London mayor chases off woman's attackers

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LONDON - London Mayor Boris Johnson rescued a woman attacked by a group of girls wielding a metal bar after answering her plea for help during an evening bicycle ride, a spokeswoman for his office said on Wednesday.

Documentary filmmaker Franny Armstrong was confronted by a group of young teenage girls as she was walking in North London on Monday night, media reported.

"I was texting on my phone so didn't notice the girls until they pushed me against the car," the Guardian newspaper quoted Armstrong as saying. "I saw that one of them had an iron bar in her hand. It was more than a meter long."

"Then along came a cyclist. And I thought, 'Good, he's a big bloke,' and shouted, 'Can you help me please?," The Guardian reported.

"I said, 'That's the mayor of London!' and they ran off," Armstrong told the Guardian. "They must have thought they were going to get in trouble. One dropped the bar, so Boris picked it up and cycled after them."

Johnson, a Conservative, was elected mayor in 2008. After the rescue he then walked Armstrong home.

She said that although she had voted for his Labour opponent Ken Livingstone in last year's election, Johnson might be the tougher of the two if you ever found yourself in trouble down a dark alleyway.

"He was my knight on a shining bicycle."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33619940/ns/world_news-europe/

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Reminds me of an early episode of Peep Show.

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Actually, this reminds me of some campaign literature I read for a candidate for mayor of Ulan-Ude, a city in Eastern Siberia. The pamphlet included almost a dozen stories about the man that essentially totaled to, vote for this man because he is a stud that crushed evildoers with his bare hands.

One of the stories was about him rescuing a girl in a deserted park from a rape-gang. But instead of just running off, the gang started beating him and chasing her. The story ends in her apartment where they all run to. He, of course, is the last man standing although he is gored by several kitchen knives.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Boris Johnson is more Mark Corrigan than John Rambo

[Nik+Heather 121]

And here I thought it was the first scene in a romantic comedy...

or maybe the middle scene in another Pride and Prejudice-y one

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this sounds staged