Upon reflection the Council agreed that the “Hug a Bobby” campaign had been ill-conceived and badly mismanaged.
In an age of suicide bombers and rampant oral sex, the very act of hugging strange Londoners involved a great deal of danger for the police constables, both moral and physical. The city’s population had not responded with much enthusiasm anyway.
Of course, it didn’t help that their promotional poster showed Constable Berty Righnworm, standing in a pool of his own urine.
[From the Toulouse Le Grandfig Collection]
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