February 8, 2008
Several times in Guru’s life he has longed to put a pillow case over his bank manager’s head, stick a gun in his back and throw him in the back of a Ford Transit.
So it was great to see some West Country bank workers after his own heart give their boss Tony Sharp a 40th birthday to remember.
Sharp’s ‘friend’ Les Allen led a troop of 12 of Sharp’s colleagues in kidnapping the Penzance HSBC branch manager and holding him at gunpoint.
As further punishment, he was driven to Penzance railway station, although the kidnappers drew the line before the ultimate punishment of sending him to Plymouth.
Of course, the whole ordeal was merely a prank – revenge by Allen for the time Sharp hung from a road bridge a 10ft by 8ft poster of him emerging from the shower. Apparently it had to be enlarged that much so everything could be seen.
Guru would like to pay tribute to these enterprising bank workers on a joke well executed – but Yours Truly did wonder what happened back at the base.
Would it not have been ironic if while the staff of HSBC’s Penzance branch were busy kidnapping their manager, a van load of real robbers had broken into the safe of the unattended bank?
They could have afforded enough posters of the cash they stole to hang over every road bridge throughout Devon and Cornwall. ENDS
