Penny For The Guy Success
In a Citizen exclusive we can reveal the local residents have managed to successfully raise a lot of money by ‘giving a penny for the guy’.
It has apparently become a tradition for some youths to go around before bonfire night with a flammable effigy of a locally disliked figure.
We caught up with one of the youths behind it and he said, ”We’ve been taken aback by how popular this year’s ‘guy’ has been. In previous years it has been less successful. The guy is stuffed full of copies of the free papers, and clothes we picked up around 3am Saturday morning.”
He continued, “The guy has been around town using a wheelbarrow we, erm, borrowed, and some residents thought our guy was more real the who he represents. A few did offer to give us extra money if we made a substitution and put the real person on the bonfire, though sadly we had to decline.”
The Citizen did attempt to get reaction from the local councillor concerned about the fundraising, though no-one was available to give an official comment. However one councillor, wishing to remain annonymous, said, “Well, it may be for a cause, however in a modern era this sort of thing shouldn’t be encouraged, and anyway it looks nothing like me”.
