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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 My name is Ray Barrow, and I'm the Phantom Roll Thrower.
00:16 I was driving a baker's van, got a bit bored one day,
00:28 and see a bird on the side of the road.
00:30 So I thought I'd throw one of these rolls out for the bird,
00:33 because the bird needed something to eat.
00:36 And no problem with that.
00:38 But then I threw another one out at another time,
00:42 and it nearly hit someone.
00:44 And as I was young and stupid, and I think,
00:48 well, I quite enjoyed doing this.
00:50 So my sister Mary was sitting next to me,
00:53 and she said, let's do be the Phantom Roll Thrower.
00:57 So I said, well, what's that?
00:59 So she said, well, let's start throwing rolls out just
01:02 for a laugh, like.
01:03 So we did.
01:05 I'd throw a roll out, and then we went around the corner,
01:09 carried on.
01:10 Then we'd do it again, and we was giggling and laughing.
01:13 And anyway, it came up in the newspapers
01:15 that they were looking for the Phantom Roll Thrower.
01:19 And the Phantom Roll Thrower was obviously me.
01:22 I carried on doing it.
01:23 I didn't know it was in the newspapers.
01:25 It was in the news of the world, the best paper
01:27 and the most popular paper you could get.
01:31 A passerby was very clever.
01:33 He managed to get the number plate
01:35 before I drove off the last stage.
01:39 And so he reported to the police,
01:41 and they came knocking on my door
01:43 and asked me what had happened.
01:45 And they took me to court.
01:48 I had to go to court.
01:49 And they fined me.
01:52 I think they fined me 20 pound.
01:55 I just was bored with work.
01:57 And I think I was showing off
02:00 because my sister was sitting in the van.
02:02 She was only a kid.
02:04 I don't know, about 10 years old,
02:06 something like that, I guess.
02:08 And she started laughing when I threw the first one.
02:11 And it continued on from there.
02:14 We sort of, you know, I'm really sorry.
02:18 I should never have done this, you know,
02:20 especially when I was a kid.
02:22 I should never have done this, you know,
02:24 especially as some people were old,
02:27 and it was normally the old people
02:29 that I sort of threw them at, you know,
02:31 trying to hit them.
02:32 So that's what it is.
02:35 It was a silly, stupid, childish prank
02:38 that I should never be doing.
02:40 You know, it could have been dangerous.
02:42 I could have actually hit someone,
02:44 hit them in the eye with the roll or something like that.
02:46 And bearing in mind, these were stale rolls.
02:49 They wasn't soft rolls.
02:50 They wasn't new ones.
02:51 They were taken back to the depot to be --
02:54 they were going to be used for making bread pudding.
02:57 That's what they did in them days.
02:58 And I'd just like to apologize for it.
03:02 You brought it up, the subject.
03:03 I've actually forgotten it after a while.
03:05 But as you brought the subject up,
03:07 I started to feel a little bit bad about it now.
03:10 I really didn't -- shouldn't have done it.
03:12 Shouldn't have done it.
03:13 I am really sorry.
03:14 I'm really sorry, people.
03:16 people.
03:17 [BLANK_AUDIO]