Odd mods clash with Rockers in Tonbridge High Street....

This was the scene last Sunday when the Old Bill were forced to intervene as the aptly-named Odd Mod Squad clashed with a gang of Rockers outside Retro 66 Barbers in Tonbridge High Street last Sunday in a flashback to the 1960s violent altercations along Brighton Seafront! Or at least you would have been forgiven for thinking that. Actually what happened was that motorists passing by couldn't help stopping to view some of the lovelist pieces of tin this side of Turin which had gathered for a scooter club outing. Traffic was held up for all of two minutes, which apparently caused an "angry" motorist to nearly lose himself with road rage and call the police. (Obviously this guy had listened to Teddy Boy Rock n Roll bands and not The Who and the Small Faces in his youth!) The close circuit, Big Brother, cameras picked them up and the boys in blue were there in the time it takes to pull on a parka coat with a target on the back and adjust your spare wing mirror. Despite the slight hold up of traffic there was, I'm told, good humour all around as the scooter club were given ten minutes "to disappear", which they eventually did; but only round the corner as far as the Ivy House beer garden. There is no truth in the rumour that one of the police officers was heard to remark, in echoes of the film Quadraphenia, "What's wrong 'as yer mavva's 'airdrier broken daan?" The scooter nutters actually have a great web site if you want to see more piccies and stuff....