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May day students defy jump ban
1 May 2009Four students defied a police cordon and a university ban today to jump from Magdalen Bridge into the Cherwell in Oxford
The Oxford Brookes students got past 30 officers who were trying to prevent the May Day tradition.
English and drama student Naomi Stokes, 20, said: “It was a bit cold but definitely worth it.”
Earlier, more than 6,000 revellers fell silent as choristers sang a Latin Mass to welcome in the summer.
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I agree with Frank; it is not illegal to jump off bridges or anywhere else.
The British have always been a little eccentric; that is what made Britain great.
Today Britain is full of pansies and mummies boys.
If the police and the pansies want to protect the Nation from decline and degradation by eccentrics; then stop selling booze would be a good idea; but then we would get the prohibition doesn’t work brigade in here, telling us why it won’t work etc.
Like Frank, I think; let them jump their hearts out; I know I did once, I used to jump in the Grand Union canal with dead animals in it; and barges passing all the time; I even did things like that in the Thames; but it was not though harmful then; and it was cheaper than going to the swimming pool; where they charged us poor kids sixpence to swim in clean water; trouble with that was; nobody had a sixpence to spend.
OK the likes of possibly Frank; and definitely my-self, are now immune to most infections, as our bodies developed a resistance to germs and dirt; but what about you pansies today?
- Mickyinlondon, london, 04/05/2009 16:56
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Students defying the police?
Whatever next?
- Reuben Camara, Morecambe UK, 04/05/2009 08:49
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The police can do no right with you, can they Frank. It is sad that there are people who can't see beyond their prejudices under any circumstances. The police were trying to PROTECT these people from themselves while under the influence.
Get a life Frank.
- Rogan, Irving, 01/05/2009 19:28
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Frank you fool, take you politics to the right forum!
It is because most of the people jumping are drunk out of there heads and end up hurting themselves.
It is you taxes that have to pay for the clear up!
- Not Exactly A Looney Lefty!, The real world, 01/05/2009 16:47
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What exactly is the illegality of jumping? Is some minority offended by the action?
- Frank, Home Counties, England., 01/05/2009 15:52
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