NationStates Jolt Archive

They are the very model of a modern cell of terrorists
They come to blow up restaurants and kill off celebrity chefs
in short, they're vexed by house prices rising indefatigable
and plan to set explosives with a desire to kill you all.

I heard this on the 10am radio news. Apparently a terrorist organisation, the "Cornwall Liberation Army" I think, have threatened the restaurants of various celebrity chefs, including Rick Stein, blaming them for an influx of people and rising house prices.

It takes all sorts, eh?

The story wasn't repeated on the 11am news, and I've not got a web-link for it yet, so it might be a hoax. Apologies if it is, or if I've mis-remembered anything, but I'd already thought up the parody and was desperate to post it ;p

Edit:

A web source, courtesy of Sky News! (http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1270327,00.html)

But the Cornish National Liberation Army (CNLA) sent a threatening email to Plymouth-based Western Morning News newspaper.

It said local people had approached their activists "for assistance" against Stein - described as "this English newcomer".

The email said it was "common knowledge" that Stein and his businesses were "held in contempt" by Cornish nationals who live in the Padstow area.

So, the "Cornish National Liberation Army" are the new kids on the block! And to think we're so busy with all the ebil Muslims...

To be fair, it's a wonder gentrification doesn't cause violent protests more often. [/too serious]

I find it peculiar that they're targetting only the swanky restaurants, though.

There could be some truth to this story, I seem to remember coming across a story a week or two back about how locals in Cornwall are up in arms about rising house prices, and those rich city bastards buying up local homes as holiday homes, and leavinf towns half empty for the majority of the year.