I got this email today, and it seems that a lot of you also did:

"Dear Buffalo Bill,
We hope this message finds you well and enjoying your weekend. We're
writing from a Los Angeles television production company, Pilgrim
Extreme. We're currently producing an episode of "In Harms Way", which
is a show that features risky and challenging businesses/jobs. We're
looking to feature push bike messengers in London and we were referred
to you. We have a rather aggressive production schedule and we're
looking to shoot within a little over a week. With that said, we'd
love to talk with you to discuss our project and the possibility of
featuring you, your company and your companies messengers in our hour
long episode.
We're available via e-mail and phone this whole weekend. Please let us
know if you see this projects as something you would want to know more
about, especially since it would give you excellent exposure.
Looking forward to your timely response.

Thank you for your time.

Cheers,

Camille, Gia, & Jody


Gia Galligani, Camille Curry, and Jody
In Harms Way"

I strongly suggest that no-one has anything to do with this lot. A decent pay-day for a couple of messengers will in no way compensate the potentially bad consequences for our friends in the States. Unless we are talking of 10s of thousands of pounds for the LCEF. And even then, what's the point? "Excellent exposure"...

Do you think we are stupid?

I used to refer to my riders as pushies, but after catching myself on the radio telling everyone to "shutup while I talk to my pushy" I stopped.

i used to call my controller sweet cheeks, reuters city circuit was essentially a flirting contest between the riders and control room... or was that just me?

is this herbie spamfuck's docu? i'll do it for 5 grand, my girlfriend needs money for her masters, fuck the ethics of it.

YES!!! whore yourself for me sleepy - do iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

but it's 9.5K i need, remember..?

dear productions company - he's photogenic, i promise!!!!

I got 3 more emails from people interested in making a TV doc about couriers.

Here's one of the them:


"Hi Bill

We spoke last Friday, but I thought I’d write to you as well, I work for a TV production company called XXXX Films, www.XXXXfilms.com we’re renowned for making sensitive and insightful documentaries, most notably the Emmy and Bafta award winning The XXX XXXXX XXXX XXXX XXX for Channel 4.

I’d like to ask your advice; I’m interested in making a fun and insightful documentary for Channel 4 about bicycle messengers, showing how you’re a tight-knit community, but most of all I want to show you’re passion for bikes and especially racing or alley-cat racing. Firstly do you think a film would be well received among messengers? Would some people be up for being in the film? And how regularly do ally-cat races happen? Are there any coming up?

If you ever fancy having a chat during your lunch break, let me know, I work in the XXXXX in Shoreditch.

Cheers

XXXX "

I did a little search for www.XXXXfilms.com and got some shocking results.

I think someone's got the wrong end of the stick, as it were. I wouldn't mix with these people, Bill.






Oh, wait.

Ah...

Is 4 X's like approaching 2girls1cup territory?