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'Campus's most hated man' assaulted in Tang Hall

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Thursday, 13th March 2008
The student journalist who calls himself "campus's most hated man" has been violently assaulted in Tang Hall.

Adam Thorn and two friends were attacked while walking back from the Black Bull quiz at 12:30am.

He said: "We stepped onto the road politely to let the man walk past on the pavement and he just turned and started hitting me in the face. There seemed no reason for it whatsoever.

"He smashed me several times in the face before knocking Harry's glasses across the road and giving him a nose bleed.

"It's a scary world out there."

Thorn said that he and his friends were simply walking down the road chatting and had not provoked the attack at all.

"I just stood there completely bemused while he whacked me in the face."

The third friend, who is the author of Vision's notorious "Campus Playboy" column, got away without injury.

The man is described as being of medium build and having short, spiky brown hair.

The three students spent the next day in the police station testifying.

The police have a good idea who the attacker is and are hoping to take him to court.

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#1 Anonymous
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 6:13am

Fletcher-Hall just wont go away will she. Can we no-confidence an ex-YUSU officer? Dan Taylor around?

#2 Richard Mitchell
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 6:28am

I think Adam Thorn and Dan Taylor should have some kind of competition to decide which of them really is "Campus' most hated man".

Suggestions on a postcard...

#3 Dan Taylor
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 6:52am

I'm all for it.

DT

#4 Richard Mitchell
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 6:53am

Ooh The Yorker could put up a poll in the sidebar!

#5 Dan Taylor
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 7:01am
  • Thu, 13th Mar 2008 7:13am - Edited by the author

Slightly biased- Thorn will want to win and being a part of The Yorker...

#6 Anonymous
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 10:46am

can't we just vote dan taylor out of uni?

#7 Anonymous
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 3:54pm

I don't know why but I thought this article was about Dan Taylor...

#8 Chris Northwood
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 4:00pm

Unfortunately Uni isn't like Big Brother... <geordie accent>"Who goes you decide? To vote for Dan, call 09061234561. To vote for Adam, call 09061234562. Calls cost 25 pence, which 15 pence going to help send gap year students to Africa to build water pumps.</geordie accent>

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#11 Henry Smith
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 5:09pm

It wasn't me

#12 Myles Preston
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 5:38pm

Blag

#13 Anonymous
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 5:55pm

We could create two competing facebook groups. Imagine it -

"The Great Facebook Race: Dan Taylor Haters"

and

"The Great Facebook Race: Adam Thorn Haters"

It may be worth disabling the walls and discussion boards though.

#14 Anonymous
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 6:06pm

Weirdly enough, both of those groups already exist in some form (seriously, search it). Although I heard that Thorn set his up himself, so it doesn't really count.

#15 Chris Northwood
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 6:14pm

Well Adam's not the founder, so that may not be true![1]

Although Dan's group[2] is currently winning the "race" 76 vs. 19

#16 Richard Mitchell
Thu, 13th Mar 2008 6:18pm

I don't know about levels of hatred, but they're both attention whores.

I love how this article insinuates that the motive for the attack was based on his own claim of being "campus' most hated man".

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#18 Anonymous
Fri, 14th Mar 2008 5:05pm

I heard the true story was Adam got absolutely battered, whilst the campus playboy did a bit of kung fu then flew off.

#19 Anonymous
Tue, 18th Mar 2008 6:42pm

Hehe. The Derwent JCRC is a fan club of his? They've got a reputation for utter buffoonery and general unintelligence.

Also, it does make me laugh - how frickin' massive are the combined egos of Taylor and Thorn! They seem to want to be the most hated student as if it's a good thing. Better to be hated than not known hmmm? The only quality each of them have which enable them to be known is their hatefulness. Maybe that's what is going on.

And just for the record, Campus Playboy is journalistic toilet paper at the highest level of bog-standardness.

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