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NORTH WEST PANIC AS MAGIC LANTERN GOES OUT |
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05-11-09 |
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THE latest stage of the digital TV switch over caused havoc in the North West yesterday as terrified viewers feared the death of the 'Unblinking Eye' that sits in the corner of their living room.
 'THEY HAVE KILLED IT!'
In Ellesmere Port one bloodied woman screamed, 'The Eye is dead! The Eye is dead!' while repeatedly head-butting the pavement.
Meanwhile father-of-two Martin Bishop, from Chester, loaded his children into the back of a friend's Land Rover, uncertain if he would ever see them again.
He said: "The flickering magic lantern that lights our lives is no more, taking with it our hopes and dreams.
"My only thought now is the survival of my children. Although I have made them carry cyanide pills in case they decide they simply can't go on without Cbeebies."
In Preston, the BBC's armoured vehicles took to the streets as production assistants with loudhailers and semi-automatic weapons urged civilians to stay calm, not eat each other and buy a Freeview box with a SCART lead.
But rioter Nathan Muir, who was hurling a paving slab through the window of a fishing tackle shop, said: "They say it's something called 'dig-i-talisement'. Liars! They've killed the Eye!"
He added: "If this isn't sorted before Cash In The Attic I'm driving a truck full of weedkiller into the leisure centre."
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