You Have To Laugh

[Hopkirk]

The police are searching the Thames for the body of the chemical attack man.

They have found two bodies.

Neither of them are him.

[bednobs]

i dont get this - is it a joke?

[Pete65]

And that makes you laugh?

[Countrylover]

Why do we haveto laugh Hoppy?  I expect there are quite a few more

[Ellipsis]

Black humour. Two bodies have been found so far, neither of which are the suspect ...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/11/two-unexpected-bodies-recovered-from-thames-in-search-for-abdul-ezed

 

[Ellipsis]

Sorry, I broke the link - it's here:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/11/two-unexpected-bodies-recovered-from-thames-in-search-for-abdul-ezedi

[jno]

it says they weren't found as the result of the search for Ezedi. Might have just been routine patrols, I suppose that's what the river police do.

[douglas9401]

It's a pair, cop.

[andy-hughes]

I think black humour works face to face, for people who know each other well.

This is not either of those situations. 

[youngmafbog]

It's not surprising though is it.  I suspect there would be a fair few bodies found in some parts of it.

[Untitled]

i agree with hopkirk... i do think it is funny in a grim way

[Barsel]

It's like the buses. You wait ages for one then two turn up.

[roopower]

I don't find that funny at all.

[barry1010]

There's on average 22 bodies a year found in the Thames, just under 2 a month.  They've found this month's quota already

[Paul22118]

A man in the know once told me that if you scoured the bed of the Thames fifty yards either side of a bridge, one would need several articulated trucks to take away the firearms alone.

[DTCwordfan]

Paul, someone needs to rifle around through the dark, dank water.....

As to finding other bodies, it is rther ironic that they, the fezz, find more and I can't say 'it all comes out in the Wash' as the Thames doesn't exit there - one of these days the old crown jewels dating from King John's times will emerge, probably with even more bodies/skeletons.

 

[Peter Pedant]

Lizzie Hexham, in Our Mutual Friend did that ( hauled bodies from the  Thames)  - Bradley Headstone ( who falls in love with someone) was played by Warren Mitchell

[Peter Pedant]

yeah with all the skeletons shown kissing each other ( Marchioness in 1120) White Boat disaster - a right royal gay reunion. The king's eldest son was drowned [ william adelin ] along with all the gay young bloods of the court

No one dared tell the King ( Henry I) for three days

[jno]

didn't some of Henry's other (illegitimate) children also die?

Even in the Three Men in a Boat, a young woman's body is found in the Thames.

[construct1245]

It's more sad than it is funny

[jno]

story here about finding bodies on the Thames - roughly one a week

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/14/the-cruel-thames-the-job-of-pulling-bodies-from-a-dark-dangerous-river