An orchestra short of a pianist?

[redshoot]

This man has been all over the news yet no one recognises him what do you think?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4550069.stm

[MargeB]

Editor: didn't you sign a working hours directive?

[tetherend]

At least, being able to play the piano, he could earn a few bob and pay for his own keep, French, Dutch or any other nationality.

[MargeB]

All he could say, aparently, was 'Le singe est dans l'arbre'.

[Dom Tuk]

acw...your query about french and immigration controls. We are not part of schengen but all nationals of 25 European nations have full rights to live and do as they please in the UK. same as we have the right to go in and out of their country. There is no immigration control as such. So there is really no question of being illegal in this or any other european country. So a french or a pole in the UK can never be illegal.

[MargeB]

You can't come over here and butcher our horses though...

[RevShirls]

Here in Sweden all the newspapers have been reporting daily on the story. It has been reported in most of the papers here that "the piano man" picked up a blue and yellow crayon and drew the Swedish flag and then after that he drew the grand piano. The Swedish embassy in London said that no-one from the unit where the man is has approached them about this man and as far as they know no attempt had been made to communicate with him in Swedish. The Swedish police are currently going through their list of missing persons.

http://expressen.se/index.jsp?a=285535

What I did find odd was that the social worker who is working closely with the piano man said that it was unlikely that this guy would ever be identified. What a strange thing to say.

[VINNY100_2]

Could he be a politician who lost his deposit then his Marbles?