Author Topic: The Son of David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) is an idiot (Read 536 times)

Elano · « **on:** December 12, 2010, 05:00:07 AM »

A history student swinging on a famous landmark of England with so much history behind it. What an idiot.

The son of Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour has apologised for climbing on to the Cenotaph during Thursday's tuition fees demonstration.

Charlie Gilmour, 21, a history student at Girton College, Cambridge, could be questioned by police after he was photographed swinging from a flagpole on the monument. A 19-year-old has already been questioned about damage to the Cenotaph.

Mr Gilmour said he was "mortified" by his "moment of idiocy". He added that he wanted to express his "deepest apologies for the terrible insult to the thousands of people who died bravely for our country", and said he did not realise what the monument was.

The musician adopted Charlie upon marrying his mother. "I feel nothing but shame," Charlie Gilmour added. "My intention was not to defile the Cenotaph. Running along with a crowd of people who had just been violently repelled by the police, I got caught up in the spirit of the moment."

Pink Floyd famously sang, "We don't need no education" in their 1979 smash hit Another Brick In The Wall.

K.Dub · « **Reply #1 on:** December 12, 2010, 05:17:15 AM »

Cool story.

Leggy Hendrix · « **Reply #2 on:** December 12, 2010, 06:02:27 AM »

idiots like this mean students have now lost a lot of the public sympathy that they had built up during the whole tuition fee debate...this shit just undermines the whole point