Bermuda Shorts: The Hidden Side of the Richest Place on Earth

By T.C. Sobey

Book Overview

Reprints more than three hundred newspaper articles and letters to the editor, many of them unintentionally funny, from Bermuda's Royal Gazette, offering a glimpse of Bermuda's unusual and insulated... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156980060X
• ISBN13: 9781569800607
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Barricade Books
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

An entertaining, eye-opening read

In the course of reading this book (which I could hardly put down) I constantly alternated between hysterical laughter and awe/disbelief! Sobey has collected some very amusing newspaper articles that show those of us in the rest of the world what Bermuda is like underneath it all. In a country where there is so little major crime, the most petty things become huge issues. And all are reported very, very thoroughly in the newspaper. And the public interest stories make me think they have a lot of slow news days in Bermuda! Some examples: --The man who returns a pair of socks to the store that he bought 48 years ago (and the clerk exchanged them!!); --The case of the man accused of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, because he couldn't stay on his horse. The judge threw it out, claiming the last time he looked the horse was an animal, not a vehicle!--The couple who wake up to find a strange man in the bed with them.People go to court (and often to prison) for stealing milk, a glass of club soda, beef....they break windows regularly, and many "criminals" claim alcoholism as a mitigating circumstance.One of the funniest things in the book (to me) are the letters to the editor at the end of each chapter. You think the newspaper writers are funny? Wait til you see what the citizens write!!I'm on my way to Bermuda for a week, and I must say I'll look at things a little differently after reading this book. Not in a bad way, of course......