Loosely on topic as we did share the same building…
This tale starts back in ‘73 when I was leaving the pit town I live in to study further at University in Manchester.

I was lucky enough to move into a single room apartment thanks to my dad pulling a few strings with his mates so I didn’t have the horror of sharing a space with some drop out nutter who could easily distract me from my education (His words exactly).

The place itself was a dive and I did my best to make it habitable. I was also amused that thanks to my dads attempt to keep me away from nutters he had moved me into a place that housed the biggest nutcase I have ever met, S a bloke who lived upstairs.

I heard that he had something to do with the police but my guess is that was just made up by the other people that lived in the same block as me. I will admit that I did see the same policewoman pass me on to go to see him on several occasions but S seemed too strange to work at a police station.

My guess is that he was a recovering drug addict as if you passed him on the stairway he was a sound bloke, when he was in his apartment however I would constantly hear him having arguments with noone in particular.

Almost every night I can remember getting home to hear S yelling at the TV even though there was nothing on (As I mentioned earlier this was in the 70’s and the test card came on most of the night).

Anywhoo this went on for quite a while and he would usually go out with his mates (A local hard man and a couple of lackeys) and return at night to shout at nothing. I realised that as time wore on I began to turn a bit strange myself as I started to look forward to listening to these nightly rants.

Then it stopped.

I finally plucked up the courage to speak to S a few weeks later and asked him about the nighttime arguments etc.

Turns out that he had a chance to return to 2006 and didn’t really like it anymore. I may have only shared a wall with him but the strangest bloke I have ever shared a place with will always be Sam Tyler.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 10:42, 4 replies)

You had me
right up until the last line. Then the bit about the police woman made sense.
(Pill Popper Thank you Sasha Shulgin, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 11:01, closed)

Brilliant.
And much better than all the starwars puntraps. *clicks*
(Foxinsockssir, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 15:37, closed)

Hook, line, and sinker.
Has anyone seen the american remake? It just doesn't have the same magic. Just last week (for me, anyway. I live in NZ) their Sam spontaneously started reciting "Ice Ice Baby" in the middle of a hostage situation.
(Helixdaunting, Wed 4 Mar 2009, 0:53, closed)

The American Remake
is ok, but I never really expected it to be as good as the UK version anyway.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Wed 4 Mar 2009, 10:07, closed)