Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Crime-fighting milkman to collect MBE dressed as cow

A milkman honoured with an MBE for helping police solve crimes during his rounds has pledged to collect his award dressed as a Friesian cow.

behaviour, foiling burglaries, joyriding youths and drug deals, and blocking car thieves with his milk float.

The milkman also befriends the frail and elderly and assists them during his deliveries to 25 villages around the town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire.


Photo from here.

Mr Fowler will collect the MBE from the Queen at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday in a suit made to resemble a cow by one of his customers.

The 51-year-old, from the village of Grimston, near Melton Mowbray, said: ''My wife Anne is not pleased about me going as a cow but I just want to do something different. Milkmen and women are very quiet people usually, except for me.

''One of my customers sewn white patches on to a suit to make it look like a cow and it did have a tail but the dog chewed it off.''

1 comment:

Atypical Kansan said...

IDK, looks like a bit of a bastard to me... :-P aye didn't say that, no, not at all. He'll be the next serial killer/granny molester though you wait and see! =-O doh! There I go again!