Entries from Londonist tagged with 'leopard'
September 13, 2008
70. The Thamesmead Prowler During the early hours of Saturday 10th August at Goldfinch Road, west Thamesmead, a man awoke and peered around his curtain into the blackness of the night. A small animal startled him in the distance as it scurried around a corner into the gloom, but what shocked him even more was its pursuer. A large black animal seemed to begin to roll on the grass between two trees. "Bloody Hell!......
Continue Reading "The Saturday Strangeness"December 29, 2007
33. Big Cat Round Up 2007 was a record year for my own research into ‘big cat’ sightings – www.kentbigcats.blogspot.com – although London and the infamous ‘beast of Bexley’ was reasonably quiet, this proved to me that such animals had wider territories. In January a black leopard was seen at Bexley by a Miss Skinner as she walked her dog. The massive cat sped across a field. A few days later, two yellowy-green eyes......
Continue Reading "The Saturday Strangeness"March 19, 2007
The Beast of Bexley has been spotted again… … this time carrying off a bloodied, wailing infant in its foul, be-slavered jaws. Not really. But that would be really cool, wouldn't it? Or rather, no, that would be terrible and tragic and cause for sorrow. Is "be-slavered" a real word? No one can say for sure who or what the Beast of Bexley is, but two facts are undisputed: 1.) it has been seen......
Continue Reading "BoB Encounters Of The Furry Kind"March 10, 2006
The Government today begins a consultation process to decide whether or not to give Ken greater power over the rail services. And talking of Ken and transport: he announced yesterday that kids under 11 will travel free on Tube. With one proviso: "You have got to be able to control them." The man accused of stabbing a teacher to death in his home in Chiswick has claimed it was an accident. The BBC writes about......
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