Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Boston!
My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Anna Chasinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go!
So, starting with fact number one, and that is my fact number one,
we actually, we played a little bit of the Stars and Stripes theme tune,
theme tune the Stars and Stripes theme tune, as I believe you call it, okay the national anthem,
we actually got sent a fact before the show on this subject by Gadget Gav who said that in Boston
if you start singing or playing the national anthem you have to then go on with it all the way to the end on paint of a hundred dollar fine,
so if you wouldn't mind just, as far as I know the lyrics, great theme tune though guys, honestly.
Okay, it is time for fact number one and that is my fact,
my fact this week is
that the first criminal in Boston to be sent to the stocks was the man who'd actually built the stocks and he was found guilty of overcharging for the building of those stocks.
This is a wonderful fact,
this was back in 1639 and it was a guy called Edward Palmer and it's exactly as the fact is on the tin,
it's a guy who did the labour and when he went to invoice, he invoiced for one pound,
13 shillings and seven pence and they thought that was unacceptable,
so immediately once it was open he was the first person charged.
He got fined five pounds as well didn't he, so he got fined three times more than he charged for them.
And so he had to go and be put in the stocks for, it was an hour,