The PowerUp hose & reel from Waterworks impresses Brads Dad.
HOSE LAUGHING NOW? Dad is delighted with his generous Father’s Day present from his son – but there’s a catch. Serial prankster Brad Holmes is at it again - and this time it's his window cleaner dad who's on the receiving end. Brad Holmes is at it again – and this time, it’s his dad who’s copped the short straw.
In a video posted to his Facebook page, Brad, 24, presents his father with a generous gift for Father’s Day. He explains to his unsuspecting pa that the “first electric hose-reel wind up thing” from Waterworks Window Cleaning is meant to help him with his work. Brad says: “As it’s Father’s Day I thought I’d treat you, make your life a bit easier.”
Chuffed to bits with his new toy, Brad’s dad exclaims: “B****y hell, that’s cool as you like isn’t it? Thanks mate.” After he’s had a play, the pair then climb into the front of the van, where Brad’s dad thanks his son again for his kind gift. He gushes: “It’s f*****g handy that, going to make my job 20 times f*****g easier, you know that don’t you?
“F*****g brilliant. Didn’t have to get that though, could have just got me a card, that would have been alright.” Brad tells him it worked out at around £349 plus vat, to which his dad replies: “You soppy c*** you didn’t have to spend that much did you?” It’s then Brad drops the bomb that he didn’t. When his confused dad asks who did, Brad explains: “You paid for it.” He then informs his furious father that he used his credit card, warning him: “You shouldn’t leave it lying around.”
Incensed, Brad’s dad goes off on one of his infamous sweary rants, calling his son all the names under the sun. It’s only at the very end that Brad puts him out of his misery, telling him: “I’m joking you p****, I got it.”
Brad’s videos, which often features his dad and his girlfriend Jenny, have a huge online following.
Last month, Brad played a cruel trick on Jenny which involved rubbing chilli on her tampon during her time of the month. Despite the cruel stunt receiving over 19,000 likes and 12,000 comments, the ruthless trick sparked outrage, with many accusing Brad of over-stepping the mark.
Window cleaner, Brad Holmes and girlfriend Jenny Davies
Girlfriend’s general knowledge quiz fail: She’s entertained millions with her curveball answers to simple general knowledge questions. And now Jenny Davies is getting used to life as an internet superstar. The Facebook clip of the 22-year-old, from Fratton, giving her daft answers swept social media being shared internationally.
And the brains behind the video, her boyfriend 24-year-old Brad Holmes, a window cleaner from Southampton, has discovered a hidden talent for blogging and social media marketing. Jenny, a former City of Portsmouth Girls’ School pupil, said: ‘A couple of months ago Brad was asking me questions and he realised that some of my answers were appalling. ‘He made the video and it went viral. It got more than two million hits so he thought he would make another one at the end of the year, but that one has gone even more crazy.’
Brad posted the video on a Facebook page called ‘Brad’s Dad’ that he had set up to show clips of his dad ranting at work. The clip has now been watched nearly 750,000 times since it was posted on January 1, with many people saying they want to see more.
In the clip, Jenny gives her answers with conviction, such as saying she thinks the capital of South Africa is Africa, the creator of Apple is Bill Gates and Winston Churchill discovered America. And Brad says that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to her zany logic. ‘She’s got an explanation for it all which is quite funny. She baffles me sometimes,’ he said.
In the past she’s told Brad she thought you could swim under Britain and that sat navs speak different languages depending what country they’re in. Brad said: ‘I’d never seen anything like it before. ‘She’s got intelligence but there’s no common sense.’
Now the pair, who met because Jenny recognised Brad from his Brad’s Dad Facebook page in a Port Solent pub five months ago, have been stopped in the street by strangers. And they’re in talks with television producers in the hope of making it on to the small screen. But the burning question – is Jenny making it up for the camera? ‘People think I’m putting it on,’ she said. ‘But it’s true. I’m that stupid, ask my friends and family. ‘Even my nan said “where have you got that from?”.’ The latest video...
Brad begins his questions by asking: 'Traditionally how many days of Christmas are there?'
Jenny's answer is: '25. Christmas Day.' 'No,' Brad replies. 'I know what you're thinking, so what about Boxing Day?' She looks confused and replies: '26 then.'
