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Diary: Residents mistake flowerpot for drowning man – and call the fire brigade

Fri 27 May

Don't go too near the edge of the riverbank boys…

Fri 27 May 2016  @ 9:08pm
Chris Titley
News

False alarms are one of the hazards of being a firefighter.

But this one was unusual to say the least.

When word reached the emergency services that a man was in the river, fire crews from York, Acomb and Huntington scrambled into action.

Fortunately however, no one had even got their feet wet, as the official bulletin from North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue service on Wednesday (May 25) revealed:

Crews found that students had thrown a large flowerpot into the river which had been mistaken for a person by local residents.

Which invites a number of questions, the primary one: how do you mix up a flower pot with a human being? Unless your best buddies are Bill and Ben of course…

 
Congratulations to all the winners at the VisitYork York Tourism Awards on Thursday night (May 26).

But the award for best restaurant stirred things up more furiously than a Kenwood Chef, on Twitter at least.

The honour went to The Whippet Inn, the steakhouse on North Street.

However, no sooner was it announced than it was questioned on Twitter:

Best restaurant with a 1 star hygiene rating ..fucking hell ???????????????? #york https://t.co/OSiEnPPRca

— Karl (@dustytruffle) May 26, 2016

Which led one of the runners-up, Star Inn The City, to pile in:

@dustytruffle @VisitYork really bad message sent out for tourism standards with lowest score hygiene winning any awards….??

— Star Inn The City (@Starinnthecity) May 26, 2016

Director of operations at Star Inn The City Matt Hunter joined in the food fight:

Happy to be considered & no sour grapes but how was a 1/5* food hygiene restaurant awarded #1 in #York #VYTA16 @VisitYork unbelievable

— Matt Hunter (@sprouthunter) May 26, 2016

Soon Andrew Whitney, boisterous Aussie owner of the Whippet Inn, hit back –

If @StarInnTheCity spent their time looking after customers instead of picking fights, they may have come 2nd 😉 pic.twitter.com/Oc61h78UqA

— Andrew G. Whitney ✈ (@AU55SEY) May 27, 2016

And threw this in for good measure…

How funny, @StarInnTheCity kicking off, it was their @ChefMichaelCW who caused our 1* #PoorLosers, they came 3rd at best to @TheRattleOwl!!

— Andrew G. Whitney ✈ (@AU55SEY) May 26, 2016

Well you know what they say. If you can’t stand the heat…

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