Sword fiend at large
THE POLICE chased an LMH finalist into college last Friday after mistaking him for a homicidal maniac.
James Gledhill, an Historian, was returning from the Turf to LMH around nine o'clock having just finished Finals. Apparently he was wearing a Union-Jack emblazoned hat and wielding a plastic sword, which a passer-by took for a "samurai sword-wielding maniac."
Gledhill told the Oxford Student "the police had received a complaint from the public that a gentlemen covered in Union Jacks was attacking passers-by in the Parks with a samurai sword. I've no idea where it came from. I wasn't attacking passers-by, but somehow the police heard there was a sword-wielding maniac on the loose."
The police then tracked Gledhill to LMH, where they questioned several people regarding his description before the porter pointed them in the right direction.
They found Gledhill, naturally, in the bar where they asked him whether he had a sword. "I told them I had a plastic one, and eventually they realised it was just a drunken episode, although they had thought it was serious at first." He added, "You would think they would have been suspicious, your average homicidal maniac rarely makes such a spectacle of themselves."