Oi Polloi

No.149

Published: Fri Mar 08 2013

Second Blood Part One

Even in the fashion-forward metropolis of Manchester, you’ve got to be careful what you wear… In the time it took for this chap to get off the tram and wander a few paces down the road, he’d already attracted the attention of the dibble. “With that high-quality jacket and the way you look, you’re heading for trouble here, buddy. We don’t want people like you in our town — drifters.” Whereas some people would kick up a fuss, resist arrest, escape from their cell, hide in the woods, dispatch a helicopter, murder a bumbling team of police deputies and inadvertently kick-start a film franchise, our protagonist decided to admit defeat, head back home and get changed…

Continued in Deck-Out No.150