Some Unusual Things I’ve Done!

Here are some of the more unusual things that I’ve done along the way:-

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Was medically and religiously circumcised at the age of 22 in order to marry my beautiful Israeli wife, and maybe Meatloaf had sang that he ”Would do anything for love, except THAT”, but I did it all for love, YES, even THAT😊!

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As a London PC, I disarmed a man brandishing a loaded gun using only my ‘tact and good humour’ as all that I had was a police-issued tin whistle and a truncheon to defend myself with, for which I was awarded a police commendation for bravery (or perhaps it was for ‘stupidity’)

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In 1991 as a London PC, I arrested a record number of criminals in one year, 164, mostly crime arrests, for which I was awarded a police commendation (read more HERE)

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As a London PC, faced molitov cocktails and stones thrown at me and my fellow officers by rioters in the 1981 Battersea riots only armed with a dustbin lid and my faithful truncheon

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When on duty at the Royal Wedding on 29 July 1981, the open carriage passed under the bridge that I was assigned to police, and Princess Diana looked up, spoke to Prince Charles next to her and pointed, smiled and then waved at me

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In 1984 as a PC during the ‘Maggie Thatchers’ miners strike, I went down a working coal mine in Nottinghamshire and witnessed the terrible & suffocating working conditions of the miners

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As a PC together with other officers, assisted in rescuing a baby from a burning house, for which we received a letter of commendation from the London Fire Brigade (read more HERE)

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As a London PC, I was seconded to be part of a secret undercover Scotland Yard operation that seized the (then) biggest haul of cocaine in London’s history. The suspects were arrested in possession of the drugs and they subsequently all received long prison sentences, I was also seconded to work for Special Branch and MI5 around this time

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I Drove an unmarked Rover SD1 police car on a police driver’s training course at 140 mph (225 kph) down the busy A40 Hendon Way in North London. Funnily enough, you could hear a pin drop inside the car as all the other occupants seemed to be holding their breath😊 (national speed limits do not apply to police vehicles on driver training courses:)!

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On 6 June 1995 on the anniversary of the Six Day War, I became the only then serving police officer to have beaten the London Metropolitan Police Service in court for Racial Discrimination (all previous cases had been settled ‘out-of-court’), and my case changed the English Race Relation Laws to include converts to a religion (read more HERE)

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In my later capacity of working at the Royal Thai Embassy, I met presidents, politicians, film directors, musicians, TV personalities etc., and toured the country on 4 seperate occassions as part of the Princess of Thailand’s entourage, I was responsible for the smooth running of the Royal motorcade 

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Drove a London Underground Train carrying fare paying passengers on a driver’s training course and also worked as a full time underground train guard operating the doors etc (read more HERE).

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Drove a big red London double decker bus through the busy streets of London on a driver’s training course

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When wearing a gas mask & waving 2 fluorescent red flags, I guided a single-proped crop spraying plane just a few feet over my head to spray the cotton fields with pesticides (I got soaked in pesticides but I haven’t grown two heads or other extra bits, so far:)!

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I lived and worked on an Israeli kibbutz, firstly picking grapefruits and then progressing to working in the cotton fields in charge of groups of volunteers spraying the fields with pesticides that ensured that the cotton was recognized as being the best quality that the country produced

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Had rockets fired whizzing over my head from the Hezbollah in Lebanon (they all missed & landed in nearby fields, but anyway I was oblivious to them as I carried on sleeping:)!

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I was a regular music panelist on Liverpool’s Liver Radio

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In my teens, I had met and spoken with Andy Warhol in London (read more  HERE)

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You can read Paul’s official short bio HERE and also check out more of Paul’s work as a song lyricist on his web site HERE and also HERE as well as Paul’s Facebook music profile HERE and Paul’s ‘band’ ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) Facebook profile HERE