LA Podcast 162: The Fascist Octopus has Sung its Swan Song

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Fire Brigade praised by RSPCA for coming to the aid of a bullied parakeet.
• Online fraudster lands major book deal after raunchy phishing scripts go viral. 
• Pirate cafe fails to float everyone's boat.
• Local newspaper apologises for suggesting children should be sacrificed when confronted with a cougar attacked.

Also revealed: We plan a trip to the Magic Kingdom...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you all for your continued support, see you in 2016!

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LA Podcast 161: Overzealous Pursuit of a Man who allegedly Dropped Litter

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Man assaulted by fish tank.
• Rumours of Peter Gabriel auditioning monkeys for new project spread. 
• Police Christmas tree far from arresting.
• Football fan outsmarted by mascot.

Also revealed: We champion a new nickname for Mr Duncan Smith MP...

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LA Podcast 160: The Thought Processes of Fantasist Americans who want to Control the World

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Hair and beauty students learn how those with mental illness change light bulbs.
• Woman defends noise complaint against neighbour's cries for help.
• Man accidentally attends yet another racist puppet show.
• Organisers admit that event theme of 'burn the disabled' may not have been in the spirit of Christmas.

Also revealed: Alex gets a belated birthday/early Christmas present...

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LA Podcast 159: Human Slaughter in Correct Conformity with the Marquess of Queensbury Rules

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

Christmas lights resembling pair of pants get taken down.

African head of state beginning to resemble sci-fi villain.

Sale of massive knitted bra reveals knockers from far and wide.

Idiots register interest in purchasing glorified shed.

Also revealed: We revisit a well-loved cop show...

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LA Podcast 158: A Naked, Wet and Incoherent Man

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Disgruntled builder exacts revenge on local 'celebrity'.
• Charity bake sale takes unexpected erotic turn.
• NHS to begin recruiting specialist pigeons to replace junior doctors.
• 80 mile 'other realm' golden bridge fails to reunite man with former lover.

Also revealed: Rob has a new job...hopefully

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LA Podcast 157: An Out-of-Date Drink with Mould and Rot Floating Inside

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Local paper takes up residence in newly opened Awesome Tower.
• Man outraged after supermarket chain refuses to pay off mortgage in compensation for mouldy drink.
• Fast food giant attempts to sue ex-employee for excess use of ketchup.
• Another deplorable Hunt speaks out against Corbyn.

Also revealed: Rob admires some Turkish topiary...

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LA Podcast 156: Putting a Can of Deodorant through a Self-Service Till as a Banana

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Security guard stolen by shoplifter.
• Woman speaks out after vicious attack leaves her unable to hold hors d'oeuvre plate at parties.
• Phat Duong threatened by King Kong following alleged damage to his Ferrari.
• Witness confused by what constitutes a big cat.

Also revealed: We pitch a light-hearted cartoon about a serial shoplifter and her crazy antics...

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LA Podcast 155: A Half Submerged Crocodile on Top of a Coffin, Freddy Krueger, a Floral Pacemaker and Other Unusual Funeral Flower Requests

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

Woman retreats to Scotland to avoid comparisons to comedy scarecrow.

Serial adulterer Tom Jones struggles to understand wife's depression.

Falcons make break for freedom following failed record attempt.

Well-endowed Spiderman has breakdown at children's party.

Also revealed: We debated on whether to call an ambulance...

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LA Podcast 154: I'm Ronnie F**king Pickering!

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Man protects baby from teenager brandishing confetti.
• Tories unveil plans to tax the under-threes.
• Foul play leaves grandfather heartbroken.
• Husband's anger at emergency services delay in responding to his letter requesting urgent assistance.

Also revealed: We consider recording a Spanish language podcast called 'La Podcast'...

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LA Episode 153: David Cameron: An Insidious, Vindictive, Vile Excuse of a Man

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Prime Minister banned from West Yorkshire pig race fundraiser.
• Couple enjoy trip to local park to feed the rats.
• Man forcibly removed from children's party after performing unsettling pigeon 'trick'.
• Decapitated gingerbread man sparks police investigation in Derby.

Also revealed: We give instructions on how to judge a book by its cover...

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LA Episode 152: A Giant Continental Rabbit with a Permanent Head Tilt

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Local idiot digs own grave.
• Zoo owner denies taking frustration out on animals after failed license renewal.
• Scruff man wins political talent show.
• Abusive marketing strategy works wonders for failing restaurant.

Also revealed: We discuss the New World Order...

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LA Episode 151: Permitting Outsiders to Bring Their Disgusting Habits and Tempting our Young Folk

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Abstract retelling of Lewis Carroll's classic entitled Tony Blair in Wonderland opens to mixed reviews.
• Bournemouth residents demand a better class of tramp.
• Anonymous vigilante remains anonymous.
• Misleading 'ponies and puppies' event provokes outrage in Welsh village.

Also revealed: Is Alex the victim of an elaborate washing machine based prank...

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LA Episode 150: Incredible Response to Bacon Complaint

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Supermarket pulls crunch fish finger range after safety concerns.
• Grandmother attempts to stage amateur production of West Side Story with gang of feral peacocks found in kitchen.
• Channel 5 denies exploring viability of migrant themed game shows after receiving ill-conceived list of concepts via e-mail.
• Customer complains to supermarket. Supermarket responses.

Also revealed: A strange, talking, Cockney Weetabix...

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LA Episode 149: "Scumbag Numpty's who are Out of Work, Loaded with Testosterone & are Druggies"

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Bragging criminal fails to impress petrol station cashier.
• Protests continue as Jack the Ripper museum fails to adequately convey plight of suffragettes.
• Company refuses to collect skip containing light aircraft.
• Rotting fish corpse thought to be prop from low budget film 'Pikenado!'

