EYWandBTV

Please take precautions if departing Kings Cross station. Police are reporting that melees have erupted after miscreants placed whole and partial bagels on passengers' heads.

"Police were called to break up a fight on a train as rowdy passengers repeatedly placed bagels on other travellers’ heads. Officers arrived at Potters Bar station in Hertfordshire just after 1am on Sunday after being alerted to passengers fighting and intimidating others. The 12.54am Great Northern service from King’s Cross to Huntingdon was held for 18 minutes while the officers took statements."

Read all about it in today's Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...avellers-heads

PatrickLondon

Thank goodness it wasn't custard tarts.

Dukey1

After ONE <B>AM</B>????? Who's even UP at that hour?

EYWandBTV

Bagel miscreants, that's who!

thursdaysd

You sure this isn't April 1st? I notice it's not on the main page of the UK version of the site.

bilboburgler

"cake" news!

Macross

My friends live in Potters bar and her late night train trip reports are very funny.

EYWandBTV

Here's the video which was posted on twitter...how could it not be true??

https://twitter.com/DougieStew/statu...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

crellston

My mother in law lives in Potters Bar - I am going have to have a serious chat with her....

StCirq

Bagels??? I'm terrified! I don't want a partial one, though - what's the point?

PatrickLondon

If you've been out on the lash in London all evening, and are having to come back down to reality (or at least Potters Bar), then bagel-related shenanigans are the least one might expect.

Fra_Diavolo

In the old <i>New Yorker</i> this story would come under the heading, "There will always be an England."

willit

This is what happens when you let food religious origins into a country without extreme vetting.

Nikki

With or without cream cheese?

StCirq

Or lox. I mean, what's the point?

PatrickLondon

All a matter of taste, I know, but eating a bagel would not, for me, be that different from eating my hat, anyway.

dotheboyshall

Ruddy foreign muck, should have used crumpets

PatrickLondon

I'd imagine the last train to Potters Bar has on occasion seen something of the sort.