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Rain – The Beatles
First of all, it was huge warm drops that made the off-white concrete where we stood dark, then sheets of water that turned cold, then freezing. We were all soaked in seconds. Police and thieves all equal under God’s sky.
Drains filled and overflowed fast, until the car park was like a lake, and I had to turn my face sideways to avoid being drowned. Twitchy wasn’t so lucky. He was yapping so much, the copper next to him put his boot on his neck and forced his face into the flood. He came up coughing and retching, but at least he shut up. Officers appeared behind us, we were dragged to our feet, cuffed and read the old, old story of what we could and couldn’t do, and what we had been arrested for, then each of us was put in the back of different unmarked cars, which