Also revealed: We discuss the merits of the Natural History Museum...

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LA Episode 148: A Cheetah on the Moon

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com 

Stories this week include:

• Serial gardener wanted by police.
• Beloved lawn ornament makes a break for freedom.
• Notorious Norfolk biker gang believed to be behind string of broken marriages.
• Unconfirmed sightings of weaponised falcon reported over Kent.

Also revealed: Rob camps it up...

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LA Episode 147: The Litigious and Greedy Society We Live In

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com 

Stories this week include:

• Course designed for able-bodied to experience disability branded offensive and tasteless.
• Man claims to have domesticated seagull.
• Jeremy Hunt delayed response to #ImInWorkJeremy backlash due to extended weekend break.
• Woman hunted down by supermarket chain following mouldy sweetcorn complaint.

Also revealed: We drop some hints...

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LA Episode 146: Intercourse with Demons

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com 

Stories this week include:

• Investigative journalist secures exclusive interview with woman during act of public urination.
• Man fails to explain unexpected erection following supermarket trip.
• Melodramatic mother manages to ruin son's birthday yet again.
• Big cat in Gloucestershire believed to have acquired firearms.

Also revealed: The Woodland Murder Detectives face an uncertain future…

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LA Episode 145: A Set of Bloody Three-Toed Footprints and Some Shed Reptile Skin Nearby

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com 

Stories this week include:

• Dinosaur eggs designed to 'inspire imagination' triggers state of panic among children in primary school.
• Residents express anger after neighbour's extension blocks out sun.
• Michael Jackson impersonator struggles to light candle.
• Party members throw backing behind 'Vote Labour and Win a Microwave!' slogan ahead of the 2020 election.

Also revealed: Rob tells some 'jokes'...

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LA Episode 144: Persistently Making Use of a Public Electronic Communications Network for the Purpose of Causing Annoyance, Inconvenience or Needless Anxiety

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com 

Stories this week include:

• Fossil hunter finds dog sized dinosaur skeleton in Wales.
• Family request information after theft of hideous garden ornament.
• Local vigilante remains anonymous despite revealing identity.
• Man loses perspective after close encounter with pike.

Also revealed: We reveal a cunning plan...

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LA Episode 143: Another Human Right Crushed by a Judicial Puppet

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Production company needlessly slaughters dinosaur to promote film.
• Reputable door-to-door fish salesman vilified by police.
• Buzzard continues reign of terror in local park.
• Driver claims severe damage to car following accident appeared to aid performance.

Also revealed: We discuss the benefits of electoral fraud.

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LA Episode 142: A Nice Comfortable Place for Mature, Sensible People to Come and Enjoy Themselves

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com 

Stories this week include:

• NHS cuts hit hard in Scotland.
• Davis Attenborough apologises for wanton destruction of theme park model.
• New record price set for bottle of Cherryade by Welshman.
• Adult cinema withdraws concessionary membership for under 18s.

Also revealed: We extinguish the camp fire...

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LA Episode 141: Revenge of the Amazing Pube Beard Man

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com 

Stories this week include:

• Unexplained rise in anti-social behaviour linked to guest ale in South East London.
• Middle class revealed to be stealing from John Lewis for fun.
• Woman denies being hero after strangling woodland creature.
• Fantasist apologises to friends and family after local paper story greatly exaggerates boring stag do.

Also revealed: We make some generalisations...

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LA Episode 140: Pathetic Miscreants Living a Soulless Existence

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

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Stories this week include:

• MP triumphs over local dog to win marginal seat.
• Hospital praises contractor for cutting costs of confidential waste disposal.
• Aggressive beggars ruining area for upstanding casual drinkers.
• Visiting celebrity coerced into promoting under threat tourist attraction.

Also revealed: We invade Instagram (We're @lapodcast in case you're interested)...

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LA Episode 139: £160 in Cash, Bank Cards, a Travel Pass and a Memory Stick of Photos of a Holiday to Arizona for a Friend’s Wedding

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com 

Stories this week include:

• Farage has photo taken with potential immigrants in petrol station.
• Cowboy mourns loss of wallet following near fatal heart attack.
• Footballer caught scoring sacked by club.
• Sex cinema reveals stiff members only policy.

Also revealed: We fail to learn from our mistakes...

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LA Episode 138: Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

Listeners can submit stories via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or e-mail: lapodcast.net@gmail.com 

Stories this week include:

• Missing parrot berated for woeful grasp of English.
• Search for naked pervert builds to climax.
• Legless individual cons taxi driver out of fare.
• Good Samaritan criticised over questionable call to emergency services.

Also revealed: Rob enquires about a celebratory pint...

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LA Episode 137: World Shattering Cutting-Edge Community Journalism at its Very Best!

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

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Stories this week include:

• Fisherman redefines what constitutes high-speed chase.
• Cloud-shaped cloud revealed to be cloud.
• Pensioner foils trousers thief.
• Babysitter uses Craigslist without adequate training.

Also revealed: We read a review (of a supermarket)...

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LA Episode 136: Like an Innuendo but with Lewd Anti-Religious Connotations

The most trusted name in local news: Local Anaesthetic is a podcast exploring strange and funny local stories from across the UK (and occasionally the world...) including listener submitted contributions.

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Stories this week include:

• Heritage railway shunted into corner over position on hardcore porn film.
• Woman sees nothing through window.
• Local vicar unmasked as renegade street artist.
• Cafe attempts to regain license by agreeing to curtail adult nights and install indoor toilet.

Also revealed: Rob is exonerated...

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