Well one thing that happened that day was that the South African embassy was being cleaned,and was covered in scaffolding. An adventurous individual managed to build an incendury device from cleaning materials left by the cleaners, climbed the side and heaved it through a window. setting a room alight. (strangely this didn't make the papers at the time) cue much activity by the servants of the regieme who managed to extinguish the problem. The miscreant was leapt upon by the police and beaten quite badly in a van before being hauled off the station. When It came to court, even though the police had the entire sequence of public events on film, it turned out that they had made a blunder in the recording of the evidence and the Judge discharged him with no case to answer. Following on from this, having been found not guilty he took the police to court for assult and was paid in the region of £20,000. The inspector who delivered the check delivered it with the warning that he had best leave london, as if he didn't he was to be almost permanently followed by the brave boys in blue till they had arreested him for enough to make up for it in their eyes.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.