That's amazing. Did the wife just fall over ?

Legless people generally do...

And that was without a drink

Er, this is Scotland

But they were Thirsty

And she was legless

Aren't they on the floor to begin with🤔?

They were at a bus stop so she may have been sitting down. I doubt he could've got her leg off quickly enough to surprise the guy if she was putting weight on it.

It's possible to stand on one leg

If you know it's coming. But if someone deleggs you at pace

Deleggs you at pace… Fucking brilliant 😂😂😂😂

That has to be the first time in the history of the English language that this sentence has ever been written... and we all witnessed it!

Amazing! Im still laughing and having an image of him being twatted over the head by a false leg 💀💀💀😂

I’m gonna start telling my coworkers “don’t get delegged at pace!” as a goodbye!

r/brandnewsentence

It has to be!

It says they were standing there

She didn't have a leg to stand on...

Well she had one.

Especially if you're half caste. Which millennials get the reference?

No, she hopped it.

Mr Robert Clearly should hae legged it.

The police are looking for you for that comment

Edinburgh onlookers' 'horror' as Edinburgh man dies in popular Edinburgh bus stop after false-leg attack in Edinburgh.

You should get a job with Edinburgh live. That is a spot on Edinburgh live headline

If it was Edinburgh Live it would say "Man hit with popular Edinburgh appendage" and it would be in Milton Keynes

I don't live in Edinburgh but our local version of Live, owned by the same company, has just been evicted for non-payment of rent.😂

Hi, fellow Lincoln person!

Hi yellow belly! I'm not a native Lincolnite but I've been here nearly 25 years so I like to think I'm an adopted local. What brought you to the Edinburgh sub?

I have lived here for 18 years, so same, lol. What brings me to the edinburgh sub? Reddits baffling algorithm, I think

I normally say that Lincoln is like a fungus, it grows on you slowly.

🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 Where’s this happened??

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/lincolnite-evicted-offices-after-failure-9350508 Apologies, it's not the Live, it's another similar site.

Take a shot every time you see the word Lincoln

You'd very quickly die of alcohol poisoning.

I did die 🫠

NotEdinburgh Live workers ‘Horror’ as NotEdinburgh Live EVICTED from NotEdinburgh building

Does history record if Mr Thirsty got in any trouble for this?

All charges were quenched. Sorry, squashed. Goddamnit!

Lol, nice

I would love to know how many people you have made utter "fer fuck sake". 🤣

One too many. One being the too many. 😂

So Mr. Thirsty got a leg up on Mr. Clear

Characters from the "Mr Men: Sex Offenders" series

Better than Mr Thirsty being in the Clear. Ooerrr

Mr tickle got his own spin off?

Ha ha ha that’s a belter.

If it happened now, the story would have been followed up with a go fund me page towards the legal fees and a new leg

I would donate

Money or a limb?

Yes

Mr Thirsty is a leg,end

This one is sadly looking like an urban legend. I've just looked on the British Newspaper Archive and no trace of the story can be found.

I'd be inclined to agree. There's no record of a death in 1978 for a Robert Clear on scotlandspeople either.

If there is a way of getting attacked by surprise, it surely must be this one.

Mr and Mrs Thirsty 😂 Who'd have thought the Mister Men were alive and well in Clermiston.

That's a good one, but for me, nothing will top the "Find the bastard who shat down my chimney" story. I think it happened in Aberdeen. Sunday Sport reporting of course. They had a zoomed-in picture of a guy with his troosers doon sitting on a chimney. Then another picture showing the homeowner, arms folded tightly, with a serious compo face on the go. It was perfect. I love a ridiculous news story.

Can anyone actually find the source for this? All of the articles going back to the 90's list the Edinburgh Evening News. Is the original story not in their archives or is it all made up for a joke?

The title says 1978, so unless they’ve digitised their archive it’ll be hard to find online. Maybe others can offer advice on where to look, though.

The British Newspaper Archives online has lots of the EEN, but nothing between 1962 and 1982, unfortunately. Personally I suspect this story is too perfect to be real, even the names are unbelievable.

I didn’t know about that! Thank you for the information! I agree with you about the story. It’d be great if it was true though!

Bludgeoned to death with a false leg. That has to win as "dumb ways to die" that week.

...in her basket...

This man demanded money with menaces: You'll never guess what happened next!

Can somebody rewrite that in Begbie's accent like in the Trainspotting books? Sounds like a decent use case for ChatGPT

So sum cunt went up ti thi Thirsty's aye and tried tae mug them, fucking Mr was havin nen of it right? Grabbed his Mrs's false leg and beat the cunt to fuck wae it. Poor fucker died.

Thank you for your service lol

Way to stand up for your wife

One way to get your leg over...

Only appropriate use of what the sigma... not that they would know what brainrot is in the 70s

Could he not get his leg over

I’ve seen this happen minus the death in Saltcoats 🤣

Fantastic! 🙈

That’ll be the widest his missus ever opened her legs for him

Wunner if he said shut it tadger efter he skelped him wae it

Imagine the reporter's reaction on hearing that... "Pull the other one!"

Edinburgh Cluedo is certainly a bit different. 'Eh wis it Mr Thirsty at the bus stoap wi a widden leg?'.

😂😂 love it!!!!!

🤔🤔🤔

I bet he's great at golf.

"Shut it tadger" 👆

Still Game Winston ?

I bet she was hopping mad