A whale of a time

I keep saying it over and over, but it bears repeating: there will ALWAYS be an England, because there is nothing like English people.  They generally do things in an efficient fashion, usually with a great deal of humor attached, such as when they went out and got Trump Lite to be their prime minister.

But last Friday showed again why the sun will never set on the British Empire.

There was a terror attack on the London Bridge, carried out by a British-born, previously-convicted terrorist, but he didn't get far in his getaway, because...

...a Polish immigrant clobbered him with a five-foot narwhal tusk.

This terrorist was now a murderer as he ran off, waving his deadly knife, but the intrepid English people went right after his sorry behind. Their intervention prevented more death and mayhem. Two people were stabbed fatally.

At least three men (one of whom is a convicted murderer, by the way) chased the bad guy down. One had the narwhal tusk, one let him have it with a stream from a fire extinguisher (another effect weapon!) and one used good old hands and feet as his weapons.

Jethro Tull

My whaling days were limited by my aversion to wailing, so I didn't know what a "Narwhal tusk" was when I went to look it up to write about it. My research was slowed considerably because I thought at first the news said he threw "Jethro Tull" at them, although, now that I think about it, forcing a evildoer to listen to "Aqualung" or "Thick As A Brick" all the way through might be an ever better deterrent to crime than a fire extinguisher.

A narwhal is a type of whale that needed orthodontic care in his teenaged days. That is one B.A. canine tooth he's got going on there, and l imagine the narwhal has every few enemies in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and Russia, where he lives under his real name Monodon monoceros.

A narwhal tusk was hanging nearby at Fishmongers Hall, ready for the hero, identified only as Lukasz, to grab and use in subduing that bad man. The police came along and shot the terrorist to death, and Lukasz is being nominated for a heroism award in his native Poland.

In emergencies, you will always find people who are willing to talk and talk and yakety yak. Some people step up and take action! Even if it's with something most of us never heard of before.