When the radio is just too good
Posted on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 at 10:50pm. #
News from the Halifax Courier about a man who stole £15,000 to buy… radio sets. (via)
The story reads:
Stephen Hudson, 56, of Rishworthian Court, Copley, Halifax, surrounded himself with the radios – putting his favourite one in the middle – and often had them all on at the same time, a court heard.
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John Bull, prosecuting, said Hudson had admitted … he had taken the money and spent it all on radios. Police found about 50 wireless sets in his home.
Sadly for Stephen, his stealing spree only started in 2004, nine years after I’d broadcast my last Evening Bit of The Pulse, which (thanks to a high-powered transmitter less than two miles away from his house) would have filled his home with a badly-rotated choice of 90s music, a ‘catchphrase’ of adding the word “sunny” in front of any placename regardless of weather or indeed daylight, and daily information at 6.03pm to the effect that “The Pulse Rewind computer is now choosing a year, and we’ll hear a song from that year and every consecutive year until 7 o’clock”.
Mind: in a week where the uncharitable have been (wrongly) writing radio’s obituary, it’s good to know that even obsessive-compulsive criminals enjoy listening to the radio.
Photo: Mags L Halliday. Used under licence.
William T said at February 13th, 2008 at 11:43am 
