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Black Maria
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Black Maria
a police van for transporting prisoners


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There were five police cars, three black marias and a helicopter.
I don't mean the sort that sees beer bottles smashed and Black Marias screeching around the city centre - although anything could happen at our office party.
Why weren't they joined by ropemakers, undertakers, cigarette firms (they did a cushy line in last requests) and those macabre hordes who, for generations, had risen at dawn and clattered the sides of black marias en route to the noose, because they enjoyed the sport?
 
 
 
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