The secret society of bus shelter cleaners

The secret society of bus shelter cleaners struck today at victoria road in Ulverston. At 9.30 am on Sunday morning when there were very few members of the public up and about the S.S.B.S.C. struck and began to clean the grime from the bus shelter to the left of the kiosk. Only one little old lady was witness to this dastardly assault on this eyesore that had blighted the quiet market town of Ulverston. With squirty bottles of windowleen they began the awesome task of ridding the town of its filthy image.
Unbeknown to the minions at Cumbria county council this anarchistic crew set about removing years of accumulated grime, without any regard for insurance or health and safety regulations. They scaled step ladders and wielding deck brush and scraper set about the monumental task of cleaning one of the two shelters that had been neglected for years and years.

I can reveal a certain amount of collusion from the Coronation Hall and the red rose club who unwittingly supplied the S.S.B.S.C. with hot water to carry out this dastardly deed.

By 11am the public had started to gather waiting for buses to take them to the far reaches of our fair county. Little could they know that the perpetrators of this deed were not engaged in community service orders but were doing this as a selfless act of community pride in their town. Only the members of Ulverston in Bloom had any idea that these were members of the anarchistic S.S.B.S.C. group, and they had also colluded in the deed by supplying a step ladder to carry out this act. Although only a stones throw away, tending the flower beds of the rose garden they turned a blind eye to the actions of this crew, only stopping now and then to pass comment on the improvement to the state of the shelters, but being careful not to draw attention to themselves less they were implemented in any way.

Buses came and went, passengers alighted, but few suspected that the shelters were being cleaned by a rogue team of non council employees. No-one even questioned them or dared to pass comment and by 12.30 it was done. The grime had been removed and although the perspex windows still retained the daubing and scratchings of the youths of our town the shelter was at least restored to a cleaner and brighter semblance of it former self thanks to the actions of this hit squad of the S.S.B.S.C. group.

We will be monitoring this part of the town with CCTV to make sure the culprits of this clean up are brought to book in the future should they chance to carry out this kind of operation again.