Members of Caterpillar and their friends continued to attend a dinner at the Grosvenor Park Hotel despite being warned repeatedly that the hotel was defunct and in the way of a new vegetable garden and therefore due for demolition by duckdozer in the next five minutes.
The Clown Army specially purchased a duckdozer for 20p in clown money from Caterpillar for the occasion of demolishing the hotel. The officials at Caterpillar were very relaxed and easy-going and didn’t seem to mind that a few people might get horribly injured, killed and squashed under the rubble of the hotel. They told CIRCA to go ahead and enjoy themselves, the clowns looked like they would be very good at demolition and they were sure everything would go just fine.
Demolition, however, was halted at the last minute as the police strongly protested against duckdozing a hotel while people in evening wear were still having dinner inside.
Sergeant Plushie of the Met shouted, while waving a banner with ‘Free Palestine’ on it, “those bastards are threatening the health and safety of innocent families all over the world; in Nicaragua, Palestine and Mexico! They should be stopped and made to sign forms! Their Business as Usual attitude disgusts me! Resist! Disobey your orders! Join us in revolution and anarchy!!!!”
A Section 14 was imposed on the police, who refused to stay behind the invisible lines created by the clowns for their own safety. This inevitably led to police officers falling over and grazing their knees and getting banged on the head by falling bits of masonry from the hotel. There were lots of tears before bedtime.
Kommodore Koogie
(Health and Safety Executive Clown of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army)