The "Muscle Man"

fuz · 26 Oct 2006 at 14:01

Now, I very rarely start threads on random news stories, but this is too good to miss...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6087922.stm

A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police confirmed an interim order had been granted until 23 November. Under the terms of the order Arobieke cannot touch, feel or measure muscles or ask people to do squat exercises in public.

Sorry but LOL, I wonder what persuasion tactic he employed to force members of the public into this....

Nazbit · 26 Oct 2006 at 14:02

I know, I saw this earlier.

What a very very odd person. How do you just go up to someone, "excuse me, can I feel your muscles please?"

:confused:

Burnsy2023 · 26 Oct 2006 at 14:04

Bizzare indeed.

Burnsy

Liverpool-Lad · 26 Oct 2006 at 14:21

Sorry guys, those rippling muscles were just too much temptation!

cleanbluesky · 26 Oct 2006 at 14:22

Squat for meh, baby!

Bill101 · 26 Oct 2006 at 14:27

I seem to know the name Purple Aki from years ago, I wonder if it's the same bloke who used to wander around **.
Still you cannot blame him with all those scallies walking around in track suits, he must think they are all fitness fanatics

AJUK · 26 Oct 2006 at 15:11

I heard this story on the radio earlier and I must confess that it made me LOL. What a frootloop, it was the asking people to do squats that sealed it for me.

Calum · 26 Oct 2006 at 15:17

LOL - surely with the time he spent asking people if he could feel their muscles, he could've done some weights and got his own guns to admire all day long!

fatiain · 26 Oct 2006 at 15:20

Purple Aki was knocking around in Liverpool when I was up there in '92. He never asked to feel my muscles

Mind you I was about 3 times the size of him....

^TANK^ · 26 Oct 2006 at 15:24

cleanbluesky said:
Squat for meh, baby!

KizZ · 26 Oct 2006 at 16:16

Nazbit said:
What a very very odd person. How do you just go up to someone, "excuse me, can I feel your muscles please?"

^^

Liverpool-Lad · 26 Oct 2006 at 16:18

fatiain said:
Purple Aki was knocking around in Liverpool when I was up there in '92. He never asked to feel my muscles Mind you I was about 3 times the size of him....

You must look like Giant Haystacks then, he is a big guy.

Liverpool-Lad · 26 Oct 2006 at 16:19

'He may have been as far as Newcastle upon Tyne, where he questioned a young Neil Casson with his infamous line, "Hey! Do you work out?!". Neil Casson, once a world class table tennis player as not been the same since Purple Aki felt more than his 'muscles'. "I don't feel like a man anymore...", he stated to the police. '

cdcopyman · 26 Oct 2006 at 16:34

i recall purple aki when i was younger , seen him a few times , scary bloke , big lad , went to a lot of the gyms throughout the NW, :eek:

found a pic on tinternet

iJedi · 26 Oct 2006 at 16:48

I remember the name purple aki from when i was at school, i always thought it was some urban myth passed on down the generations!

ZuG · 26 Oct 2006 at 21:23

I remember him when growing up in St Helens. He was a massive and scary bloke. Everybody had heard of 'purps'.