Howlett takes tomfoolery to a new level

It's time to break the silence on that little tournament going on in France. I heard one of the funniest things ever on saturday..Hard man Jerry Collins being compared with a chocolate..the 'Top Deck'. Speaking of the world's best, they gone and it is ours for the taking, but they really do everything at 100%.

 

All Black star Doug Howlett's Tuesday-morning arrest by London police has been put into perspective after it was revealed that the winger and some of his Kiwi team-mates racked up a whopping £12,500 bar tab at Heathrow's Hilton Hotel.
 

According to London's Daily Telegraph newspaper, Howlett and some of his All Blacks team-mates - who were knocked out of the World Cup by France at the weekend - had been in the hotel's foyer bar for some time, where they racked up their monstrous bill.

Howlett - the leading try-scorer in New Zealand's Test history - allegedly then went outside where damage was done to two cars.

One Hilton Hotel staff member - who refused to be named - told the Telegraph: "There were about five to seven players drinking in the bar. They looked as if they were pretty down in the dumps after they lost and they ran up £12,500 bar bill over several hours.

"It wasn't just them, it was other members of the squad as well and it included food.

"They were behaving themselves while they were in the bar, but then for some reason, a couple of them decided to go outside and that was where it all kicked off.

"I heard they were bouncing up and down on several cars parked just outside the hotel and that was when we phoned the police."

Howlett was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning, before being released on bail. He will be allowed to return to New Zealand only once the conditions of his bail have been met.

To his credit, however, Howlett owned up to everything, labelling it as "tomfoolery" gone wrong.

 

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Ok seriously now, this looks a little bit spiced up, but join me in a little maths lesson with some forex thrown in.

12 500 British pounds = 174 491.863 South African rands

(i just typed in '12500 pounds in rands' in google search line...try it!)

 

They say 5-7 members of the team, plus a few more..lets put it at 15.

They say they had a bit of food, lets throw some bar snacks in, pretzels, burgers, slapchips.. sorry, FRENCH fries. These are big boys, maybe woodcock was there, put them all down for R2000 worth of food each.

Remember london is expensive, lets be ridiculous and put it at R200/drink (hard to get steinlager that far from christchurch).

so now to add up

175000-

30 000 (2 grand worth of grub each)

= 145000/R200 (price per drink)

725/15 (squad members there)

= 48 drinks/8 (they had been there..sometime)

=6 drinks per hour (piece of piss, really)

 

So that's all doable, just average it out so the big boozers (ie. all the maoris) could be making up for the pretty boy pansies (ie. carter/kelleher)