in one of the other flats," local resident Eric Pemberton, 67, said of the noise. "I had the windows closed and the front door just open enough to let the cat in and out.

"It took me a while to realize that this bass was coming from the Dome on the other side of the river," said Pemberton, who lives in the London district of Tower Hamlets. The Dome is situated in the district of Greenwich, south of the Thames.

"I rang up the environmental health officers at the council and they told me 'It's Paul McCartney,"' Pemberton said. "I said 'So what? He doesn't pay my (taxes), and if it was me that was doing this I would have been prosecuted.'

"I thought it was quite unacceptable and even my cat was disturbed," he added.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

'area cat' is so my new e-mail alias.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"(taxes)"?

― Jim Cassius (J.Cassius), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

― Angry Area Cat (Andy K), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

local man in not realizing his place in society shockah. I thought English people knew about class.

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(taxes) = rates in the BBC edit, referring more to rent/mortgage

the cat was still disturbed

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 13 May 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

That is such an Onion headline.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 13 May 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy wins! (That's what I had in mind when I wrote it.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"McCartney bothers area cat" would have been better because then we could have made 8000 posts that said "PAUL MCCARTNEY IS A CAT-BOTHERER AND A SHEEP-WORRIER".

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

hey leave the sheep out of this.

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, wasn't there some weird news story years back where Paul and Linda were trying to make their dogs vegetarian and they just went nuts one day and devoured a sheep?

By "they" I mean the dogs.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

best thread title ever

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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