CCTV catches lads after night out - fixing bike rack
It's a clip that turns accepted wisdom on its head - CCTV footage of a group of lads after a night out in an English town, hanging about outside the local kebab joint.
But instead of getting lairy and/or finding themselves in a scrap, this bunch of community-minded fellas spied a nearby bike rack in a state of disrepair - and set about fixing it.
The five revellers had been queuing for kebabs outside a takeaway in Boston, Lincolnshire, at 3am when one of them spotted the thick metal hoop that had been bent out of place when a car reversed into it.
They were filmed by the council wrestling with the bike rack, which was almost on the ground, and bringing it into an upright position before celebrating with their friends with high fives.
It took them about 13 minutes to repair the bike station, which had been damaged some weeks before.
Peter Hunn, principal community safety officer at Boston Borough Council, said: “We recorded the whole sequence. At first two lads had a go and then encouraged others to help.
“At one point five were pushing and pulling. To look at the bike rack now you would hardly know it had been damaged.
“The night-time economy is not all about bad lads doing bad things.”
