Kiss Mask Guy Revisited

Prelude

The following Blog is actually about an event that happened a few years ago, 31st October 2003 to be exact. I was in work today and was reminiscing about various events to pass the time when I remembered about this moment. It stays in my mind as probably being one of the funniest, strangest and totally fucked up things thats ever happened in my life and in turn thought it might be a good blog. So I'll start out by setting the scene. 3 years ago was, a pretty long time ago I guess. The number one single at the time was "Hole In The Head" By Sugababes. The Malaysian Prime Minister "Mahathis Mohammed" Stepped Down After 22 Years in Power...and I had turned 16, 4 days prior to the event. I was ghetto as ever, most likely puffin on a joint, And was heavily into "Nevermind" By Nirvana...

29th October 2003
So, I cant really remember where I was or what I was doing at this point...or whether if this is even the day it happened on. But it was definately a few days before Halloween. I must have been chillin out at a friends house watching TV and was surrounded by the usual crowd I hung about with. Whatever I was doing, I just about overheard a conversation between Mercer, Si And Ben (or..whoever was there) The jist of it was that apparently all this week there had been some ballbag who'd obviously watched to many horror films going round dressed in a costume beating the crap outta people. He had beaten up 2 people they knew at the same time in Ward Park and they had ended up in hospital. This had actually become an annual thing on Halloween as the year before there was 'S and M Whip Lady' who went around castlepark, and the year after this event there were a group rapist clowns in a van. According to later tales this particular costume was apparently supposed to be the guy from the movie called "The Crow" A movie made in 1994 about a rock singer and his fiancee being brutally killed the night before Halloween, which is also the night before their wedding. Exactly one year later, with the help of a crow, The singer wakes from the dead and takes revenge for his death and the death of the woman he loved. The film mostly became a legend because its protagonist, Brandon Lee, ironically and "by accident" was killed during the shooting. The idea behind dressing up as him made PERFECT sense, although at the time I dont think they had ever seen or heard of this movie. So according to them "He dresses up as a member of fuckin KISS?!" Hence we knew him as "The Kiss Mask Guy."

As I said I wasnt really paying attention and even If I was I probably would have thought it was some bullshit....

31st October 2003
So it was halloween night, a good event to get pissed on. Ofcourse we were all between the ages of 14 - 16 so we couldnt really get into bars, so we settled for the next best thing. The Golf Course! Once again the usual crowd was there Alex,Si,Jay,Mercer,Louise,Ben,Kev,Byers and ex-girlfriend Kirsten. We were just sitting on the grass drinking our carryouts, smoking some J's and it was actually a pretty good night for back in the day standards. Around about 11.30ish we were walking along Gransha Road and we came across this wee alleyway and decided to chill out there for a bit. I was sitting at the far end with Kirsten and we were sharing a joint. We were both pretty fucked off our heads as was everyone else who was there. It was a chilled out situation, but it was about to get disrupted. We were still getting stoned when all of a sudden Mercer shouted "OH FUCK ITS THE KISS MASK GUY" and Him and Si bolted out past us to the other side of the alleyway, dropping their 3 litre bottles of Cider in the process. I was totally fucked and didnt even realise what was going on, I just remember thinking "Where are they off too?" I slowly turned to face the opposite direction and I saw Jay and Alex rolling a joint, also unstartled by what had just transpired and probably as fucked as we were. I slowly got to my feet, stood up and looked back down again only this time I saw someone else. Standing at the end of the alleyway looking straight back at me was this 6 foot tall, motherfucker, with a long leather jacket..and...a "Kiss Mask." He looked pretty scary. If you were sober and in the same position as me you would have probably shit a brick. But ofcourse I was dazed and confused. It must have literally took up to 10 seconds for my brain to register and remember the conversation I heard a few days earlier and another 15 for the delayed reaction. It was when he struck his infamous "serial killer pose" (Raising his head and expanding his arms out) that I uttered the words "oh fuck!" I acted quickly and grabbed Kirsten who was totally fucked on the floor and started running for it, we reached a few yards outside the end of the alleyway when we were joined by Jay and Alex who despite being only 5 metres away from him, DIDNT even see him!! In a full scale whitey mode we called Si's Mobile to see where Him and Mercer had went to...Now..Si and Mercer arent exactly athletes...but...they were so freaked out that they ran a mile to our friend Lois's house within LITERALLY 5 minutes!!! Soon enough we joined them safely. We thought about informing the police...but then we realised that if we called saying "We were being chased by a guy with a kiss mask on" On halloween night - they would send the men with the white jackets on us most likely. So the jist of it all is that - luckily with my quick initative we all avoided a heavy beating...

1 Week Later....
Alex & I were once again on the piss (and stoned with Alexs homemade pipe) In the midst of walking around senseless in Ward Park around 12am we decided we were up for a ruckus...our victim? The Kiss Mask Guy! We rummuged round some place and found a 2 by 4 piece of wood (like the ones Cactus Jack wrapped Barbwire round) and a metal pole. We then began our mission to find the cunt. We knew that most of his victims were around ward park so we decided shouting and taunting him with phrases such as "Oh look at me...I dress as gene simmons...im such a dickhead!!" and altering the kiss song "I like to rock n roll all night and party every day" to "I like to beat up kids all night and rape them every day" Looking back it...probably wasnt the smartest idea...He probably would kicked both our asses anyway lol. But the thing that weirded us out most was that around 1am we saw this guy walking around ward park with a kitchen knife...that was our cue to leave...So in conclusion...Bangor..is a pretty weird place with..lots of weird people...and whatever happened to the kiss mask guy???...I Think he got his knees done in by the UDA =)