also due to boredom as well as being drunk
although mostly through being drunk
after kicking out time (early on a sunday) on one of those balmy nights last summer, decided to hold a party on the grassy roundabout (pic, behind war protesters:) community.webshots.com/s/image5/9/25/61/62392561KcwYqK_ph.jpg) at one end of the Kingsway in Swansea... cue several crates of lager, lambrini and plastic cups (I kid you not, I'm v domestic, no doilies though)...ended up going on for 3-4 hours and with about 20 people... coppers kept driving past but partygoers were placated by free booze, sitting-on-the-grass vibes, and someone playing guitar and peeps singing...so no trouble.. until some eejit started setting off fireworks at about 4am and managed to set the bush of leaves at the top of the palm tree in the middle of the roundabout on fire..cue mass giggling flight, and mirthful calling fire brigade ("the tree's on fire, hee-hee, on the roundabout, haha.") a few days later the local daily rag had a story that the council/police were planning to open a wet house on the kingsway so pissed-up-idiots would have somewhere to go if they didn't want to go home...hasn't happened yet
(pomegranate, Fri 19 Mar 2004, 12:16, Reply)