He moves on to asking: 'Where was the battle of Trafalgar?' Jenny replies that it took place in Trafalgar Square and Brad laughs and tells her she's wrong. 'What else would it have been named after, dumbo?' she replies. 'Obviously it’s Trafalgar Square because that’s where it would have been held. Stupid.'
Next up is a geography question: 'What's the capital of South Africa?' But Jenny is wrong again, replying that Africa is the capital. And when asked who founded the technology company Apple, she says that it's Bill Gates.
'On a roulette table if the numbers are zero to 36 how many numbers are there?' Brad continues. Jenny replies: 'I should know this. I used to work in a casino.' But she's wrong again, saying that it's 36. When Brad laughs, she looks annoyed. 'There's 36 numbers on the board,' she says. 'You're saying zero to 36, so it's obviously 36.'
He then poses another geography question, asking: 'Who discovered America?' 'I don't know,' she says. 'Winston Churchill? How would I know who discovered America? I don't even know who discovered England.' He tries another simple geography question, saying: 'How many countries are in the UK?' 'One,' Jenny replies. 'Don't try to catch me out Brad. One, because we're one United Kingdom. You think I'm stupid.'
So he leaves geography behind and asks: 'If you play football for West Browmich Albion which city are you in?' 'West Brom,' she replies. 'Why are you laughing? We live in Portsmouth and we've got Pompey football club. 'You're from Southampton and you've got Southampton football club. So West Bromwich Albion are going to live in West Brom.'
When asked how many millimetres there are in 100cm, Jenny looks baffled. 'How many what?' she says. 'I don't even know what a millimetre is?' 'What is the Bermuda Triangle?' Brad continues. 'A triangle,' she says. 'I don't know. A triangle in the muda - whatever it's called.'
The video got a mixed reaction from fans, with some saying it was hilarious and others criticising Brad for posting the video.
Man watched where householders kept their cash while doing his round: The customers of window cleaner Stephen Garner probably thought he would keep an eye out for burglars as he did his round. But little did they know he was checking where his clients kept their cash so he could come back and clean out more than their double glazing.
The dad has now been sent to prison for three years and four months after stealing from three of his customers and forcing his way into 88-year-old Mary Surrey’s home before fleeing when she looked up from her bed to see him standing in the doorway. Charlie Gabb, prosecuting at Southampton Crown Court, said the 36-year-old used “the guise and cover of his window cleaning business”. “It was clearly the means by which he came upon these houses and did what he did,” he added.
Garner, of Northam Road, Southampton, had been cleaning the windows of Ysobel Purkis home in Hordle, near Lymington, for more than two years and it was his fingerprints found on a money box from which £420 had gone missing on June 17 this year, the court heard. “She trusted him,” Mr Gabb said. “She made the mistake of allowing him to see her going into a room to collect cash and emerging from that room and paying him. That told him there was cash in the house and that’s where she kept it.”
Another customer, teacher Suzannah Mclean, found the £60 she had left on her worktop at her Lymington home was missing after witnesses saw Garner visit on November 10, Mr Gabb said. “She trusted him too. He looked through the window and saw the money and walked into the kitchen before making a very hasty exit,” he said.
Mr Gabb told the court the crimes put Garner in breach of a community order of unpaid work imposed on January 5 for stealing from a handbag on the kitchen table of a window cleaning customer aged in her 80s last year. Garner admitted breaching the community order and the three new burglary charges.
David Lyons, defending, said his client wanted to make a “sincere, unconditional and abject apology” to Mrs Surrey, who was in court. Mr Lyons cited Garner’s “chequered late youth” and his fall into depression as well as a “toxic” mix of irregular use of anti-depressants and drinking as factors in the crimes. “He’s thrown his business away, his relationship and his liberty,” he said.
Judge Derwin Hope said Garner had 18 previous offences and had “abused the trust” of his customers. “It’s not just the money you stole but the manner in which you acted,” he said. Garner was given three years for each of the three burglaries but with those sentences to run at the same time. He received an extra four months for breaching the community order he was serving for theft from a house and two counts of making false representation last year.
