Westminster, London. United Kingdom. John Henries had spent a relaxing weekend at his bolt-hole in Hampshire before returning to London on Monday morning for another week of work. Little did he know what awaited him. Having shared the journey to Waterloo with a neighbour, he had enthusiastically discused his gardening activities of the previous weekend. Being a keen horticulturist, he had gone into some detail regarding the rhodedendron infestation he had been tackling. Henries explains, "The problem with these blighters is that the roots get under everything else and effectively suffocate all around them". As any knowledgeable gardener will be aware, this is a perennial problem for anyone with a green finger or two. Little did Henries know that what he did that weekend would have such far reaching consequences.

During his journey into work, Henries was telling his neighbour, with great relish, about how he had been working hard all weekend to eradicate the annoying problem.

Henries elaborated, "Who would have thought that the term 'Rhodey bashing' could have been so misunderstood and cause so much trouble. I used to spend endless summer days Rhodey bashing, with the blessing and encouragement of my parents". Unbeknown to Henries, Daven Mickel was listening to his conversation in the seat opposite. Being a keen twitterer and champion of equal rights he felt that he had to act to bring the events of the weekend into the public consciousness. And act he did. Using the popular social networking site he managed to attract over a thousand people to the front of Henries office by 1pm the same day. Henries recounts what he saw when he tried to step out to get a sandwich, "It was unbelievable, I stepped out to get a sandwich and got pelted with eggs. I looked up to see an enormous crowd of people who are all wearing t-shirts with my face on them above various slogans. God knows how they managed to get them printed so quickly. I didn't know what to do, I panicked and reacted instinctively, punching who I thought was the closest protester to me in the face. In retrospect this was not an altogether well thought out act, as it turned out to be an eighty five year old woman who had been trying to make her way past the protest. I then decided the best thing I could do was get back in the office".

After the pensioner was revived by a small group of protesters, things turned ugly. The police arrived and tried to disperse the crowd. However, on finding out what the protest was about they decided they should arrest Henries for inciting racial hatred. They were also keen to speak to him about the assault on the pensioner, who it transpired, had only gone out to buy a tin of spam and was "trying to mind her own business". Mickel explains how the feeling was on the front line, "This guy had enraged me, talking about Rhodey bashing with such pride on the train. The people from Rhodes are human beings, and have just as much right not to get bashed as you or me. I remember Henries commenting to his friend that 'the little buggers get everywhere, I'd poison them if I could but you just have to bash their heads in with a stick', it's disgusting".

After some persuasion the Police came to realise that the whole thing was a misunderstanding, PC Paul Swanson takes up the story. "I must admit, alarm bells did start to ring when we got to the offices and found they belonged to the United Nations. On further investigation we found that Mr Henries actually won the Nobel Peace Prize three years ago for his work on cross cultural international relations. It's really quite funny when you think about it, obviously it wasn't quiet so funny for Mr Henries who spent the night in West End Central Police station before we managed to clear the matter up".

Even once the misunderstanding had been explained to the twelve remaining protesters the following morning there was a break away group calling themselves the Ethical Treatment for Plantlife, who still felt Henries had a case to answer. Joel Framer, self declared head of the ETP was adamant that Henries was pure evil, likening the Nobel Prize winner to Hitler, as he clearly had a final solution for all plants. Framer, "Plants are people too, yeah? They have thoughts and feelings and everything". Fortunately, the Police were not in agreement with him and took the opportunity to arrest him as he lit up a large joint. As he was bundled into a Police van he screamed "Cannabis is my friend yeah. Being burnt alive is his destiny, we're helping each other reach nirvana". He was about to say something else when one of the attending Police officers accidentally beat him repeatedly with his truncheon.

Ever embracing the zeitgeist at TPC, we set up our own Twitter account and contacted a number of the protesters involved, a common theme of the tweets we got back was that they didn't really care about the people from Rhodes. However, what we did learn was that Twitter is generally quiet in the morning and most of them felt if they didn't come along they would face another boring morning infront of Trisha.